Director, Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance

Job Title: Director, Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

***"This is an onsite position. The preferred work location is New Orleans, LA though The Woodlands, TX will also be considered ***

 

 

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE

 

The Director of Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance will be a strategic leader who responsible for defining and executing the organization’s enterprise-wide data strategy. This leader will ensure that data is structured, governed, and leveraged as a strategic asset—enabling analytics, AI, regulatory compliance, and business value creation across all functions. This role provides strategic leadership and vision by driving the enterprise data strategy to enable business outcomes, digital transformation, AI adoption, and innovation, while partnering with business and technology leaders to align data initiatives with organizational priorities and value creation opportunities. The leader champions a data-driven culture by promoting literacy, accountability, and data ethics across the organization. In overseeing data governance and compliance, this individual leads the development and enforcement of a comprehensive governance framework encompassing policies, standards, and stewardship roles, ensuring adherence to privacy, regulatory, and security requirements such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and SOX. They manage data access, risk mitigation, and audit readiness to maintain trust and compliance. Collaborating with IT and architecture teams, the role defines the enterprise data architecture, including data models, metadata, and master data management, guiding integration across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments while evaluating and implementing advanced data management tools and platforms. A key responsibility involves ensuring data quality and stewardship by defining metrics, overseeing remediation for critical data elements, and fostering stewardship programs that drive accountability and continuous improvement in data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. The leader also drives the creation of reusable, trusted data products and APIs to enable analytics, AI, and self-service use cases, partnering with analytics and AI teams to ensure data readiness for model development and decision intelligence while governing metadata, lineage, and documentation to ensure transparency and reusability. Additionally, the role establishes key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics to measure the effectiveness of the data strategy, reporting progress and value delivered to executive stakeholders. Finally, as a cultural leader, this person builds and leads a cross-functional data governance council and steward community while developing enterprise-wide data literacy programs to elevate skills and foster a culture of responsible, data-driven decision-making.

 

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

 

1. Organizational Leadership: Provide inspirational leadership to the Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, promoting professional growth and collaboration. Establish a positive and inclusive work environment that values and encourages open communication.

2. Governance. Develop and implement enterprise data governance standards, policies, and processes that will ensure that data solutions are identified, developed, and deployed in order to generate strategic business value while managing risks and complying with legal, ethical, and responsible data governance practices. Collaborate with business leaders, IT, and AI teams in the design and implementation of data governance policies and procedures. Supervise and set direction for the Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance team

that will facilitate and support activities of the AI Governance Committee in establishing responsible AI policies and procedures.

3. Strategy and Direction. Lead and provide strategic direction to the Enterprise Data Strategy and Governance teams. Recruit, train, and retain top talent to generate consistent high performance for these teams. Oversee their activities, as described in more detail below, to ensure active collaboration, knowledge sharing, and accountability for results.

4. Change within the Organization: In conjunction with other change management leaders and functions, identifying organizational changes resulting from digital transformation. Develop comprehensive change plans in collaboration with leaders, ens