Data Governance Lead

🕒 July 31

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $145k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Workforce Opportunity Services

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Workforce Opportunity Services is an organization committed to providing career opportunities for underserved populations. They focus on bridging the gap between talented individuals and companies looking for skilled workers. Through training and job placement services, Workforce Opportunity Services aims to enhance the workforce by connecting diverse talent with employers who value inclusivity and opportunity.

📋 Description

• Develop, implement, and maintain the organization’s data governance framework, operating model, policies, standards, and procedures. • Define data ownership and stewardship roles and coordinate the activities of data owners, data stewards, and governance councils. • Establish and maintain a business glossary, data catalog, metadata repository, and consistent data definitions. • Develop data-quality rules, validation controls, exception thresholds, monitoring processes, and remediation procedures. • Identify and govern critical data elements and prioritize important data assets and domains. • Establish processes for documenting data lineage and tracking data from source systems through reporting and analytics. • Monitor compliance with data-governance policies and applicable privacy, security, retention, and regulatory requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• Direct experience leading data governance work rather than only advising on it. • Direct experience establishing a data governance function where none existed. • Experience designing data quality frameworks, including rule-based validation, exception thresholds, monitoring, and the identification and definition of critical data elements. • Hands-on experience building a business glossary and data catalog and defining the process that keeps them current. • Experience in government, pension, insurance, banking, or another environment with audit and compliance exposure. • Based in the United States and able to work Pacific business hours. • Preferred: Public retirement system experience. • Knowledge of the data catalog and governance tooling market sufficient to guide requirements definition and vendor selection. • Training design and delivery experience, including train-the-trainer, job aids, and recorded materials. • Change management experience in an organization where staff are taking on data steward duties for the first time. • Familiarity with pension administration systems, financial systems such as Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, or reporting layers such as Power BI.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible benefits program • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Health and dependent-care spending accounts • Life, disability, accident, and critical illness insurance • Paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits • Defined-benefit pension plan • 457 and 401(a) deferred compensation plans • Employee Assistance Program • Public-transit assistance and employee discounts