Data Governance Specialist

The Data Governance Specialist supports the implementation and ongoing maturity of the enterprise data governance program within a federated operating model. The role partners with business data owners, stewards, and technology teams to establish consistent governance practices, strengthen data ownership and accountability, improve metadata and data quality, and support compliance with privacy, retention, and risk requirements. By coordinating governance activities, facilitating stakeholder engagement, monitoring performance, and promoting adoption of enterprise standards and tools, this role helps ensure data is well-managed, trusted, discoverable, and used responsibly across the organization

• Support the implementation and maturation of the enterprise data governance framework.
• Assist in developing and maintaining data governance policies, standards, procedures, and operating models.
• Facilitate governance councils, stewardship forums, working groups, and governance-related meetings.
• Track governance initiatives, decisions, action items, risks, and issue remediation activities.
• Promote governance awareness and adoption across business and technology teams.

• Partner with business unit leads to identify and document Data Owners and Business Data Stewards.
• Facilitate stewardship onboarding and training activities.
• Clarify governance roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and accountability expectations.
• Coordinate stewardship activities across data domains and business functions.
• Escalate unresolved ownership, accountability, and stewardship issues through appropriate governance channels.

• Support the development and maintenance of business glossaries, data dictionaries, and governance metadata.
• Establish metadata standards, governance workflows, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate metadata collection and validation activities performed by business and technical stakeholders.
• Monitor metadata completeness and governance compliance.
• Promote effective use of enterprise data catalog capabilities.

• Support implementation of enterprise data quality policies, standards, metrics, and controls.
• Facilitate identification, prioritization, and escalation of data quality issues.
• Coordinate remediation efforts with business stewards, system owners, and technology teams.
• Track data quality trends, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Report on data quality performance and governance outcomes.

• Support alignment of activities with regulatory, privacy, records retention, and risk management requirements. Support implementation of data classification, retention, and protection requirements.
• Assist with governance assessments, audits, and compliance reviews.
• Maintain governance documentation and evidence required for internal and external audits.

• Collaborate with business, technology, analytics, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and risk stakeholders.
• Communicate governance standards, expectations, and program objectives.
• Develop training materials, guidance documents, and governance communications.
• Drive adoption of governance processes and stewardship practices through education and stakeholder engagement.

• Define and track governance KPIs and stewardship performance measures.
• Produce governance dashboards, management reports, and executive summaries.
• Monitor governance maturity and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Report governance risks, trends, and and adoption metrics to leadership.