- Thinkahead
- United States,
- Full-Time
- 71 days ago
- $150,000–$175,000
Data Governance Lead.
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Data Governance Lead: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This role is for a hands-on data governance leader building operational governance across a data platform team.
- The Person:The person will build governance standards, implement the catalog and lineage, write quality checks into pipelines, configure access policy, and embed governance controls into data products.
- Requirements:The role calls for a Data Governance Lead who will define governance standards and implement the catalog, lineage, quality checks, access policy, and AI-safe data use controls.
About the role
The Data Governance Lead will build and run the governance capability of AHEAD’s Data Platform Team — hands-on. This is not a standards-writing or policy-committee role. The Lead will define governance standards and then implement them directly: building the catalog, wiring lineage, writing quality checks into pipelines, configuring access policy at the platform level, and embedding governance controls into every data product before it is published.
The role sits within the Data Platform Team, reporting to the Director, Data Platform. The Lead is a direct execution partner to the Director, responsible for making governance tangible and operational across every domain connection, data product, and pipeline the team owns. Governance here is an engineering discipline as much as a policy one — the Lead is expected to write, configure, and ship alongside the engineers they work with.
The Data Governance Lead will help the team deliver on its federated product model, its domain connection contract standards, its lineage and classification requirements, and its AI-safe data use controls. This leader will also build and lead a small governance function over time as the platform matures.