Platform Data Governance Lead

Job Title: Platform Data Governance Lead

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka India

Minimum Experience: 8-13 Years

Role Overview

We are looking for a Platform Data Governance Lead to own the design, implementation, and ongoing management of our enterprise data governance framework. You will define governance standards, enforce data quality practices, build and operate our data catalogue, and enable trusted, compliant data access across a federated, multi-cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement the enterprise data governance framework policies, ownership models, data contracts, and classification standards across federated domain teams
• Define and operationalize data quality standards, SLAs, and monitoring workflows; embed quality frameworks (e.g. Great Expectations) into pipelines
• Own the enterprise data catalogue (e.g. DataHub, Amundsen) deployment, metadata enrichment, lineage visibility, and self-service data discovery
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to align governance with regulatory obligations (GDPR, PII, data residency)
• Influence domain teams to adopt governance as an enabler; represent the practice in architecture forums
• Mentor mid-level engineers and analysts on governance, quality, and catalogue standards

Must-Have Skills

• Data governance frameworks enterprise policy design, data ownership models, data contracts, and stewardship operating models
• Data quality Great Expectations or equivalent; quality rule authoring, SLA definition, and pipeline-embedded checks
• Data cataloguing DataHub, Amundsen, or equivalent; metadata management, lineage tracking, and business glossary curation
• SQL and Python proficiency for data profiling, quality automation, and governance tooling
• Snowflake and Databricks / Unity Catalog governance features: RBAC, masking, classification, lineage
• Regulatory awareness GDPR, PII handling, data residency, and sensitivity classification
• 8+ years in data roles, with 3+ years in a governance, data quality, or senior IC capacity

Good to Have

• Schema registries, open table formats (Apache Iceberg), dbt governance, data mesh operating model

What We're Looking For

• Systems thinker who sees how governance, quality, and catalogue decisions interact across the full estate
• Influencer able to embed governance as an enabler across autonomous teams without central authority
• Opinionated on standards, pragmatic on adoption; strong communicator with both technical and business audiences
• Ownership-driven track record of improving data trust, reducing compliance risk, and building stewardship culture