Data Governance Lead

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At Net App, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

At Net App, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow.

If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, Net App is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Are you ready to apply your data governance expertise and partner with business stakeholders to implement, optimize, and mature governance best practices? We have an excellent opportunity for you! We are seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead to join our Enterprise Data Governance team. This role is ideal for a pragmatic, influential leader who can translate governance principles into practical ways of working across business applications, analytics, A.I. use cases, data platforms, and enterprise processes.

The successful candidate will build strong partnerships, guide a distributed stewardship community, and continuously improve the quality, usability, and trustworthiness of data. The role requires broad business and technology acumen, with the ability to quickly understand both technical and business contexts and speak with credibility across functions. The Data Governance Lead will connect governance practices to operational excellence, trusted analytics, and effective business application outcomes while coaching stakeholders, encouraging adoption, and leading through influence rather than formal authority.

Experience in a product-centric technology infrastructure sector or another complex global environment is strongly preferred. If you have a passion for data, leadership skills, and a desire to make a significant impact, join us and be a part of something truly exciting.

• Enterprise Governance Execution:
  Implement and continuously improve practical governance processes that strengthen business operations, analytics, reporting, AI readiness, and application outcomes.
• Business Application and Analytics Enablement:
  Partner with application owners, analytics teams, data engineers, and business leaders to embed governance requirements into platforms, integrations, reporting solutions, and decision-making processes.
• Stewardship Community Leadership:
  Guide, coach, train, and mentor a distributed community of data owners and stewards; clarify roles, reinforce accountability, and create reusable practices that enable consistent execution.
• Stakeholder Management and Influence:
  Build trusted relationships across functions and levels, facilitate alignment, resolve competing priorities, and lead outcomes without formal authority.
• Communication and Evangelism:
  Communicate governance concepts in clear business language, develop compelling messages and learning materials, and champion the value of trusted data throughout the organization.
• Policy, Standards, and Metadata:
  Apply and evolve enterprise policies, standards, business glossaries, metadata, lineage, controls, stewardship roles, and approval workflows across critical data and applications.
• Data Quality and Continuous Improvement:
  Lead the definition of data quality rules and measures,…