FunctionIT<h1>Our Company</h1>We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.<h1>Job description</h1>The TeamHitachi Vantara is looking for a knowledgeable data governance professional to continue maturing the existing data governance. The role focuses on deeper engagement with business partners and developing the existing Enterprise Data Governance and Master Data Management team. This role will help fully implement a data quality initiative and work closely with other data teams to support and build the data catalog and data quality tools. This role works collaboratively with several teams, including Legal, Privacy, and Cybersecurity to ensure an enterprise approach to data throughout the organization. The role relies on leveraging your understanding of an organic approach to data governance in areas of: data definition, data lineage, data quality, and data security, as well as contributing to data literacy across the organization.In this role you will continue the work we have begun with our business areas to build out the business glossaries and data catalog, develop a process for the approval of technology standards, write data governance policies, oversee the further adoption of data governance efforts, and partner with the legal and information security teams to fulfill Hitachi Vantara commitments related to reducing company’s Data Management risks.As the role requires close collaboration with senior-level executives (members of DG Councils/C-Suite), business data owners, and stewards, it is a must-have to be an excellent communicator who can drive the process to govern data at enterprise scale.The RoleSupport the implementation of the Data Governance strategy:<ul><li>Partner with the Data Privacy function to support compliance with all applicable data privacy regulations and policies.</li><li>Collaborates with the Business Operations, Cybersecurity, and IT to identify, recommend and/or implement processes and technologies that support successful deployment of the data governance strategy across the enterprise.</li><li>Align tactical initiatives to the data governance strategy across projects and programs.</li><li>Implement data governance strategy, controls, and capabilities including data catalog, metadata management, data quality certification, data quality metrics, reference data management, data domain hierarchy and taxonomy management, reporting and analytics governance, data classification and tagging, data architecture, and data modeling</li><li>Support Master Data Management in keeping current service levels and enhancing MDM capabilities</li><li>Enhance the data literacy program to educate executives and functional teams on importance of data and drive a data driven organizational culture</li><li>Support the execution of the data governance vision, mission, strategy, and charter.</li></ul>Lead the definition and documentation of Data Governance processes:<ul><li>Creates or supports the creation of data and system flow documentation and process maps. Work to align other key data capabilities including metadata repositories, data dictionaries, data lineage, Business Process Maps and training materials with the data and system process flows.</li><li>Lead working sessions with operational and information system owners on the onboarding of new data assets including documentation of processes, procedures, system interfaces, data dictionaries, data models and requirements for all new analytical data assets.</li><li>Identifies data quality “hot spots” or points of exposure. Determines strategies to improve data quality controls and monitoring routines to de-risk points of data quality vulnerabilities using approved tools and solutions.</li><li>Collaborate with the data lake development team to implement guidelines and controls on data.</li></ul>Drive Data Governance on an on-going basis:<ul><li>Chair Data Governance Steering Committee responsible for defining data policies and standards.</li><li>Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including leadership and executives</li><li>Continuously identifies or supports opportunities to streamline and simplify the execution of Data Transformation initiatives and data capabilities Support the organization’s efforts around master data management, metadata management, data stewardship, data privacy and security.</li><li>Actively contribute with a broad range of stakeholders as part of the Data Governance Council</li><li>Continue the Data Governance framework including determining accountabilities, progress dashboards, published minutes, decision logs, change controls, data issue management and policies.</li></ul>Operate, Monitor and Report on Data Quality Data Security:<ul><li>Lead the design, build, and execution of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise.</li><li>Take accountability for setting documentation and enforcement policies and procedures that track and ensure high data quality is created and management in alignment with business needs.</li><li>Lead the creation of defining metrics and KPIs as part of a Data Quality Scorecard as well as dashboards and reports to keep track of these metrics and KPIs.</li><li>Forge strong working relationships with business partners to analyze root cause for data defects and duplicate data issues - prioritizing remediation efforts and ensure assessment of remediation.</li><li>Assist in the implementation of data security measures including ensuring sensitive data is masked for non-authorized users</li><li>Act as a liaison to the business on the quality of data and outstanding gaps.</li><li>The Data Governance Lead Analyst plays a key execution and enablement role within the Enterprise Data Governance program. This position supports the design, implementation, and day-to-day operation of data governance practices across the organization, working closely with Data Stewards, business partners, and the Enterprise Data Governance leadership team to improve data quality, consistency, usability, and trust.</li></ul>Scope &amp; Impact<ul><li>Operational execution of enterprise data governance practices</li><li>Direct engagement with Data Stewards and business users</li><li>Improvement of data quality, clarity, and usability across domains</li><li>Contribution to a culture of data stewardship and shared accountability</li></ul>What You’ll Bring<ul><li>8 years’ experience working in data governance, data quality, analytics, or data management roles, with 12 years of overall experience</li><li>Expert understanding of data concepts such as data definitions, metadata, lineage, and quality</li><li>Ability to work cross-functionally and translate governance concepts into practical guidance and business value</li><li>Strong communication and facilitation skills</li><li>Strong experience using data catalogs or metadata management tools</li><li>Strong experience implementing a data quality program</li></ul>#LI-GG1<h1>About us</h1>We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.<h1>Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives</h1>Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.<h1>How we look after you</h1>We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world&rsquo;s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries.

