Senior Data Governance Architect- Governance AI
About The Position
A senior enterprise architect and trusted advisor responsible for defining and leading enterprise-wide Data Governance, AI Governance, Data Management, and Architecture strategies. The role establishes governance frameworks, operating models, platforms, controls, and AI governance practices that enable organizations to scale data and AI capabilities safely and effectively. The position defines governance strategies, roadmaps, KPIs, business cases, and value realization plans; advises executive stakeholders; and leads governance maturity assessments, capability design, architecture reviews, platform evaluations, and implementation roadmaps. It owns architecture, quality, risk, and delivery across governance, catalog, data quality, privacy, MDM, analytics, cloud, and AI initiatives. The architect designs governance capabilities and platforms, and leads the use of GenAI and AI agents to automate governance work. The role also designs AI governance frameworks and Responsible AI controls, and sets up agentic AI environments with approval workflows, exception handling, rollback mechanisms, and accountable ownership. The position includes senior architecture leadership, stakeholder alignment, mentoring, reusable asset development, proposal support, and thought leadership.
Nice To Haves
- DAMA CDMP certification.
- EDM Council DCAM certification.
- TOGAF Enterprise Architecture certification.
- IAPP AIGP certification.
- ISO 42001 Lead Implementer/Auditor certification.
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework certification.
- Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Databricks, IBM, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certifications.
- PMP, Agile/Scrum, Privacy, Security, Risk, or Change Management certifications.
Responsibilities
- Define enterprise data governance and AI governance strategies, operating models, roadmaps, KPIs, business cases, and value realization plans.
- Advise executive stakeholders, including CDO, CIO, CTO, Risk, Privacy, Security, Compliance, and Business Leaders.
- Lead governance maturity assessments, capability design, architecture reviews, platform evaluations, and implementation roadmaps.
- Own architecture, quality, risk, and delivery across governance, catalog, data quality, privacy, MDM, analytics, cloud, and AI initiatives.
- Architect and implement governance platforms, including Collibra, Informatica IDMC/CDGC, Alation, Ataccama, Microsoft Purview, Atlan, Databricks Unity Catalog, and IBM watsonx.governance.
- Design metadata management, lineage, business glossaries, stewardship, data quality, certification, privacy, retention, and data-product governance capabilities.
- Use GenAI and AI agents to automate metadata discovery, glossary creation, lineage analysis, anomaly detection, issue remediation, and governance monitoring.
- Design AI governance frameworks covering AI intake and risk assessment, RAG readiness, model inventories, monitoring, incident management, recertification, and retirement.
- Establish Responsible AI controls for fairness, transparency, explainability, privacy, security, traceability, and human oversight.
- Design agentic AI environments with confidence thresholds, approval workflows, exception handling, rollback mechanisms, and accountable ownership.
- Translate strategy into governance solutions, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
- Lead stakeholder alignment and enterprise decision-making.
- Mentor teams, build reusable assets, support proposals, and contribute thought leadership.
- Balance innovation, compliance, cost, risk, speed, and business value.
Benefits
- Paid time off: 12–25 vacation days depending on employee grade, plus company-paid holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
- Retirement savings plans, such as 401(k) in the U.S. or RRSP in Canada.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
