Senior Manager, Data Governance Implementation

Opportunity

Role responsibilities

• Develop and operationalize enterprise data governance policies, standards, and frameworks.
• Embed ethical data use and privacy, and establish governance for accurate, transparent, and responsible AI use.
• Partner across data, analytics, business, and technology teams to balance compliance, innovation, and operating needs.
• Drive change management and define data stewardship and ownership accountability.
• Build implementation roadmaps and scale tools for catalogs, metadata, lineage, and AI enablement.
• Define metrics and KPIs, report progress to leadership, and monitor governance, regulatory, and AI ethics developments.

Experience and education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Data & Analytics, or a related field.
• 8+ years in data governance, data management, data and analytics, or a related field, including 3+ years in leadership or senior management.
• Demonstrated success implementing enterprise data governance programs and hands-on implementation of Collibra, Microsoft Purview, or similar solutions.
• Experience with Power BI or Tableau and cloud-native or multi-cloud architectures such as Azure or AWS.
• Understanding of governance frameworks such as DAMA or DCAM and experience with catalogs, classification, glossaries, metadata, lineage, and data quality.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and change management; ability to integrate compliance requirements into the data lifecycle.
• Experience implementing governance practices for responsible AI, data integrity, fairness, and compliance.

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced certifications in Data Governance, AI Governance, Privacy, or Data Management are preferred.
• Knowledge of privacy, records management, SQL, Python, DevOps, MLOps, Big Data, pipelines, warehousing, visualization, or integration workflows is preferred.
• Experience in data product-focused organizations is preferred.
• English communication is required; French bilingual skills are an asset.

Benefits

• Benefits include health, dental, and insurance coverage, vacation, fitness benefit, parental leave top-up options, retirement matching, learning support, and social events.

Compensation

• Expected salary range is CAD 115,000–135,000 annually; individual compensation depends on candidate and role factors.

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