Data Governance Lead

FunctionIT<h1>Our Company</h1>We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.<h1>Job description</h1>The TeamHitachi Vantara is looking for a knowledgeable data governance professional to continue maturing the existing data governance. The role focuses on deeper engagement with business partners and developing the existing Enterprise Data Governance and Master Data Management team. This role will help fully implement a data quality initiative and work closely with other data teams to support and build the data catalog and data quality tools. This role works collaboratively with several teams, including Legal, Privacy, and Cybersecurity to ensure an enterprise approach to data throughout the organization. The role relies on leveraging your understanding of an organic approach to data governance in areas of: data definition, data lineage, data quality, and data security, as well as contributing to data literacy across the organization.In this role you will continue the work we have begun with our business areas to build out the business glossaries and data catalog, develop a process for the approval of technology standards, write data governance policies, oversee the further adoption of data governance efforts, and partner with the legal and information security teams to fulfill Hitachi Vantara commitments related to reducing company’s Data Management risks.As the role requires close collaboration with senior-level executives (members of DG Councils/C-Suite), business data owners, and stewards, it is a must-have to be an excellent communicator who can drive the process to govern data at enterprise scale.The RoleSupport the implementation of the Data Governance strategy:<ul><li>Partner with the Data Privacy function to support compliance with all applicable data privacy regulations and policies.</li><li>Collaborates with the Business Operations, Cybersecurity, and IT to identify, recommend and/or implement processes and technologies that support successful deployment of the data governance strategy across the enterprise.</li><li>Align tactical initiatives to the data governance strategy across projects and programs.</li><li>Implement data governance strategy, controls, and capabilities including data catalog, metadata management, data quality certification, data quality metrics, reference data management, data domain hierarchy and taxonomy management, reporting and analytics governance, data classification and tagging, data architecture, and data modeling</li><li>Support Master Data Management in keeping current service levels and enhancing MDM capabilities</li><li>Enhance the data literacy program to educate executives and functional teams on importance of data and drive a data driven organizational culture</li><li>Support the execution of the data governance vision, mission, strategy, and charter.</li></ul>Lead the definition and documentation of Data Governance processes:<ul><li>Creates or supports the creation of data and system flow documentation and process maps. Work to align other key data capabilities including metadata repositories, data dictionaries, data lineage, Business Process Maps and training materials with the data and system process flows.</li><li>Lead working sessions with operational and information system owners on the onboarding of new data assets including documentation of processes, procedures, system interfaces, data dictionaries, data models and requirements for all new analytical data assets.</li><li>Identifies data quality “hot spots” or points of exposure. Determines strategies to improve data quality controls and monitoring routines to de-risk points of data quality vulnerabilities using approved tools and solutions.</li><li>Collaborate with the data lake development team to implement guidelines and controls on data.</li></ul>Drive Data Governance on an on-going basis:<ul><li>Chair Data Governance Steering Committee responsible for defining data policies and standards.