Data Governance Specialist

Data Governance Specialist

UK

Luxembourg

Ireland

Netherlands

Monday to Friday

Remote

The Data Governance Specialist supports the implementation and ongoing maturity of the enterprise data governance program within a federated operating model. The role partners with business data owners, stewards, and technology teams to establish consistent governance practices, strengthen data ownership and accountability, improve metadata and data quality, and support compliance with privacy, retention, and risk requirements. By coordinating governance activities, facilitating stakeholder engagement, monitoring performance, and promoting adoption of enterprise standards and tools, this role helps ensure data is well-managed, trusted, discoverable, and used responsibly across the organization

Some of the things you will be doing:

Data Governance Program Support

• Support the implementation and maturation of the enterprise data governance framework.

• Assist in developing and maintaining data governance policies, standards, procedures, and operating models.

• Facilitate governance councils, stewardship forums, working groups, and governance-related meetings.

• Track governance initiatives, decisions, action items, risks, and issue remediation activities.

• Promote governance awareness and adoption across business and technology teams.

Data Ownership and Stewardship Enablement

• Partner with business unit leads to identify and document Data Owners and Business Data Stewards.

• Facilitate stewardship onboarding and training activities.

• Clarify governance roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability expectations.

• Coordinate stewardship activities across data domains and business functions.

• Escalate unresolved ownership, accountability, and stewardship issues through appropriate governance channels. 

Metadata and Data Catalog Governance

• Support the development and maintenance of business glossaries, data dictionaries, and governance metadata.

• Establish metadata standards, governance workflows, and quality expectations.

• Coordinate metadata collection and validation activities performed by business and technical stakeholders.

• Monitor metadata completeness and governance compliance.

• Promote effective use of enterprise data catalog capabilities. 

Data Quality Governance

• Support implementation of enterprise data quality policies, standards, metrics, and controls.

• Facilitate identification, prioritization, and escalation of data quality issues.

• Coordinate remediation efforts with business stewards, system owners, and technology teams.

• Track data quality trends, root causes, and corrective actions.

• Report on data quality performance and governance outcomes. 

Policy, Compliance, and Risk Management 

• Support alignment of activities with regulatory, privacy, records retention, and risk management requirements. Support implementation of data classification, retention, and protection requirements.

• Assist with governance assessments, audits, and compliance reviews.

• Maintain governance documentation and evidence required for internal and external audits. 

Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management

• Collaborate with business, technology, analytics, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and risk stakeholders.

• Communicate governance standards, expectations, and program objectives.

• Develop training materials, guidance documents, and governance communications.

• Drive adoption of governance processes and stewardship practices through education and stakeholder engagement. 

Reporting and Metrics

• Define and track governance KPIs and stewardship performance measures.

• Produce governance dashboards, management reports, and executive summaries.

• Monitor governance maturity and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Report governance risks, trends, and and adoption metrics to leadership. 

What technical skills, experience, and qualifications do you need? 

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Business, Information Systems, Data Management, Analytics, Computer Science, or related discipline (equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of formal education).

• Preferred CDMP or comparable data management certification.

• 3-5 years of practical experience in data governance, data quality, metadata management, business analysis, risk management, compliance, records management, or compliance, records management, or a related field.

• Practical experience applying privacy laws such as GDPR and/or CCPA in a corporate environment.

• Practical experience with governance and catalog platforms such as Informatica Data Catalog, Informatica CDGC, Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, or similar tools

• Proficient in SQL to pull, audit and analyze data sets

• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK principles and governance best practices 

• Familiarity with metadata management, business glossaries, data catalogs, and data lineage concepts.

• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to influence without direct authority.

• Strong organizational and project coordination skills.

• Ability to document policies, standards, procedures, and governance requirements clearly and consistently. 

*This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship (e.g., H‑1B, TN, E‑3) now or in the future.

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**The salary range for this specific role will be € 34,599.76 to € 50,254.62 gross per year. The final salary will be determined based on relevant skills, experience, and role scope, in line with our objective and gender-neutral compensation framework.