Data Governance Lead

Acunor is Hiring: Data Governance Lead / Manager – Insurance

📍 Location: Canada

💼 Employment Type: Full-Time

🧑 💻 Experience: 8–14 Years

🏢 Domain: Insurance or Finance

We are looking for an experienced Data Governance Lead / Manager to design, implement, and operationalize enterprise-wide data governance and data quality programs across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid data environments.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise-wide Data Governance frameworks and operating models.
• Define data ownership, stewardship roles, governance workflows, data councils, and escalation processes.
• Establish business glossaries, data dictionaries, data standards, reference data definitions, and canonical data models.
• Develop Data Quality frameworks, including profiling, validation rules, quality scorecards, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Govern insurance data across Policy, Claims, Underwriting, Billing, Customer, Producer, Product, Coverage, Finance, and Regulatory Reporting domains.
• Implement metadata management, data lineage, cataloging, and sensitive data classification.
• Lead governance initiatives using Microsoft Purview, Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Azure data platforms.
• Partner with business, actuarial, underwriting, claims, compliance, analytics, and technology teams.
• Lead teams supporting MDM, Data Quality Engineering, Metadata Management, and Data Stewardship.

✅ Must-Have Skills

• 8–12 years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or Data Quality.
• Strong enterprise Data Governance framework and operating model experience.
• Mandatory Insurance domain experience.
• Knowledge of insurance data domains, including Policy, Claims, Underwriting, Billing, Customer, Producer, Product, Coverage, Finance, and Regulatory Reporting.
• Experience with Data Ownership, Data Stewardship, Governance Workflows, and Data Quality Management.
• Expertise in Business Glossaries, Data Dictionaries, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, and Data Standards.
• Strong Azure experience with:
• Microsoft Purview
• Experience with at least one governance platform: Collibra, Ataccama, Informatica Axon/EDC, or Alation.

⭐ Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading MDM or Data Quality Engineering teams.
• Experience with regulatory reporting and compliance initiatives.
• Experience working across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid data ecosystems.
• Knowledge of data governance KPIs, adoption roadmaps, and governance committees.