Strategic Data Governance Lead

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire and must not require employer sponsorship now or in the future. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship, and the company will not assume sponsorship obligations for existing visa holders.

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Why Join Us

• Career Growth:
  Advance your career with opportunities for leadership and personal development.
• Culture of Excellence:
  Be part of a supportive team that values your input and encourages innovation.
• Competitive Benefits:
  Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that looks after both your professional and personal needs.

Total Rewards
Our Total Rewards package underscores our commitment to recognizing your contributions. We offer a competitive and fair compensation structure that includes base pay and performance-based rewards. Compensation is based on skill set, experience, qualifications, and job-related requirements. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, wellness programs, retirement plans, and generous paid leave. Discover more about what we offer by visiting our Benefits page.

A Day In The Life
The Principal Data Governance Advisor is an individual contributor responsible for advancing practical, business-owned Data Governance across Gulf States Toyota. This role partners with the Director of Data & AI Strategy and business and technology leaders to establish consistent practices that ensure critical data is trusted, clearly owned, appropriately protected, and fit for purpose. This Principal Advisor provides governance expertise, tools, and guidance to help business areas establish data ownership, improve data quality, address key issues, and strengthen how data is managed and used.

The role also supports the trusted data foundation needed for reporting, analytics, automation, and AI while reducing data-related risk, duplication, manual work, and reliance on tribal knowledge. Success requires strong business acumen, facilitation, consulting, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and lead through partnership rather than direct authority.

As a Principal Data Governance Advisor you will:

• Advance GST’s Data Governance roadmap and Operating Approach:
  Partner with the Director of Data & AI Strategy in developing, executing and continuously improving GST’s Data Governance Roadmap and Operating Approach.
• Enable Business-Owned Governance:
  Provide Data Governance expertise, guidance, frameworks and tools that enable business areas to establish and sustain practical governance within their operations.
• Identify Critical Processes and Data:
  Partner with business areas to identify and prioritize critical business processes and data sets based on business value, risk and operational importance.
• Establish clear ownership and accountability:
  Help business areas identify and clarify Business Data Owners, Data Stewards and System/Technology Owners, including practical roles, responsibilities and accountability for critical data.
• Clarify source of truth, definitions and flows:
  Facilitate definition and documentation of authoritative data sources, critical data elements, business definitions, KPI definitions and key data flows.
• Improve Data Quality and Visibility:
  Facilitate definition of appropriate data-quality expectations for critical data, including accuracy, completeness,…