Data Governance Specialist
Core
Lead enterprise data governance initiatives, define standards and stewardship practices, and drive adoption of governance frameworks across the organization.
Role type
Senior individual contributor data governance specialist
Builds
Enterprise data governance operating models, policies, standards, and stewardship programs
Domain
Energy (midstream/pipelines) + Data Governance
Required skills
Data governance program implementation, data ownership and stewardship practices, metadata management, data quality management, master data management, governance role modeling, workshop facilitation, change adoption, executive communication, decision framing, conflict escalation, glossary and definition management, policy and procedure development, adoption enablement, roadmap planning, business case development
Preferred skills
Experience in midstream energy or asset-intensive regulated industries, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, analytics governance, responsible AI governance
Technologies
Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks
Responsibilities
Lead engagement on approved governance initiatives and build trusted working relationships with subject matter experts, data owners, stewards, decision makers, and executive sponsors. Use workshops, surveys, and working sessions to uncover unclear ownership, inconsistent definitions, data quality concerns, duplicated effort, and manual reconciliation. Turn business challenges into governance requirements and recommendations, advise leaders on decisions, develop the steward community, and escalate unresolved conflicts through the Manager. Facilitate confirmation of accountable data owners and stewards for priority domains, maintain records of ownership, commitments, and escalation paths, and implement the approved governance role model. Facilitate discussions about systems of record, sources of truth, survivorship, data sharing, and hierarchies; document business and architectural considerations and route recommendations to appropriate decision makers. Develop, implement, maintain, and improve governance processes within the approved operating model. Support councils and working groups with decision framing, agendas, materials, action tracking, and decision records. Create and maintain practices for glossaries, definitions, certification, policies, standards, procedures, intake, issue management, and accountability. Evaluate incoming requests for value, risk, readiness, dependencies, and sequencing, and maintain reusable templates and guidance. Lead approved adoption and enablement work, including workshops, communications, learning materials, and practical resources. Help owners and stewards embed governance in existing workflows, monitor adoption, recommend corrective actions, and communicate responsibilities and expected outcomes. Contribute to governance strategy, the multi-year roadmap, maturity model, business cases, funding support, and executive decision materials. Deliver approved initiatives, using a pilot-first approach when appropriate, and report progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes. Partner with architecture, engineering, analytics, AI, information management, security, privacy, platform, and business teams to ensure governance decisions are reflected in relevant catalog, master data, data quality, semantic, and platform capabilities.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC