Sr. Director, Data Governance

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Job Overview 
 

The Senior Director of Data Governance leads the enterprise governance strategy to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and trusted for decision-making. This role drives a data-fluent culture by embedding governance into daily workflows and platforms, enabling both operational excellence and innovation. The Senior Director partners with executive leaders and peers across Enterprise Data & Analytics to promote shared standards, responsible access, high-quality insights, and self-service analytics—empowering faster decisions and enhancing the customer experience. 

 

What You Will Do 

 

Define and execute the enterprise data governance strategy aligned with Macy’s business objectives and priority analytics use cases. 

Support the overall Enterprise Data & Analytics strategy by aligning closely with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Business Insights teams—acting as an enabler to ensure governance accelerates delivery, innovation, and value creation. 

Elevate talent across the Enterprise Data & Analytics team by mentoring direct reports, fostering a high-performance culture, and raising the talent bar across teams.  

Partner with business stakeholders to co-create data standards, policies, and definitions that drive alignment and usability. 

Lead Macy’s data catalog, lineage, and quality program, identifying root causes and driving systemic improvements in data pipelines. 

Collaborate with technical teams to define Master Data Management (MDM) strategy and governance, including evaluating opportunities for greater centralization. 

Accelerate key data-driven initiatives by improving data quality and defining success metrics for trusted data use. 

Oversee the identification of data owners and stewards, clarifying roles, and reinforcing accountability. 

Collaborate with architecture and engineering to ensure data platforms and models align with governance frameworks. 

Ensure compliance with legal, privacy, and security policies through proactive engagement and oversight. 

Maintain governance metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure adoption, quality, and business value. 

Advise senior leaders on balancing governance with agility and business outcomes. 

Drive adoption of self-service data tools, literacy programs, and practices that democratize access across functions. 

Own budgets, financial plans, and RFPs for governance tools/platforms. 

 

 

 

Skills You Will Need 

Team Leadership: Proven ability to lead, develop, and inspire high-performing teams in a dynamic environment; ensures the teams have the tools and clarity to be successful.  

Executive Stakeholder Management: Proactively engages stakeholders to understand their challenges and goals. Ability to have a business-first viewpoint. 

Strategic Thinking: Applies an enterprise mindset to turn governance into business value and scalable models; clearly articulates a future vision and rallies support around it. 

Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of enterprise data platforms (e.g., Google Cloud) metadata, MDM, catalog/data quality tools (Collibra), and SQL/NoSQL for data profiling and validation. 

 

Who You Are 

12+ years of progressive experience in a scaled Enterprise Data Analytics organization with at least 5 years of people leadership experience; retail industry exposure preferred.  

Track record of driving successful Data Governance transformations and enterprise change management.  

Passion for influencing executive stakeholders and being a trusted business partner. 

Gets excited by connecting the dots across people, da