Data Governance Manager

Role overview

Location and work arrangement

• The position is based in Montreal, Quebec, and is onsite.
• Hiring mode is contract.

Pay

• Pay is CAD 65–70 per hour.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise governance strategies, policies, standards, operating models, and processes; establish ownership, stewardship, and accountability.
• Implement data quality frameworks and monitoring, resolve quality issues, and improve accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Manage data catalogs and metadata repositories; maintain classification, documentation, and lineage for critical data assets.
• Work with Security and Compliance on data protection; support regulatory compliance, audits, and risk assessments.
• Partner with business units, facilitate governance councils, train stakeholders, and report governance KPIs, maturity, and compliance to leadership.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, or related disciplines, including 3+ years leading governance initiatives.
• Strong understanding of frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK; experience with data governance and data catalog tools.
• Knowledge of data warehousing, master data management, and metadata management; strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• A relevant master’s degree, CDMP certification, cloud experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, and Agile project delivery experience are preferred.

Technical skills

• Data governance, data quality management, metadata management, data lineage, master data management, and SQL.
• Data catalog tools include Microsoft Purview, Collibra, and Informatica; Alation is also listed as an example.