Data Governance Manager
On-siteBudapest, Budapest, Hungary
Job Summary
Act as the visible representative of the Data Management team, explaining the purpose and value of structured Data Governance to business and implementation stakeholders. Operate and continuously improve the Data Governance framework, including policies, standards, guidelines, and processes, while ensuring practices are embedded into day-to-day operations. Coordinate the Data Excellence Network by supporting Data Domain Owners, Stewards, and Definition Owners, and facilitate governance forums to track decisions and resolve ambiguities. Manage business metadata and definitions across the Conceptual, Reference, Metrics, and Data Quality Models, collaborating with Data Architects to ensure high-quality content and stakeholder engagement. Drive adoption through training, coaching, and change management, while monitoring performance via KPIs such as ownership coverage and policy compliance.
Required Qualifications
- 4-5 years of hands-on experience in Data Governance, Data Management or metadata management
- Strong understanding of Data Governance operating models, including roles such as Data Domain Owner, Data Definition Owner, Data Steward, Data Maintenance Owner, and related governance forums
- Experience in designing, maintaining, and improving governance policies, standards, guidelines, processes, and practical workflows
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage both business and technical stakeholders
- Ability to explain Data Management concepts in a clear, practical, and persuasive way to stakeholders with different levels of data maturity
- Experience in driving adoption, training role owners, supporting change management, and building active governance communities
- Strong quality mindset and attention to detail, especially when reviewing business definitions, metadata, and documentation for clarity, consistency, and compliance with standards
- Ability to work closely with Data Architects and implementation teams while maintaining a clear distinction between governance content ownership and data model architecture responsibilities
- Fluency in English, both spoken and written
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with metadata management, data catalog, or Data Collaboration platforms such as Dataspot or comparable tools.
- Familiarity with conceptual data modelling, reference data management, metrics definitions, or data quality rule definition.
- Experience in change management, training, communication, or community building in a cross-functional enterprise environment.
- Experience in process improvement, operating model design, or governance framework development.
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