Data Governance Architect III

GM Financial • Dallas, TX

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

As regulatory expectations increase, governance must move from advisory to engineered. The Data Governance Architect provides a single point of accountability to embed compliance into how data is designed, shared, protected, and audited—reducing risk, audit findings, and operational inefficiency while increasing trust in enterprise data. The Data Governance Architect III is accountable for designing and operationalizing enterprise data governance to ensure regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and trusted data management at scale. This role embeds governance policies—definitions, metadata, lineage, classifications, quality, and access controls—directly into data architecture, cloud platforms, and delivery practices.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience preferred
• 4-6 years experience data modeling, data architecture, data governance or enterprise data management required
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA‑DMBOK) and data management practices.
• Expertise in data modeling (conceptual/logical/physical), metadata, and taxonomy/ontology design.
• Familiarity with privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and compliance standards; experience partnering with Privacy/Compliance.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and architecture governance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; able to influence without authority across business and technology.
• Modeling tools (e.g., ER/Studio, Erwin)
• Knowledge of security and risk frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) and data protection techniques (tokenization/masking).
• Background in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, public sector) with audit‑ready documentation practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with regulatory data management and tools like BigID or OneTrust is a plus
• Practical experience implementing MDM, data catalogs, and lineage (e.g., Informatica CDGC, Collibra, Alation, Azure Purview).
• CDMP, TOGAF, CIMP or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise data governance architecture
• Translate regulatory and business policies into enforceable standards
• Lead definition and maintenance of data standards (naming, modeling, metadata, classification, quality, lineage, access controls).
• Govern canonical definitions, taxonomies, and semantic standards
• Architect and govern enterprise metadata management, including business, technical, operational, and privacy metadata
• Ensure traceability from logical model → canonical model → physical data → consumption.
• Architect governance controls that support:
• Data mapping and Records of Processing (RoPA)Privacy classification, purpose limitation, and retention DSAR discovery, impact analysis, and execution
• Lead governance architecture and integration for platforms such as: Informatica CDGC / CDQ, BigID, ServiceNow
• Integrate governance tooling with: Cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT tools, BI and analytics tools (Power BI)
• Provide guidance on master data, reference data, and interoperability across systems and platforms.
• Establish data-sharing contracts and domain service agreements to ensure consistent use of data across the enterprise.
• Influence architecture decisions to ensure data governance requirements are embedded into product and platform designs.
• Align governance with cybersecurity controls
• Ensure governance controls align with compliance requirements (SOX, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI, etc.).
• Support integration and traceability between data architecture and enterprise architecture (capability maps, application/technology portfolios).

Benefits

• Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
• Competitive pay and bonus eligibility
• Flexible hybrid work environment, minimum of 2-days a week in Arlington, TX or Las Colinas, TX office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees