Director, Data Management – Governance

🕒 March 28

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American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1991

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • B2C

American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) is a mission-driven, for-profit higher education services provider that delivers affordable, innovative degree and certificate programs to working adults, military service members and veterans, nurses, and other professionals. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries — American Public University System (American Public University and American Military University), Rasmussen University, and Hondros College of Nursing — APEI offers online, on-campus and workplace education focused on career-oriented programs and public service communities. The company is headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia and emphasizes accessibility and support for adult learners and the military community.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the enterprise data management and governance strategy aligned to business objectives and overall data/analytics senior leadership vision and strategy. • Owns roadmap for strategic data management and governance. • Build and lead a high-performing organization wide data stewardship community of practice that is domain embedded and has clear data ownership. • Build and lead an efficient and effective enterprise data management team and function. • Lead master data management strategy, delivery, and operations that also includes key enterprise reference data management. • Lead building and scaling metadata management efforts along with implementing and maintaining our enterprise data catalog. • Lead Data Management & Governance to operationalize policies as code (RBAC, masking, row-level security, audit logging). • Designs and implements processes and systems for regulatory compliance (e.g. FERPA, GDPR, CCPA) • Establish platform governance for security compliance. • Drives design and implementation of scalable, resilient data pipelines for master data management workloads. • Ensure observability, lineage, and quality frameworks are embedded in pipelines and orchestration. • Lead cross functional efforts to improve data quality, focused around areas where data quality creates friction to a broader business initiative, driver, or efficiency outcome. • Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement while leveraging AI to improve data management efficiency and effectiveness. • Mentor the team and technical leads and develop succession plans. • Owns budgeting and forecasting for the MDM and data catalog platforms along with vendor and partner management. • Plans work and team capacity with the team, peer leaders, and data product owners/management. • Performs other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

•10+ years in data related roles •5+ years in data management/governance leadership •7+ years in overall data leadership experience •Product management experience preferred and data as a product experience highly preferred •Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent with Master’s in Data/Analytics related degree preferred •Expertise with data governance frameworks (DCAM, DAMA), automated policy enforcement, and modern approaches to governance that are more business value driven and partnership centric •Proven experience with cloud data platforms with Snowflake, Azure and Coalesce.io/DBT or similar ELT pipeline and orchestration tools highly preferred •Cloud data catalog and MDM program, delivery, platform, and operations experience •Expertise in SQL •Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures •Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) •Knowledge of data quality frameworks, lineage tools, MDM tools, and observability platforms. •Solid planning, priority setting, product and project management skills with demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and cross functional teams concurrently •Strong experience with leading globally distributed remote teams including employees and contract delivery teams •Track record of delivering large-scale, mission-critical data management solutions with measurable business impact •Strategic thinking with ability to translate business goals into platform capabilities •Exceptional stakeholder management and influence across business and technology •Build talent: proven ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain top data management talent •Strong experience modernizing and maturing organizational data management practices along with establishing a culture of continuous improvement •In-depth knowledge of architectural best practices, design patterns, governance and security principles •Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate and lead effectively with all levels of the organization from data engineers to C-Level executives.

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer