Data Governance Manager

Role : Data Architect

Company: Owlsure - Business unit of Value Momentum
Location: Hybrid
Experience: 10 + years
Employment Type: Contract - 6 months

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement enterprise data governance framework using Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Establish data ownership, stewardship, classification, and accountability across business domains.
• Design and maintain Business Glossary, Data Dictionary, and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Map business terms and definitions to Unity Catalog tables, columns, and data assets.
• Define metadata management and data discovery standards.
• Establish data lineage and impact analysis across source-to-consumption data flows.
• Define and implement data access, security, and governance policies using Unity Catalog.
• Establish data quality standards, rules, ownership, and monitoring processes.
• Define governance standards for data products, schemas, tables, and data lifecycle management.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, Compliance, and Business teams to drive governance adoption.
• Define governance processes, policies, standards, and operating model.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Databricks and Unity Catalog.

• Strong understanding of:

• Catalogs

• Schemas

• Managed and external tables

• External locations

• Storage credentials

• Volumes

• Views

• Functions

• Unity Catalog permissions and grants

• Row/column-level security concepts

• Data lineage

• Strong knowledge of Lakehouse architecture.

• Experience with cloud data platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.

• Strong SQL knowledge.

• Understanding of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

• Experience with data classification, metadata management, data ownership, and stewardship.

• Experience developing enterprise data governance frameworks

Accommodation Support | Travel Allowance | Joining Bonus | Competitive Compensation | Growth Opportunities