HR Data Governance Senior Manager

Job Description

The Data Governance Senior Manager will spearhead HR data governance initiatives and ensure the integrity, quality, and security of our organization's data assets. The incumbent will be responsible for developing and implementing data governance frameworks, policies, and processes to support our strategic objectives and regulatory compliance requirements. Conduct data governance assessments and audits to identify areas for improvement and mitigate risks related to data management. Oversee the implementation of data governance tools and technologies to support data lineage, metadata management, and data quality monitoring.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops, drives, and communicates the HR Data Governance and Quality Strategy that influences and aligns with the company’s overall Governance goals and vision.

• Draft policies, standards, and guidance related to enterprise Data Governance. Implement and enforces Data Governance standards and policies for areas such as data consistency, quality, privacy, and security; ensures our data assets are reliable, trusted, accessible, understood, and utilized in a consistent, compliant, and meaningful manner.

• Defines critical data elements, monitor key performance and risk indicators for data quality and governance. Assists in remediation across various systems to ensure consistency.

• Performs data analysis to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement within data governance practices.

• Participates in cross-functional projects related to data governance and stewardship and develop recommendations for data management improvements. Assist in the implementation of the Enterprise Data Governance Framework.

• Leads organization-wide awareness and communication of data quality and remediation activities, ensuring seamless implementation. Demonstrates enterprise impact of data quality and governance programs and initiatives.

• Collaborates closely with executive leadership, business partners, and clients to understand their data needs and create appropriate data quality and governance initiatives and prioritize them accordingly.

• Oversees the integration of strong risk and security controls. Ensures compliance to laws and regulations. Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Assists in developing and deploying training for different data roles like data owners, stewards etc. on responsibilities, focusing on the importance of following data governance policies and mitigating risks associated with data handling.

• Assists in managing a central process to capture, prioritize and manage data quality issues across the firm including familiarity with data profiling, rulemaking, workflows, and remediation efforts.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS or related field

• Typically requires 6 years of related work experience leading data governance and/or data quality initiatives with tangible results or the equivalent combination of education and experience

• Demonstrated expertise leading impactful enterprise Data Quality and Data Governance initiatives while successfully influencing cross-functional stakeholders specifically in Human Resources
• Proven background educating, championing and advocating for data governance across all levels in an organization, as well integrating into the company culture
• Executive level presentation and communication skills including the ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing and mitigating data quality issues (e.g., profile, standardize, cleanse, and enrich) and leading deep dive analysis to uncover issues
• Demonstrated expertise in data architecture, master data management, data lineage and data cataloging tools, taxonomy, and integration technologies (ETL, data ingestion and distribution patterns, SQL, NoSQL, large data processing on distributed platforms, data warehousing, R / Python).
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and PowerBI to assist in data analysis and reporting tasks.
• Knowledge of data management tools and software, (e.g. Snowflake and Collibra/Alation or similar tools).
• Demonstrated history of working with various groups and different level of employees throughout the organization to effectively achieve results.
• Strong understanding of emerging technologies, including but not limited to, cloud