Data Governance Lead
Greetings,
We are hiring for the below:
Position: Data Governance Lead
Experience: 7+ Yrs
Work Model: Work from Home in India and if needed should be willing to travel onsite in Abu Dhabi
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days
Mode: Permanent
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Data Governance Lead to design, implement, and oversee enterprise-wide data governance capabilities across a multi-tenant data platform. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in data governance frameworks, metadata and cataloguing systems, data quality management, data privacy, and cross-organizational stakeholder leadership.
This role requires establishing governance policies, defining operating models, collaborating with both technical and business teams, and ensuring consistent, compliant data management practices.
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain a comprehensive data governance framework that includes policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities.
Establish a data governance operating model covering stewardship, ownership, approval workflows, and cross-domain accountabilities.
Define guidelines for data classification, retention, data lifecycle, and privacy-by-design practices.
Coordinate governance councils, working groups, and cross-functional governance activities.
Lead the implementation and adoption of enterprise metadata and cataloguing tools (Purview, Informatica, Collibra, or similar).
Define and enforce metadata standards covering technical, business, and operational metadata.
Implement lineage visibility across ingestion, transformation, analytics, and consumption layers.
Ensure metadata is accurate, complete, and up to date across environments.
Define enterprise data quality dimensions, rules, thresholds, and monitoring processes.
Implement data quality scorecards, dashboards, and automated rule enforcement.
Lead root-cause analysis for quality issues and drive remediation initiatives with data owners and engineering teams.
Establish processes for ongoing measurement of data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and validity.
Define and enforce data access governance, including approvals, segregation of duties, and usage policies.
Ensure data classification, sensitivity tagging, and privacy constraints are adhered to across all domains.
Collaborate with security, privacy, and legal teams to implement compliant data handling practices.
Support audits, compliance checks, and risk assessments.
Develop governance mechanisms ensuring complete isolation between tenant environments, including metadata, access, and quality domains.
Define standardized onboarding and governance workflows for new business units or entities.
Maintain consistency in governance controls across all tenant environments while supporting entity-specific needs.
Act as the primary point of contact for all governance-related matters.
Partner with data engineering, security, analytics, and business teams to ensure governance controls are embedded end-to-end.
Lead workshops, training sessions, and awareness programs to promote data literacy and governance adoption.
Manage feedback cycles and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Develop governance playbooks, policy documents, standard operating procedures, and stewardship manuals.
Create onboarding guidelines for new entities or business domains.
Ensure complete knowledge transfer to internal teams, including governance roles, tools, workflows, and best practices.
Key Skills Requirements
7+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or enterprise data leadership roles.
Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage,cataloguing, and data quality frameworks.
Experience implementing or managing data governance platforms (IDMC, Collibra, Purview, Alation).
Strong knowledge of data management best practices (DCAM, DAMA-DMBOK, CDMC, ISO standards).
Deep understanding of data privacy, data classification, retention, and compliance principles.
Experience working with multi-team or multi-entity governance ecosystems.
Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Certifications
CDMP (DAMA)
DCAM
Certifications in metadata systems.
If interested or any references pls share your resume to abirami.s@beinex.com with Subject line "Data Governance Lead" for further process