</li><li>Manage stakeholder communication and progress reporting at various levels of the organization including leadership and executives</li><li>Continuously identifies or supports opportunities to streamline and simplify the execution of Data Transformation initiatives and data capabilities Support the organization’s efforts around master data management, metadata management, data stewardship, data privacy and security.</li><li>Actively contribute with a broad range of stakeholders as part of the Data Governance Council</li><li>Continue the Data Governance framework including determining accountabilities, progress dashboards, published minutes, decision logs, change controls, data issue management and policies.</li></ul>Operate, Monitor and Report on Data Quality Data Security:<ul><li>Lead the design, build, and execution of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise.</li><li>Take accountability for setting documentation and enforcement policies and procedures that track and ensure high data quality is created and management in alignment with business needs.</li><li>Lead the creation of defining metrics and KPIs as part of a Data Quality Scorecard as well as dashboards and reports to keep track of these metrics and KPIs.</li><li>Forge strong working relationships with business partners to analyze root cause for data defects and duplicate data issues - prioritizing remediation efforts and ensure assessment of remediation.</li><li>Assist in the implementation of data security measures including ensuring sensitive data is masked for non-authorized users</li><li>Act as a liaison to the business on the quality of data and outstanding gaps.</li><li>The Data Governance Lead Analyst plays a key execution and enablement role within the Enterprise Data Governance program. This position supports the design, implementation, and day-to-day operation of data governance practices across the organization, working closely with Data Stewards, business partners, and the Enterprise Data Governance leadership team to improve data quality, consistency, usability, and trust.</li></ul>Scope &amp; Impact<ul><li>Operational execution of enterprise data governance practices</li><li>Direct engagement with Data Stewards and business users</li><li>Improvement of data quality, clarity, and usability across domains</li><li>Contribution to a culture of data stewardship and shared accountability</li></ul>What You’ll Bring<ul><li>8 years’ experience working in data governance, data quality, analytics, or data management roles, with 12 years of overall experience</li><li>Expert understanding of data concepts such as data definitions, metadata, lineage, and quality</li><li>Ability to work cross-functionally and translate governance concepts into practical guidance and business value</li><li>Strong communication and facilitation skills</li><li>Strong experience using data catalogs or metadata management tools</li><li>Strong experience implementing a data quality program</li></ul>#LI-GG1<h1>About us</h1>We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.<h1>Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives</h1>Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.<h1>How we look after you</h1>We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.

Data Governance Lead

About the Job

About the Company

HITACHI ENERGY

Similar Jobs

Sr. Data Governance Analyst - Hybrid (Houston or Dallas TX)

Sr. Data Governance Analyst - Hybrid (Houston or Dallas TX)

Data Governance Technical Lead

Data Governance Technical Lead

Reporting & Analytics Technical Lead

Reporting & Analytics Technical Lead

Data Governance Specialist [Hybrid]

Data Governance Specialist [Hybrid]

Analytics Engineering Lead

Analytics Engineering Lead

Program Director, Data & Analytics

Program Director, Data & Analytics

Data Governance Analyst (Hybrid - Houston or Dallas, TX)

Data Governance Analyst (Hybrid - Houston or Dallas, TX)

Data Governance Analyst (Hybrid - Houston or Dallas, TX)

Data Governance Analyst (Hybrid - Houston or Dallas, TX)

Data & Analytics Manager

Data & Analytics Manager

Data Governance Technical Lead

Data Governance Technical Lead