Manager, Data Governance

Constellation Brands•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Constellation Brands is seeking a Manager, Data Governance to lead its governance team and core program as the business advances its AI-ready data capabilities. The manager will oversee governance analysts and program areas including data product governance, metadata management, PII governance, data classification, and the data catalog. The role owns standards that provide business context so people and AI-powered solutions can understand and trust data. Governance practices are expected to expand to cover context, semantic models, ontologies, and related structures that enable consistent interpretation and responsible data reuse. This is a technical and change-oriented leadership role, rather than a solely policy-focused position. The position is based in Chicago, Illinois, with Rochester, New York listed as an additional location. It is a full-time Information Technology role.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in data governance, data management, analytics, BI, or a related data discipline.
Demonstrated experience leading people, programs, or cross-functional initiatives.
Hands-on SQL skills and comfort working directly with data to investigate issues and validate metadata and classification.
Working knowledge of governance fundamentals such as metadata, classification, stewardship, data privacy, and data ownership, with the ability to deepen that knowledge quickly.
Proven change management experience, including driving adoption of processes or tools across teams that do not report to you.
Strong technical aptitude and ability to learn new platforms quickly and understand how they work.
Experience coaching team members and managing competing priorities.
Clear communication skills with technical, business, and leadership audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience with modern data and governance tools, such as Atlan, Snowflake, Microsoft Purview, Cyera, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Jira, SQL, or comparable catalog, data platform, and work management tools.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of governance analysts by setting priorities, coaching, and building technical skills.
Run day-to-day governance operations and own the team’s Jira workflow and backlog to make intake, prioritization, delivery, and status reporting visible and consistent.
Own the direction of the Atlan data catalog platform, including configuration decisions, metadata quality, and business adoption.
Own data product governance, including metadata standards, publication requirements, and ownership roles such as product owners, stewards, and custodians.
Lead implementation and ongoing operation of PII governance and data classification standards, partnering with security and privacy on policy, controls, and access decisions.
Establish and evolve standards for data context, including business definitions, required metadata, glossary content, certification criteria, semantic models, and ontologies.
Define governance expectations, ownership, and lifecycle controls, and partner with analytics engineering, architecture, and AI teams on implementation and validation.
Drive adoption of governance standards across domain teams through practical processes, templates, training, and hands-on support.
Explore and test ways to scale governance, including automation and AI-assisted metadata and classification, and implement approaches that work.