Data Governance & Privacy Lead
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About This Role
Required Background
- Information Technology, Cybersecurity, a Master’s degree is highly preferred.
- 7+ years in data governance, privacy, compliance, or data management roles (government/telco preferred).
- Experience implementing data catalog/lineage tools and defining enterprise-wide data standards and policies.
- Experience with privacy controls (consent, RTBF/DSR processes, anonymization/masking, retention schedules).
- Background working with delivery vendors and integrating governance into program delivery and acceptance gates.
- Familiarity with AI data governance concepts (dataset/model cards, provenance, RAG content governance).
- Preferred tools:
- Data governance/catalog: Microsoft Purview (or equivalent), data classification/labeling tools
- Data protection: DLP tooling, encryption/CMK/HSM, key management (Key Vault/KMS)
- Data platforms: Lakehouse (Delta/Iceberg), streaming (Kafka/Event Hubs), SQL/ETL orchestration (Airflow)
- Soft skills:
- Strong facilitation and consensus-building (data councils, policy workshops)
- Ability to translate legal/privacy requirements into actionable technical controls
- High attention to detail with pragmatic prioritization
- Confidence to challenge non-compliant designs and drive remediation
- Effective communication and training approach for non-technical stakeholders
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