We are looking for a skilled Data Governance Specialist to join our team at Spark Brains Pvt. Ltd. As a Data Governance Specialist, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and security of our data assets. You will be responsible for developing and implementing data governance policies, procedures, and guidelines, as well as creating and maintaining data governance frameworks. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional to contribute to the growth and success of a dynamic and innovative company.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a major services organization, with large-scale data or project management and oversight experience.
• 5 years in a senior management role, with Board level change or transformation leadership experience.
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality and data protection management practices
• Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection
• Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
• Demonstrated consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies, including communication, culture change and performance measurement system design
• Knowledge of risk data architecture and technology solutions
• Internally and externally recognized subject matter expert that influence the way things are done
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, MIS, or Information Management

Roles and Responsibilities

• Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for the development of information-based capabilities
• Roll out an enterprise-wide data governance framework, with a focus on the improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organization behavior policies and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools and data architecture
• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company’s principal information assets
• Serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology to ensure that data related business requirements for protecting sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated and well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning
• Develop & maintain inventory of the enterprise information maps, including authoritative systems, owners
• Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements
• Lead Senior Management, comprising resources from the Business and Functional areas and IT business and operations functions, to achieve their objectives; resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas data governance representatives
• In conjunction with the IT, provide progress reports to Board management and oversee periodic updates to the Department Data Governance Roadmap
• Coordinate external data sources to eliminate redundancy and streamline the expense related to those services
• Identify new business opportunities pertaining to the use of information assets to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the marketplace / represent data as a strategic business asset at the Senior Management table

Job Location: Chandigarh

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹2,500,000.00 - ₹3,000,000.00 per year