Program Manager (Data Governance Exp)

Ivid Tek•Minneapolis, MN

16h

About The Position

We are seeking a Program Manager with Data Governance experience to join our team. This role will be instrumental in establishing and operationalizing our data governance program across various data domains. You will own key aspects of program planning, execution, communication, and governance activation, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements. This is a critical role for driving data management best practices and fostering a culture of data accountability within the organization.

Requirements

CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) required at hire or firm commitment to certify within 12 months.
DAMA DMBOK2 proficiency.
7+ years in data management, data governance, or enterprise program management.
Hands-on experience with an enterprise data catalog (Alation strongly preferred; Collibra or Informatica Axon, Atlan acceptable).
Demonstrated experience running a governance program across multiple business domains.
Strong written communication skills for drafting policies, playbooks, and briefing materials.
Experience facilitating workshops with business and technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Health plan or healthcare payor experience (HEDIS, Stars, Medicare Advantage, HIPAA).
Experience with Jira for governance workflow management.
Familiarity with Great Expectations or equivalent DQ framework.
Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog or equivalent data access governance layer.
CDMP Practitioner or Master level.

Responsibilities

Own the program plan, including maintaining the Jira project board, tracking milestones against the roadmap, and flagging risks and blockers.
Prepare the monthly Council scorecard pack, including pulling KPI metrics, drafting narratives, identifying escalations, and presenting supporting slides.
Coordinate the monthly DG Council meetings, managing agendas, pre-reads, domain escalations, policy review items, and action tracking.
Own the program communications calendar, ensuring timely and effective communication for all-hands kickoffs, workshop scheduling, steward onboarding, and literacy curriculum assignments.
Lead the Data domain pilot end-to-end, including Data Owner designation, Steward onboarding, Alation orientation, domain workshop delivery, and DQ dimension workshops.
Build the domain onboarding playbook from the pilot, creating a repeatable template for all subsequent domains.
Drive Data Owner designation across all data domains, coordinating with domain product owners and managing the designation form process.
Onboard Data Stewards to Alation, coordinating enrollment, running orientation sessions, and tracking curation progress.
Manage the data issue intake process, owning the Jira queue, ensuring SLA adherence, and maintaining escalation processes.
Draft all program domains data policies for review and approval.
Maintain the policy register, including version control, review schedules, and renewal coordination.
Own the data classification policy, ensuring alignment between Alation sensitivity tags and Unity Catalog RBAC tiers.
Author domain governance playbooks documenting key roles, thresholds, and processes.
Configure the governance workflow in Alation with the Alation Catalog Engineer.
Own the business glossary governance, including term proposal, approval routing, and publication standards.
Monitor Alation catalog coverage monthly, tracking KPIs, identifying gaps, and assigning remediation.
Coordinate AI data governance in Alation, ensuring model cards, lineage, and checklist completion.