Associate Manager - Data Quality & Governance

Role overview

Data quality and governance responsibilities

• Lead Snowflake data quality workstreams and coordinate control thresholds and remediation with data owners.
• Create and maintain auditable quality rules using Snowflake Data Metric Functions, Dynamic Data Masking, and Row Access Policies.
• Monitor rules, investigate failures, and provide exception reports and stakeholder dashboards.
• Maintain rule registers and audit-ready governance documentation.
• Maintain Horizon catalogues, metadata, lineage, and provenance for assigned Snowflake assets.
• Manage Snowflake RBAC and ABAC governance, access certifications, audit evidence, and Data Marketplace operations.
• Identify risks, improve processes, collaborate across teams, and support team development.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 7+ years of relevant experience, or advanced degree plus 6+ years.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience with Data Metric Functions, Dynamic Data Masking, Row Access Policies, Tasks, Streams, and Snowpark.
• Strong SQL; experience with data quality controls, governance, catalogues, metadata, lineage, and Snowflake access governance.
• Workstream coordination, clear communication, and ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Snowflake SnowPro Core certification or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Preferred and additional experience

• Regulated-industry experience is requested, preferably pharmaceutical; GxP data integrity or equivalent framework familiarity is relevant.
• Python or dbt experience for Snowflake automation, Snowflake Horizon familiarity, and exposure to Data Marketplace or data-as-a-product models are mentioned.
• Familiarity with enterprise data governance tooling is mentioned.