Data Governance Lead_Houston, TX

Job Title: Data Governance Lead
Location: 4 days onsite in Houston, TX

Job Description:

• Proven experience operationalizing Data Governance frameworks, updating runbooks, and integrating Data & AI standards.
• Ability to define data asset certification processes, enhance governance structures, and align domain/sub domain models with access management.
• Skilled in formalizing and enabling Data Owner, Data Steward, and Technical Owner roles, including developing role definitions and delivering training.
• Hands on experience with Atlan and Monte Carlo for configuration, integrations, lineage build out, data quality monitoring, and issue remediation workflows.
• Ability to assess and improve AI/analytics tool interoperability, prioritize integrations, and establish standards aligned access and permissions.
• Strong capabilities in data quality reporting, KPI creation, root cause analysis, and ongoing governance compliance reporting (including Data Health Score formulas).
• Experience building and maintaining governance content hubs (e.g., SharePoint) and driving community engagement through training and enablement.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills to advise and consult teams on Data Governance best practices, standards adoption, and appropriate use of data tools.
• Experience supporting enterprise wide Data Governance initiatives, including standards harmonization, cross domain alignment, and coordination across business and technical teams.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with agentic AI for data cleansing, metadata improvement, and prototype/MVP delivery.
• Workflow & Playbook Automation: Ability to automate governance tasks using Atlan’s API driven playbooks (e.g., bulk tagging, glossary propagation, asset certification).
• Automated Metadata Enrichment: Experience using Atlan AI and agentic workflows to automate descriptions, README creation, and metadata suggestions.
• Google Cloud Platform Integration & Migration: Expertise migrating Google Cloud Platform/BigQuery tags into Atlan and automating the identification/prioritization of assets for ingestion.
• End to End Lineage Automation: Skilled in defining methods and building lineage across diverse tool stacks, including systems without native integrations.