Data Governance Manager

Summary

Join Omnidian, a B Corp certified company building a sustainable future, as a hands-on Data Governance Manager. Lead a team, enhance data governance processes, build a prioritized roadmap, and execute on it. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver valuable solutions. Manage projects from conception to implementation, ensuring on-time delivery. This role is remote, with a hybrid schedule option near Pittsburgh, NY Capital Region, or Seattle. Omnidian offers competitive compensation and benefits, including comprehensive health insurance, performance bonuses, equity stake, and learning reimbursement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Data Governance experience
• 3+ years in a leadership or managerial role
• Expertise in Data Governance processes and standards
• In-depth knowledge of Data Governance processes and standards and have experience building a Data Governance program
• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and guide a small team toward achieving goals and delivering high-quality solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of business needs, users, technology, and data, and ability to collaborate with stakeholders and your team to design and deliver data foundations that provide business value
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying issues and implementing effective solutions

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, and lead a small team of Data Governance professionals, fostering a collaborative environment
• Establish and continuously improve Data Governance processes and standards to ensure trust in our data
• Provide mentoring, coaching and leadership to matrixed (dotted-line) data analysts/stewards
• Provide structure, mentoring and leadership to data stewards; Resolving issues escalated by data stewards
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver Data Governance solutions that provide real value
• Build and lead a data stewardship program across the organization, consisting of direct reports as well as cross-functional team members
• Create and maintain a structure to track adherence to contractual and regulatory data privacy compliance
• Develop a Data Governance roadmap that aligns with company goals and evolving needs
• Act as an evangelist for Data Quality and Data Governance, raising awareness and improving data culture across the organization
• Create data standards and business rules, and specifying which data must be shared organizationally
• Ensure that legal and other compliance standards are followed
• Advocate for better use and management of data within the organization
• Create centralized training materials for Data Quality/Data Governance
• Communications, outreach and adoption for Data Governance standards and processes
• Manage Data Governance projects from conception to implementation, ensuring on-time delivery
• Participate in Data Governance activities such as data dictionary processes, data mapping, creating and maintaining ERDs and other data related documentation
• Identify and prioritize data-governance projects, such as data quality and data security
• Track data quality by profiling/reviewing data and monitoring metrics on data quality
• Plan, monitor, and enforce the management of data assets
• Catalog, monitor, and identify data assets that are essential to the organization's operations or services
• Assign ownership of data, ensure there is a clear RACI (responsible, accountable, consulted and informed) matrix in the organization
• Understands data governance commitments in our contracts
• Acts in ‘consult’ and ‘informed’ capacity to Infosec team on data privacy

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the clean energy industry
• Experience with Salesforce, Databricks, Sigma or RDS
• Experience supporting Data Governance with both manual processes and with tooling (such as Informatica or Collibra)

Benefits

• This role is a remote role
• For applicants in the Seattle area, we offer a vibrant and creative co-working space in the heart of downtown Seattle
• We provide outstanding benefits that we are continually improving upon, including family medical, dental, vision, disability, parental leave, 401(k) administration, self-managed PTO or 15 days of PTO in your first year, and paid sabbatical leave after four years
• We offer a competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, quarterly bonus and long-term stock options for every employee
• 100% of health insurance monthly premiums for employees, and 50% for dependents
• Up to 15% performance bonus, eligibility begins after 90 days
• Stock options
• Up to $500 annual learning reimbursement