Data Governance Manager
About The Position
The Enterprise Data Governance Manager helps bring CFA Institute’s data governance framework to life across the organization, ensuring data is trusted, secure, and aligned with business and regulatory needs. The role focuses on data quality, metadata, stewardship, and practical implementation of governance standards and policies. It covers data relating to members, candidates, and the CFA Program, including proprietary and confidential information. Working as a partner to the Director, the manager has latitude to shape how governance is implemented and helps develop a newly designed framework into a live, enterprise-wide program. The role collaborates across business and IT, including with Data Engineering, data owners, stewards, and senior leaders. It also calls for quickly learning how CFA Institute operates as a membership organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of experience in data governance or data management, including hands-on implementation of governance practices covering ownership, classification, metadata, and data quality.
- Knowledge of industry frameworks and ability to translate them into workable processes that do not disrupt the business.
- Working knowledge of enterprise data platforms, such as cloud data lakes, Snowflake, Azure, AWS, or GCP, and data catalogue or quality tools.
- Understanding of SQL and the modern data stack.
- Ability to manage project plans, requirements, and KPIs, and break a roadmap into value-driven sprints.
- Strong working familiarity with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
- Ability to prioritize governance around the data that matters most and learn how a membership organization works.
- Excellent communication skills, including explaining technical concepts in business terms and building consensus across business and IT without relying on executive mandates.
- Adaptability and patience in the face of organizational inertia, with an inclination to offer options rather than impose change.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with CDMP, DAMA-DMBOK, CDAM, or CDMC.
- Background in asset management or wider financial services.
Responsibilities
- Help roll out and mature the enterprise data governance framework and recommend associated standards and policies.
- Manage governance projects from planning through delivery, including data quality remediation, glossary development, and steward onboarding.
- Define and track governance metrics, investigate root causes of complex data issues, and work with Data Engineering to build controls into platforms.
- Create data quality dashboards that show data health and remediation progress to data owners and leaders.
- Set metadata standards and drive adoption of the data catalogue and business glossary.
- Align data practices with privacy, records-retention, and regulatory needs, and maintain audit readiness.
- Lead working groups and steward forums, and train data stewards and domain owners.
- Incorporate governance checkpoints into project intake, system implementation, and vendor onboarding.
Benefits
- Eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive bonus.
- 12% employer contribution to a 401(k) or pension plan.
- Comprehensive medical benefits package.
- Health coverage, generous time off, competitive retirement plans, flexible work options, and wellbeing and development programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
