Data Governance Specialist
Core
Establish data governance, quality, and integrity controls, standards, and processes across the business to ensure data is accurate, reliable, and fit for purpose.
Role type
Data Governance Specialist
Builds
Data products and trusted data/insights for informed decision-making
Domain
Retail / Data Governance & Quality
Required skills
DAMA-DMBOK principles, Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, SQL, Databricks, Data Ingestion, Data Lineage, Unity Catalog
Preferred skills
Stakeholder management, Problem-solving
Technologies
Databricks, SQL, Unity Catalog
Responsibilities
Assess business initiatives and data products to identify governance requirements; Investigate data quality issues using Databricks and SQL to determine root causes; Define data quality rules, thresholds, and monitoring requirements; Assess new data acquisition and ingestion for fitness for purpose; Improve data usability through business definitions, metadata, and lineage; Translate DAMA-DMBOK principles into practical requirements for engineering and business teams; Provide governance input to DPIAs and emerging AI use cases.