Data Governance and Strategy Lead
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Location: Toronto, ON
Hybrid
Duration: Initially 4 months starting Jan 2027
- Lead stakeholder interviews, surveys and working sessions
- Assess the current operating model, governance practices, controls and third-party data arrangements
- Define governance requirements and responsibilities covering data ownership, access, privacy, security, retention, lineage and data quality
- Establish the current-state cost baseline
- Support use-case prioritization, roadmap development and business-case analysis
- Develop the data governance framework and contribute to the current-state assessment and roadmap
Minimum requirements
- Experience conducting data governance assessments and developing practical governance frameworks
- Experience defining data ownership, stewardship, access, privacy, security, retention, lineage and data-quality requirements
- Experience assessing governance controls and third-party or vendor-managed data arrangements
- Experience assessing data operating models, including roles, responsibilities and decision rights
- Ability to independently lead stakeholder sessions and convert findings into requirements and deliverable content
- Experience supporting cost analysis, roadmap development or business-case economics
Nice to have
- Public-sector or regulated-organization experience
- Familiarity with SAS Viya or SAS Customer Intelligence 360 environments
- Experience governing customer, marketing and digital-behavior data, including privacy and consent
- Exposure to governance and controls for cloud data platforms (such as Snowflake or Databricks) and managed-cloud hosting models
- Experience contributing to current-state cost baselines for data platforms and hosting
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Responsibilities
Lead stakeholder interviews, surveys, and working sessions to assess the current data operating model, governance practices, controls, and third-party data arrangements. Establish a cost baseline and develop governance requirements, a practical framework, use-case priorities, a roadmap, and business-case analysis.
Requirements
Requires experience assessing data governance and developing practical frameworks, including requirements for ownership, stewardship, access, privacy, security, retention, lineage, and data quality. Candidates must be able to independently lead stakeholder sessions and translate findings into deliverables, with experience in operating-model and control assessments; cost analysis, roadmap, or business-case experience is also required.
Skills
- Data Governance
- Governance Framework Development
- Data Ownership
- Data Stewardship
- Data Access Management
- Data Privacy
- Data Security
- Data Retention
- Data Lineage
- Data Quality
- Operating Model Assessment
- Governance Controls Assessment
- Third-Party Data Governance
- Stakeholder Facilitation
- Roadmap Development
- Cost and Business-Case Analysis
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Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
Keywords
- Data Governance
- Governance Framework
- Data Operating Model
- Data Ownership
- Data Stewardship
- Data Access
- Privacy
- Security
- Data Retention
- Data Lineage
- Data Quality
- Governance Controls
- Third-Party Data
- Vendor-Managed Data
- Stakeholder Interviews
- Surveys
- Working Sessions
- Cost Baseline
- Use-Case Prioritization
- Roadmap Development
- Business-Case Analysis
- SAS Viya
- SAS Customer Intelligence 360
- Customer Data
- Marketing Data
- Digital-Behavior Data
- Privacy and Consent
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Managed-Cloud Hosting