Director of Data Governance & Data Quality
On-siteChandler, Arizona, United States
Job Summary
Build the operating system for data trust across a complex, multi-entity environment by establishing the Data Trust Council, owner/steward models, and certification frameworks for critical metrics. Design data quality incident processes and root-cause discipline, defining rules and monitoring expectations for Snowflake, dbt, and observability tools. Enforce source change control through Data Impact Reviews, evaluating downstream effects on dashboards, historical comparisons, and client-facing outputs. Serve as the neutral bridge among business leaders, BI, and Data Platform to translate technical lineage into plain-language business implications. Partner on student and client data privacy expectations, coordinating access, retention, and escalation with Security and Legal. Lead governance standards that prevent definitions from becoming a centralized writing service, ensuring business owners author and approve rules.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of progressive experience in data governance, data quality, data strategy, analytics operations, data product operations, or related data management roles
- Proven success creating business-owned data governance in a messy, multi-system environment where source systems, definitions, dashboards, and operational processes did not initially agree
- Strong technical fluency with modern data environments such as Snowflake, dbt, Tableau or comparable BI tools
- Experience designing source-change control, data quality incident management, certification standards, and owner/steward models that changed actual operating behavior
- Ability to distinguish source-process issues, integration failures, data engineering defects, definition disputes, dashboard QA problems, timing/freshness gaps, and user-interpretation issues
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