T&O Network Business Data Governance Leader

T&O Network Business Data Governance Leader

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Job Description Summary

GE Aerospace is seeking a highly skilled and motivated T&O Network Business Data Governance Leader to drive data governance excellence across the organization. This role is responsible for owning the relationship between business data, business processes and business metrics, ensuring alignment with Standard Work definitions, and leading change management efforts. The ideal candidate will act as a moderator between stakeholders, a liaison to leadership, and a champion for Lean principles to eliminate waste, improve efficiency, and enhance decision‑making processes.

This role is critical in ensuring that data governance practices are integrated into Daily Management and business processes, enabling teams to access actionable insights in a timely manner. The Business Data Governance Leader will also manage metric requests, address data gaps, and ensure respect for people by optimizing processes and reducing unnecessary human effort.

Job Description

• Business Process and Metrics Ownership:
• Own the relationship between business data, processes and business metrics, ensuring alignment and consistency.
• Verify the use of metrics in Daily Management to support operational decision‑making.
• Ensure data is actionable and accessible in a timely manner to enable efficient business processes.
• Standard Work Ownership:
• Act as the owner of Standard Work, including its definition, documentation, and change management.
• Ensure Standard Work is consistently applied across the organization and updated as needed.
• Stakeholder Management:
• Serve as a moderator between stakeholders, facilitating collaboration and alignment on data governance practices.
• Address discrepancies in metrics and answers, eliminating Lean waste such as extra processing and defects caused by inconsistent data.
• Metric Requests and Data Gap Management:
• Manage the Metric Request vs. Data Gap list, identifying gaps between requested metrics and available data.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to address gaps and set expectations for data availability.
• Reduce Lean waste by avoiding over‑production and ensuring data is created only when needed.
• Leadership Liaison:
• Act as a liaison to leadership, ensuring alignment between GE Aerospace’s strategic priorities and data governance practices.
• Communicate data governance updates and insights up to GE Aerospace leadership and down through the organization.
• Lean Waste Reduction:
• Champion Lean principles to eliminate waste, including:
• Extra processing caused by multiple versions of data.
• Defects resulting from inconsistent answers.
• Over‑production of data.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in data governance, business process management, and metrics development.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks and best practices.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g. Spotfire, Power BI).
• Knowledge of data integration, ETL processes, and data pipeline development.
• Familiarity with Daily Management systems and tools.

Soft Skills

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to act as a moderator between stakeholders and a liaison to leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities to identify and address data gaps and inefficiencies.
• Leadership and influence skills to drive alignment across the organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with GE Aerospace’s FLIGHT DECK operating model.
• Demonstrated ability to lead Standard Work definition and change management initiatives.
• Experience in Lean methodologies and waste reduction strategies.
• Knowledge of Lean principles and continuous improvement methodologies.

Key Metrics For Success

• Effective ownership and alignment of business data, processes, and metrics.
• Timely and accurate verification of metrics in Daily Management processes.
• Reduct…