🚀 We're Hiring: Program Manager – Data Governance
📍 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Hybrid – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday onsite)
📅 Contract Duration: 12 months (Extension possible)
🕘 Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
We’re looking for an experienced Program Manager with strong expertise in Data Governance, Agile delivery, and enterprise technology initiatives to drive governance transformation, technology adoption, and business value realization with our client in the financial services industry.
🔹 Key Responsibilities
- Lead Data Governance roadmaps, programs, and enterprise technology initiatives.
- Gather business requirements and develop epics, features, and user stories.
- Coordinate Agile ceremonies, delivery teams, project timelines, risks, and dependencies.
- Collaborate with business, technology, engineering, risk, compliance, privacy, and executive stakeholders.
- Prepare executive presentations, status reports, and business cases.
- Drive governance adoption, change management, KPI tracking, and continuous improvement.
🔹 Must-Have Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Program Management, Product Management, Data Governance, Data & Analytics, or Enterprise Technology Delivery.
- Strong understanding of metadata management, data quality, data lineage, data access, governance controls, and regulatory compliance.
- Hands-on experience or familiarity with Databricks Unity Catalog, Microsoft Azure, Informatica IDMC, Power BI, and JIRA.
- Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and influencing skills.
- Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
🔹 Nice to Have
- Financial services or regulated industry experience.
- Experience developing governance operating models and business cases.
- PMP, Agile, Scrum, Data Governance, Cloud, or Product Management certifications.
