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.
