Data Governance Platforms & Workflow Product Associate Director

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The Governance Platforms & Workflow Product SME is an Associate Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office, combining data governance expertise, technology product management and hands-on implementation. The role turns approved governance standards, decision rights and control requirements into practical platform configurations, integrations and stewardship workflows. It leads functional product direction for assigned governance capabilities, translating business and user needs into requirements, roadmaps, prioritised backlogs and measurable acceptance criteria in partnership with designated Technology Product Owners and platform teams.

It delivers scoped configurations and integrations and coordinates design, testing, approved release, adoption and operational handover within approved architecture, security and delivery parameters. Working with business, data and technology stakeholders across a global, federated organisation, the role simplifies stewardship and measures business value, adoption and control effectiveness. Functional product leadership does not confer formal Technology Product Owner accountability or change the accountabilities of Data Owners, designated control owners or platform teams.

• Lead functional product vision, roadmap and prioritised backlog development for assigned governance platforms and workflows, in partnership with designated Technology Product Owners. Conduct discovery with business users, Service Lines, Service Line Quality, Data Owners, Data Stewards and control teams; translate needs into business, functional and non-functional requirements and coordinate dependencies with product and platform owners.
• Apply business governance expertise to modern data platforms and AI environments; evaluate governance platform capabilities and deliver proofs of concept and scoped implementations for catalogues, stewardship workflows and technology-enabled controls within authorised environments.
• Translate approved standards and decision rights into technical specifications, user stories, metadata schemas, machine-readable rules and measurable acceptance criteria; configure and validate roles, permissions, forms, rules, workflows and notifications within approved patterns.
• Design, configure and validate practical journeys for Data Owners and Data Stewards, including onboarding, issue management, attestations, certification, approvals and evidence capture, with accountable decisions, exceptions and escalation pathways.
• Prioritise requirements by business value, control outcomes, user experience, delivery effort and adoption needs. Facilitate decisions, negotiate priorities and resolve dependencies across business and technology teams; make trade-offs visible and accelerate unresolved conflicts or decisions outside delegated authority.
• Partner with Technology Product Owners on solution design, release decisions and the sequencing of platform improvements; deliver assigned configurations and supported API, connector or scripting-based integrations, connecting trusted metadata with governance workflows, approvals and downstream controls.
• Develop prototypes to validate user journeys and implementation options; embed governance checkpoints and measurable acceptance criteria into design, build and release. Execute configuration and integration testing, coordinate business testing and user acceptance, resolve assigned defects and prepare release, rollback and support documentation for deployment by authorised teams and subsequent adoption.
• Agree and monitor measures of business value, usability, workflow completion, adoption, service performance and control effectiveness with relevant stakeholders and designated control owners. Use feedback and implementation evidence to improve the roadmap, workflows and user experience.
• Maintain traceability from approved source requirements through backlog, configuration or integration, testing, release and control evidence; document solutions and transition scoped capabilities to designated support owners.

• Exercises the judgement expected of an Associate Director when setting functional product direction and balancing governance outcomes, user…