Data Governance Specialist

Accountabilities:

• Data Governance Platform Administration: Configure, administer, and enhance Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud and other data governance and catalog platforms to support enterprise-wide governance requirements.

• Operating Model and Workflow Configuration: Customize governance operating models, domains, communities, assets, and workflows to align platform capabilities with business needs and organizational structures.

• Business Glossary and Data Ownership: Develop and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, data ownership models, and stewardship practices to improve consistency and clarity across business domains.

• Metadata Management and Cataloging: Ingest, organize, and maintain technical and business metadata from enterprise systems, ensuring data assets are documented, discoverable, and governed effectively.

• Data Lineage and Impact Analysis: Enable automated and manual data lineage, facilitate impact analysis, and support data certification to improve visibility into data flows, dependencies, and reliability.

• Governance Policies and Compliance: Define and operationalize data governance policies, standards, procedures, and controls that support regulatory obligations and internal compliance requirements.

• Platform Integrations: Manage integrations between governance platforms, cloud data environments, business intelligence tools, and metadata sources to maintain consistent information across systems.

• Data Quality Collaboration: Work with data quality teams to surface relevant data quality rules, metrics, and information within governance processes, supporting trusted and reliable data.

• Stakeholder Engagement and Asset Onboarding: Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to identify, onboard, and govern data assets across multiple domains.

• Training and Adoption: Deliver training and guidance for data owners, data stewards, and platform users to encourage adoption of data governance tools and established processes.

• Continuous Improvement: Monitor governance platform effectiveness, identify gaps in metadata coverage and stewardship, and recommend improvements to operating models, workflows, and governance practices.

Requirements:

• Professional Experience: At least five years of experience in data governance, data management, or a related field.

• Hands-On Platform Expertise: At least three years of practical experience with master data management (MDM) and data governance software, including implementation, configuration, or administration.

• Collibra Experience: Experience configuring and administering Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud in a production environment, including domains, communities, assets, workflows, and governance operating models.

• Data Governance Frameworks: Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, operating models, data ownership, stewardship, and the processes needed to establish effective enterprise governance.

• Metadata and Data Cataloging: Practical knowledge of metadata management, data cataloging, business glossaries, data dictionaries, and technical and business metadata ingestion.

• Data Lineage: Experience implementing or supporting automated and manual data lineage, impact analysis, and metadata traceability across systems.

• Additional Governance Platforms: Familiarity with other data governance and cataloging solutions, including Informatica and DataHub.

• Cloud and BI Integrations: Experience integrating governance tools with cloud data platforms and analytics environments. Familiarity with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Power BI, Tableau, or Looker is an advantage.

• Data Quality Knowledge: Understanding of data quality tools, processes, rules, and metrics, with the ability to collaborate with data quality teams to improve data reliability.

• Regulatory Awareness: Familiarity with relevant data protection and compliance requirements, such as GDPR, CCPA, or SOX, is beneficial.

• Communication and Stakeholder Management: Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to align business and technical stakeholders and explain governance concepts clearly.

• Attention to Detail: A structured, detail-oriented approach to metadata management, documentation, platform configuration, and governance controls.

• Change Management and Collaboration: Ability to encourage adoption of governed data practices, support cultural change, and move cross-functional initiatives forward effectively.

Benefits:

• Remote Work: Fully remote, full-time opportunity based in India.

• Enterprise Data Governance: Opportunity to help build and scale data governance programs and improve how enterprise data is managed, discovered, and trusted.

• Modern Technology Exposure: Hands-on work with leading data governance and catalog platforms, metadata management solutions, cloud data environments, and integration technologies.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with business, data, analytics, and IT professionals on initiatives that connect technology capabilities with organizational objectives.

• Professional Growth: Opportunities to strengthen expertise in Collibra, data governance frameworks, metadata management, data lineage, and enterprise data strategy.

• Meaningful Business Impact: Contribute to improved data transparency, regulatory compliance, data quality, and informed decision-making.

• Inclusive Workplace: Equal employment opportunity and a commitment to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

• Compensation and Additional Benefits: Salary details, healthcare coverage, paid leave, bonuses, and other specific benefits were not provided in the original job description.