Senior Data Governance Engineering Manager

Description
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin Technical Center or Warren GM Global Technical Center three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days].
The Role
At General Motors, data governance enables trusted, secure, and well-managed data products that support analytics, engineering, operations, and business decision-making across the enterprise. This role helps translate governance strategy into repeatable operating practices by aligning policy, stewardship, tooling, and cross-functional execution.
The Senior Data Governance Team Lead is a senior leadership role responsible for driving governance execution across data domains, leading stewardship and operational processes, and improving how teams manage data quality, access, metadata, classification, and compliance. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, privacy, cybersecurity, legal, and platform teams to ensure governance requirements are practical, measurable, and consistently applied.
This role is also expected to strengthen governance adoption through process improvement, automation, metrics, and communication. Success in this position requires strong leadership, sound judgment, and the ability to turn complex governance requirements into clear workflows, accountability, and business outcomes.
What You'll Do
This is a senior team lead position for a candidate who can lead governance work across people, process, policy, and tooling. The ideal candidate can operate across strategic and operational layers, influence stakeholders across functions, and guide teams through governance requirements without losing focus on usability, scale, and business value.
The role combines people leadership, stakeholder alignment, governance operating model design, and measurable execution. It supports enterprise data governance priorities such as stewardship enablement, external and inbound data governance processes, access and metadata standards, data quality monitoring, and governance health reporting.

• Lead and evolve the operating model for data governance across supported teams and domains, including stewardship engagement, issue escalation, standards adoption, and cross-functional coordination.
• Provide day-to-day leadership for governance activities covering policy adherence, metadata management, data classification, access governance, lineage expectations, and data quality practices.
• Partner with business owners, technical stewards, domain teams, privacy, cybersecurity, legal, and platform partners to align governance requirements with business and technical implementation plans.
• Drive execution of governance processes for inbound and external data exchanges, including intake, review, documentation, compliance validation, audit readiness, and lifecycle management.
• Establish and improve governance workflows for onboarding, access setup, control evidence, and ownership alignment so teams can adopt governance requirements with less friction and greater consistency.
• Build and maintain governance metrics, dashboards, and reporting that measure health, compliance, stewardship activity, quality trends, training adoption, and operational outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to automate governance controls, monitoring, and intake processes to improve scale, reduce manual effort, and strengthen consistency.
• Lead governance communications, training, and community engagement efforts to improve clarity, adoption, and accountability across stakeholders.
• Support and guide data stewards by clarifying expectations, improving role effectiveness, and ensuring stewardship activities are tied to practical business and technical outcomes.
• Surface governance risks, gaps, and recommendations to leadership, and help prioritize remediation based on business impact, compliance exposure, and operational need.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 7 to 8 years of relevant experience
• 2+ years of experience leading/developing engineering teams in a platform, data, or marketing technology environment
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, engineering, computer science, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience in data governance, data management, data quality, data stewardship, analytics enablement, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading people, programs, or cross-functional initiatives in environments that require stakeholder alignment and operational accountability.
• Strong understanding of data governance principles including metadata, lineage, access control, classification, privacy, retention, compliance, and stewardship.
• Experience creating or improving governance processes, standards, or control frameworks that support scalable adoption.
• Experience defining metrics, measuring outcomes, and using dashboards or reporting to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex requirements into clear guidance for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and change leadership skills in environments with multiple stakeholders and evolving requirements.
• Lead with ownership and follow-through.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Build trust across business and technical stakeholders.
• Create clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Balance governance rigor with practical execution.
• Develop people, improve processes, and raise the standard for enterprise data management.

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience supporting governance processes for external or inbound data exchanges, contractual data obligations, or regulated data handling.
• Experience with enterprise data governance tooling for metadata, access, data quality, or monitoring.
• Experience designing governance dashboards, scorecards, or operational KPI reporting.
• Experience building training, communications, or adoption programs that improve governance maturity across large organizations.
• Experience working in matrixed environments that require influence across engineering, business, risk, legal, and shared services teams.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
Compensation:

• The expected base compensation for this role is: $125,000 - $175,000. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
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