Senior Data Governance Engineering Manager
Core
Senior leadership role driving enterprise data governance execution, aligning policy, stewardship, and tooling to ensure trusted, secure, and well-managed data products supporting analytics, engineering, and business decision-making.
Role type
Senior Data Governance Engineering Manager (Team Lead)
Builds
Enterprise data governance operating model, processes, and tooling for data quality, access, metadata, classification, and compliance.
Domain
Automotive / Enterprise Data Governance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Data governance principles, stakeholder alignment, process improvement, metrics definition, cross-functional leadership, change management, data stewardship enablement, compliance validation, automation strategy.
Preferred skills
External/inbound data exchange governance, enterprise data governance tooling, governance dashboard design, large organization adoption programs, matrixed environment influence.
Technologies
Enterprise data governance tooling, dashboards, scorecards, KPI reporting platforms.
Responsibilities
Lead and evolve the operating model for data governance across teams and domains; Provide day-to-day leadership for governance activities covering policy adherence, metadata management, data classification, access governance, lineage, and data quality; Partner with business owners, technical stewards, privacy, cybersecurity, legal, and platform partners to align governance requirements; Drive execution of governance processes for inbound and external data exchanges; Establish and improve governance workflows for onboarding, access setup, control evidence, and ownership alignment; Build and maintain governance metrics, dashboards, and reporting; Identify opportunities to automate governance controls, monitoring, and intake processes; Lead governance communications, training, and community engagement efforts; Support and guide data stewards by clarifying expectations and improving role effectiveness; Surface governance risks, gaps, and recommendations to leadership.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership
