Senior Lead - Data Governance

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Location: Zurich Workload: Full-time Your tasks: Architect the Governance Framework: Define and implement a comprehensive enterprise data governance framework covering data categories, field standardizations, and requirements for data products. Lead Cross-System Field Standardization: Establish and govern how core entities, such as customer, product and dates, are defined and handled across all systems to ensure a single, unified view of the business. Lead KPI & Metric Governance: Act as the strategic lead for KPI standardization, ensuring our glossary, change control frameworks, and metric mapping are robust and scalable beyond current projects. Ensure Data Hygiene: Proactively manage data health by solving naming inconsistencies across systems and ensuring proper labeling at the source. Be the steward of our data catalog. Automate Governance: Explore and implement advanced tools—such as custom-built agents—to proactively crawl, flag, and correct inconsistencies in our data environment. Forge Strategic Alignment: Use your interpersonal skills to drive alignment when necessary, aligning different business and engineering teams on single, governed definitions. Anticipate & Trade-off: Foresee potential integration issues and be unafraid to make the necessary trade-offs to ensure long-term stability and system performance. Your profile: You are a seasoned data governance professional with a track record of driving large-scale data quality improvements in technology-heavy, multinational organizations. Data Governance Leadership: You have 8+ years of experience designing and embedding scalable data governance and ownership frameworks at an enterprise level. Engineering Foundation: You bring a strong data engineering background with a deep understanding of how data flows effectively between complex, distributed systems. Business acumen: you understand how businesses drive impact through data, from source to decision, and have experience in driving better business impact through improved data governance. Metric Expertise: You possess detailed knowledge of how metrics are built and defined, coupled with the change management skills to lead "Change Control" processes. Data Catalogs: You have hands-on experience procuring and deploying modern data cataloging and SaaS-based governance tools (e.g. Atlan, Alation, OpenMetaData, or similar). Stakeholder Mastery: You are comfortable navigating complex organizational structures, partnering with senior leaders to solve strategic technology problems. Innovation Mindset: You don't just follow maps; you create them. You are experienced at using data-driven innovation to reduce risk and accelerate business activities.

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