Data Governance Lead

Data Governance Lead

Department: Global Analytics and Technology

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: India

Description

Job location: Remote in India

About the role:
As a Data Governance Lead, you will oversee the creation of Data Governance policies and practices, the creation and maintenance of a Data Asset Registry, and the implementation of Data Access Control across platforms.

The successful candidate will be well-versed in data governance general concepts, up-to-date with current trends, and aware of tools and technologies that will help achieve our goals. They will have a good grasp of technology and be able to contribute to technical discussions that will aim to strengthen our data governance practices. All the while, they will be astute communicators able to navigate a complex organization distributed across multiple countries.

An outgoing team member set up the basic structure for access control across the organization and for our data asset registry. Working closely with the Head of Data, your role will be to finalize this work and establish clear, robust, and well-defined policies for data governance across our growing enterprise. This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact on the company’s data practices at a pivotal point in setting up governance practices.

What you will be expected to do:

• Find practical and viable solutions to adapt our architecture to local rules and regulations on data management in the countries we operate in.
• Enable the transfer of data ownership from the data team to the teams producing the data, including creating communication channels and guiding the teams to empower them to make choices about their data.
• Become an expert in our tech stack (Looker, AWS) and ETL pipeline to envision the best practical solutions to control access to data.
• Maintain an up-to-date Data Asset Registry to maintain the highest level of access while ensuring the protection of our proprietary and customer data.
• Standardize data definitions, descriptions, and other metadata, and work with technical data teams to maintain the data dictionary.
• Define data access policies for teams and roles inside and outside of the organization with approval from the Executives of the company.
• Define KPIs for data quality and set up monitoring mechanisms.
• Set up and conduct data compliance training.
• Establish data lifecycle management in compliance with data retention policies (creation to data deletion).
• Redesign our data lake/database to ensure compliance with PII and security standards.
• Work with technical teams to identify and implement solutions to improve data access and data protection.
• Work with our Cloud Security team to identify and resolve security risks posed by data sharing policies and their implementation.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering field, Business Administration, or Public Administration
• 4+ years of overall experience in a highly technical environment
• 2+ years working in a data governance role with increasing ownership
• Strong grasp of Data Governance values and techniques
• Strong knowledge of databases and proficiency in SQL
• Experience with Looker is a plus
• Excellent English communication skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.