Director, Data Governance
Core
Lead the establishment of a comprehensive data governance strategy, operating model, and roadmap to ensure data trustworthiness, quality, and compliance across the organization.
Role type
Director, Data Governance (Strategy & Team Leadership)
Builds
Formal data ownership models, data contracts, event taxonomy, cataloging frameworks, access policies, and automated governance monitoring.
Domain
Healthcare technology / Data Governance / Regulatory Compliance
Required skills
Data governance strategy, team building and coaching, data ownership modeling, data contract definition, event taxonomy design, data quality standards, regulatory compliance (HIPAA/GDPR/CCPA), cross-functional influence, executive communication, AI tool adoption.
Preferred skills
Experience in high-growth environments formalizing governance, healthcare data regulations, IRB-regulated studies or FDA regulatory filings, cloud data platform access control design.
Technologies
Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, data catalog/lineage tools
Responsibilities
Define and lead data governance strategy and roadmap; build and coach a senior team; establish data ownership and stewardship models; define data contracts and event taxonomy standards; set data quality and incident response standards; champion AI-powered governance approaches; partner with GRC/Legal/InfoSec on privacy and compliance; define role-based access policies; embed governance into engineering workflows; develop governance metrics and reporting.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with team leadership