Data Governance Product Lead (REMOTE)

Date Posted:

2025-03-17

Country:

United States of America

Location:

UTNY1: Corp-NY-Remote UT Remote NY , Albany, NY, 12201 USA

Position Role Type:

Remote

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Data Services (ES -Data) Team:

RTX’s Enterprise Data Services (ES-Data) group has an opening for an Associate Director, Data Governance Product Lead (Associate Director, Business Systems and Transformation) supporting RTX’s focus on Digital Thread/Data Strategy as part of our enterprise-wide Digital Transformation initiative.

Exciting Opportunity!

• Focused enthusiastic champion of data governance, offering BU’s consulting, adoption methods, training, and assistance to ensure their strategic and high-value projects leverage data governance, driving adoption and value for RTX. 
• Support and Lead Data Governance at ES-Data
• Partner with colleagues within the ES-Data and across RTX businesses, ES and Corporate to help shape, define and deliver Data Governance associated to ES-Data products and RTX wide initiatives; ensure successful adoption and continued collaboration. 
• Serve as a point of escalation for data governance capabilities and will work closely with Business and Functional area leadership to leverage RTX Data Governance capabilities and best practices
• Respond to regulatory protection requirements as well as support the strategic requirements of the department. 

ES-Data’s Data Governance Product Lead will help customers (RTX BU's) transform their organizations by leading organization-wide data governance capabilities to improve the quality and managing the protection of sensitive data and information assets.

This position focuses on establishing and ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework for data policies, standards, and practices, both at the department and Business and Functional areas level, to achieve the required level of consistency, quality, and protection to meet overall business needs. 

What You Will Do:

• Partner with BUs to understand strategic priorities to shape the Data Governance capability roadmap. 
• Develop and drive an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap incorporating strategic priorities as requirements. 
• Support the ongoing development of the enterprise- wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through continuous improvement of capabilities and services, metrics, processes, and data architecture. 
• Capture and document requirements, performing system analysis into a data governance capability and services prioritized product backlog
• Coordinate data governance capabilities development and build out with internal infrastructure team and in turn inform business and corporate partners of availability
• Resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas data governance representatives. 
• Provide technical guidance and education to BU’s including regarding data governance best practices.  
• Coordinate external data sources to eliminate redundancy and streamline the expense related to those services. 
• Analyze and address data-related problems and identify new improvement opportunities
• Participate in the development and maintenance of data models and data dictionaries.
• Participate in cross-functional team meetings to identify and resolve data governance issues.
• Support data governance team to provide progress reports to ES-Data SLT and BU and Corporate Data Board management.  
• Support the development and implementation of data catalog, protection and quality standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise. 
• Support definition of indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements. 
• Travel up to 25-30%

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Minimum of 12+ years’ experience in a major services organiz