Data Governance Lead
Thales
- Ottawa, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establish and lead a program-wide Data Strategy & Governance initiative comprised of data stewardship and data quality accountabilities for program data assets; Effectively communicate the strategic value and impact of data governance to teams, gaining support and investment to meet governance, organization and technology needs
- Work with team leads to develop and align on procedural and systematic data standards that ensure timeliness and quality, while complying with data privacy and protection regulations
- Reinforce program data governance principles and processes and promote adoption across data management systems and teams
- Facilitate resolution of complex issues related to conflicting data ownership, data and rule definitions, data availability and usage across a broad network of stakeholders
- Nominate, lead, motivate, and grow newly established team of data Owners, Data stewards, while coordinating data steward community of practice; Oversee management of Data Governance toolset, providing direction on a data model.
- Understand how different disciplines interact and use/share data; Align the integration of systems and teams to the data model; Understand and drive a data maturity model
- Proven effectiveness in achieving consensus across a broad array of stakeholders; Ability to apply and coach the principles of data excellence, including development of problem statements and best practice action plans.
- Proven ability to plan and provide status for the work; Proven ability to roll out a Data Governance project
- Experience working with ETL, BI Analytics and enterprise governance tools such as SAP, IBM Infosphere, Cognos, Power BI, SAS, SSIS; Experience with data modeling techniques and languages; Experience in a Data Governance Lead role and/or Data Integration, Information Architecture roles, Business Intelligence and Analytics Solution Architecture Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP or IBM Maximo; Experience with In-service-support; Windchill;
- Bachelor's degree, computer science or related technical degree; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Travel: Maximum 4 national trips per year.
- Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
- Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
- Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
- Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.
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