Data Product & Asset Governance Associate Director

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Position Summary:
The Data Product and Asset Governance SME is an Associate Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office, combining data governance expertise, hands‑on technical implementation and product management skills. The role works with business and technology stakeholders to make enterprise data products and assets trusted, discoverable and reusable throughout their lifecycle. It defines requirements for purpose, ownership, metadata, classification, quality, lineage, access, permitted use, retention and evidence, including fitness for analytics and AI.

It translates these requirements into practical standards, metadata models, workflows, quality rules, platform integrations and technology‑enabled controls that support federated stewardship. Using product management practices, the role takes producer, consumer and steward needs from discovery and prioritisation through roadmap and backlog definition, design, configuration, testing, approved release and adoption, measuring business value and control effectiveness. Delivery is scoped to approved architecture, security and delivery parameters.

Data Owners and product teams remain accountable for their data and outcomes; designated platform and control owners retain enterprise architecture, security approval, infrastructure and production operations accountabilities.
Essential Functions of the Job:

• Define the governance model for enterprise data products and assets, including ownership, stewardship, decision rights, lifecycle stages and evidence requirements.
• Establish a common governance baseline covering business purpose, authoritative source, metadata, classification, quality, lineage, access, permitted use, retention and monitoring.
• Create proportionate governance pathways based on asset type, risk, use, consumer and platform.
• Define criteria for product entry, certification, publication, service, health, change and retirement.
• Define data contract responsibilities between producers and consumers, including service expectations, quality thresholds, permitted use and sharing obligations.
• Design, configure and validate workflows for registration, onboarding, discovery, access approval, sharing, reuse, certification, change and decommissioning, including accountable decisions, exceptions, escalation and auditable evidence.
• Conduct discovery with business stakeholders, Service Line Quality, data producers, consumers and Regional Data Stewards; translate their needs into governance capability roadmaps, prioritised backlogs, user stories and functional and non‑functional requirements. Agree priorities and dependencies with the Global Data Office, CTOs, CIOs and relevant product and platform owners.
• Embed governance checkpoints and measurable acceptance criteria into discovery, design, build, release and operation; execute configuration and integration testing, coordinate user acceptance testing, resolve defects and prepare release, rollback and support documentation for approved deployment.
• Evaluate governance platform capabilities and deliver proofs of concept and scoped implementations for catalogues, data marketplaces, metadata, lineage, quality and workflows; configure metadata models, certification criteria and approved rules, and implement supported API, connector or scripting‑based integrations within authorised environments.
• Translate approved policy and business requirements into traceable, machine‑readable governance rules and metadata; validate discovery outputs with accountable owners and make…