Data Governance Specialist

Role purpose

Framework, policy and standards

• Supports the governance framework, operating model, policies, standards, procedures, controls, roadmap tracking, and ongoing improvement.
• Translates approved principles and policies into practical workflows and controls with trustees, stewards, and technical teams.
• Documents guidance and templates aligned with privacy, security, classification, retention, and UAE regulatory requirements; researches relevant governance practices.

Stewardship and culture

• Supports identification of trustees and stewards, maintains domain information and registers, and helps define trustee, steward, custodian, and user responsibilities.
• Coordinates steward meetings, working groups, and knowledge sharing; assists stewards and escalates unresolved accountability, quality, definition, or access issues.
• Supports training, awareness, communication materials, knowledge resources, and communities of practice.

Data quality, metadata and reporting

• Drafts quality rules and thresholds; profiles data, assesses quality, tracks issues, coordinates root-cause analysis and corrective action, and monitors resolution.
• Supports quality controls, data catalogs, glossaries, metadata repositories, lineage capabilities, and documentation of critical data elements and dependencies.
• Monitors actions and controls, reports governance indicators, and prepares quality and usage reports and dashboards for management and governance committees.

Essential qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information management, data management, information systems, computer science, analytics, or a related discipline.
• At least five years of relevant experience in data governance, data management, data quality, metadata management, information governance, privacy, or a related field.
• Practical experience supporting governance frameworks and working with trustees, stewards, technical teams, and business stakeholders in a complex organization.
• Hands-on experience with governance and catalog platforms, enterprise systems, and cloud platforms.

Preferred qualifications

• A relevant master’s degree is desirable.
• Preferred knowledge includes governance, quality, metadata, lineage, master and reference data, lifecycle practices, privacy, security, classification, retention, data sharing, and UAE requirements.
• Preferred experience includes higher education data, SQL, Excel or Power BI, governance indicators, remediation, controls, and governance reporting.
• Communication, facilitation, documentation, policy writing, process mapping, and analytical skills are highlighted.