Director of Data Governance & Data Quality
On-site · Chandler, Arizona, United States
Job Summary
Director of Data Governance & Data Quality responsible for establishing governance operating model, certification, data quality incident management, source change control, and cross-functional partnerships across Snowflake/dbt/Tableau environments to enable trusted data for education stakeholders. Lead with executive diplomacy, data-product judgment, and technical fluency to ensure clear ownership, lineage, certifications, and controlled data movement from source systems to decision products for Vertex Education across multiple schools, states, and data domains.
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
- Strong technical fluency with Snowflake, dbt, Tableau or comparable BI tools
- Experience designing source-change control, data quality incident management, certification standards, and owner/steward models
- 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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