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Data Governance and Strategy Lead

Toronto, ON (Canada)  ·  Contract (Full-time for 16 weeks)  ·  Senior

JOB OVERVIEW

LocationToronto, ON (Canada)
Employment TypeContract (Full-time for 16 weeks)
Experience LevelSenior
Salary Range$120,000 - $145,000 CAD per annum
Posted3 days ago

ABOUT THE ROLE

Full-time for 16 weeks starting in January. As Data Governance and Strategy Lead (Senior Consultant or Manager), you will lead stakeholder sessions, assess current governance practices, define requirements across data ownership, privacy, security, lineage, and data quality, and develop the data governance framework and implementation roadmap.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead stakeholder interviews, surveys and working sessions.
  • Assess the current operating model, governance practices, controls and third-party data arrangements.
  • Define governance requirements and responsibilities covering data ownership, access, privacy, security, retention, lineage and data quality.
  • Establish the current-state cost baseline.
  • Support use-case prioritization, roadmap development and business-case analysis.
  • Develop the data governance framework and contribute to the current-state assessment and roadmap.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

  • Experience conducting data governance assessments and developing practical governance frameworks.
  • Experience defining data ownership, stewardship, access, privacy, security, retention, lineage and data-quality requirements.
  • Experience assessing governance controls and third-party or vendor-managed data arrangements.
  • Experience assessing data operating models, including roles, responsibilities and decision rights.
  • Ability to independently lead stakeholder sessions and convert findings into requirements and deliverable content.
  • Experience supporting cost analysis, roadmap development or business-case economics.

PREFERRED ASSETS & VALUED SKILLS

  • Public-sector or regulated-organization experience.
  • Familiarity with SAS Viya or SAS Customer Intelligence 360 environments.
  • Experience governing customer, marketing and digital-behaviour data, including privacy and consent.
  • Exposure to governance and controls for cloud data platforms (such as Snowflake or Databricks) and managed-cloud hosting models.
  • Experience contributing to current-state cost baselines for data platforms and hosting.