Lead Specialist, Governance & Master Data

Job description

The specialist establishes standards, ownership, controls, and master data foundations to enable reliable reporting, analytics, AI, and business decision‑making. Responsibilities include creating governance frameworks, policies, and decision rights aligned with enterprise data strategy, cybersecurity requirements, and regulatory obligations. Manages master data definitions, hierarchies, business rules, and lifecycle controls across critical domains such as assets, materials, suppliers, and employees to improve consistency and reduce duplication. Defines measurable data‑quality rules for completeness, accuracy, consistency, validity, and timeliness and drives root‑cause resolution of recurring issues. Integrates data‑quality, ownership, security, metadata, and lineage controls into data pipelines, cloud environments, and analytics platforms. Identifies and mitigates governance, privacy, security, and master data risks

Requirements

• proficient in Excel
• experience with cybersecurity
• knowledge of Git
• experience with regulatory compliance

Skills