Director, Data Governance

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5 days/ week in Newark, NJ.

As Director, Data Quality and AI Assurance, you will be part of Chief Data and AI Office, supporting the enterprise operating model that enables trusted data and responsible use of AI across the organization. This role sits within the Data Quality and Responsible AI assurance function and partners closely with business, technology, risk, legal, compliance, model risk, information security, data governance, and platform teams to help ensure AI products and the data that powers them are safe, compliant, high quality, explainable, monitored, and fit for purpose.

In this India-based 8P role, you will provide execution leadership for Data Quality and AI assurance activities, including control testing outcomes, evidence review, dashboarding, issue triage, remediation tracking, and continuous monitoring. You will help translate enterprise data and AI standards into measurable assurance routines, working across global teams to strengthen governance-by-design and improve transparency into risk, quality, and control effectiveness.

You will lead and coordinate assurance execution for enterprise data quality and Responsible AI controls, ensuring that prioritized data products, critical data elements, AI products, models, and GenAI solutions are assessed against defined standards, thresholds, and evidence expectations. The role requires strong technical judgment, disciplined execution, and the ability to work across global stakeholders to convert governance expectations into repeatable testing, monitoring, and reporting practices.

You will help build and scale an integrated Data Quality and AI assurance capability that supports intake, risk classification, pre-release review, production monitoring, exception management, and audit-ready documentation. This includes supporting the development of dashboards, KPI/KRI reporting, control execution routines, and evidence packages that provide transparent visibility into data quality health, AI risk posture, remediation progress, and adherence to enterprise policy and standards.

• Lead assurance execution for Data Quality and Responsible AI controls across prioritized data products, AI products, models, GenAI use cases, and enterprise control plane capabilities.
• Translate data and AI policy requirements into practical assurance procedures, test scripts, control checks, documentation standards, and evidence expectations.
• Define and execute data quality assessment routines, including profiling, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, validity, lineage, metadata quality, and fit-for-use reviews.
• Support Responsible AI assurance checkpoints across the AI lifecycle, including intake, risk tiering, pre-deployment review, production monitoring, periodic review, and change governance.
• Review AI and data product evidence for adherence to standards, including approved data source usage, documented controls, explainability artifacts, monitoring thresholds, exception handling, and remediation plans.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and KPI/KRI reporting that provide visibility into data quality health, AI risk indicators, control effectiveness, exceptions, and remediation progress.
• Coordinate issue triage, severity assessment, root cause documentation, remediation tracking, SLA monitoring, and closure evidence for Data Quality and Responsible AI findings.
• Partner with product owners, data domain teams, technology, MLOps, Data Ops, model risk, legal, compliance, privacy, information security, and audit stakeholders to embed assurance practices into delivery workflows.
• Support pilots and scale-out of the integrated Data Quality and AI control plane, including executable rules, monitoring routines, exception management workflows, and reusable playbooks.
• Prepare governance materials, management reporting, and audit-ready documentation for working groups, leadership forums, control partners, and senior stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to automate control testing, evidence capture, monitoring alerts, dashboarding, and policy-to-rule translation across enterprise platforms and tooling.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and quality review for analysts, specialists, or execution partners supporting Data Quality and AI assurance activities in India and globally.

• Significant experience in data quality, data governance, AI governance, model risk, technology risk, audit, compliance, analytics, data engineering, or related disciplines, preferably in a large global or regulated organization.
• Strong understanding of data quality dimensions, profiling, rules, thresholds, controls, monitoring, issue management, remediation, lineage, metadata, and critical data element management.
• Working knowledge of Responsible AI concepts, including fairness, explainability, transparency, robustness, privacy, human oversight, model monitoring, drift, bias indicators, and AI…