Data Governance Lead

Role: Data Governance Lead

Full-Time Role

Location: Golden Valley, Minnesota

Work Model: Hybrid

Duration: Permanent

Main Duties/Responsibilities

• Define and operate the data governance policies that support multiple data domains.
• Implement the data governance and master data management vision using MS Purview, Databricks Unity Catalog and Profisee, promoting the role of governance and enforcing policy, while following data governance best practices.
• Develop and communicate Data Governance policies to all relevant stakeholders, and provide training and guidance as needed in concert with our Learning and Development (L&D) team.
• Provide authority for all Data Governance oversight and support for Asset Management to ensure awareness across the organization and drive decisions for data standards and policies.
• Understand various data storage solutions, including extract, load and transform technologies built using our Databricks Lakehouse architecture on MS Azure, working with the Data Engineering team as needed.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and business units to help solve their analytical needs and ensure data quality and consistency.
• Oversee the processes, policies, and standards organizations use to manage their data, and ensure compliance with internal and external regulations and requirements.
• Monitor and measure the effectiveness and maturity of the data governance program, and report on key performance indicators and metrics.
• Identify and implement opportunities for improvement and innovation in data governance.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in data governance, data quality, data management, or a similar role.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, principles, and methodologies.
• Experience with data governance tools, such as data catalogs, data dictionaries, data lineage, data quality, and data security.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and drive change across the organization.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve data issues and risks.
• A passion for data and a desire to continuously learn and improve.
• Comfortable working in a high volume, fast-paced, rapidly changing, results-oriented work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with project management and scrum tools in an Agile environment, especially those in the MS Azure stack (Azure DevOps).
• Experience working with Unity Catalog, MS Purview, and/or Profisee
• Experience working with offshore contractor resources
• Experience presenting data for C-level stakeholders.

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.