Data Cloud Governance Manager
Location: East Hanover, NJ – Hybrid (3 days onsite and 2 days remote)
Experience: 5+ years in data governance, privacy, security, risk, compliance, or platform governance
Job Purpose
The Data Cloud Governance Manager will own and maintain the governance framework for enterprise Salesforce Data Cloud capabilities. This role ensures that data access, security, privacy, classification, masking, encryption, and cross-platform data sharing follow established policies and regulatory requirements.
The position will collaborate with IT, architecture, security, privacy, legal, and data engineering teams to implement practical governance controls, manage compliance risks, and enable secure and scalable data usage across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and maintain enterprise data governance policies, including attribute-based access controls, data tagging, dynamic masking, encryption, and data-sharing standards.
- Manage governance requests involving access policies, privacy controls, compliance requirements, and policy exceptions.
- Assess Data Streams, Data Lake Objects, integrations, and business use cases for security, privacy, and regulatory risks, including PII and PHI where applicable.
- Translate governance policies into technical requirements, epics, features, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
- Maintain a prioritized governance backlog based on risk, business value, dependencies, and platform delivery capacity.
- Review security, privacy, and compliance requirements for new data capabilities before implementation and release.
- Partner with IT, architecture, security, privacy, legal, and engineering teams to design, validate, and implement governance controls.
- Conduct governance reviews and monitor access configurations, encryption, masking, tagging, and cross-boundary data sharing.
- Identify compliance gaps, document audit findings, assign remediation actions, and track closure.
- Develop reusable standards, templates, and guidelines to help teams build compliant data solutions.
- Communicate governance decisions, approvals, exceptions, risks, and requirements to business and technical stakeholders.
- Ensure governance controls are measurable, auditable, and consistently implemented across the platform.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Data, Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in data governance, data privacy, information security, risk, compliance, or platform governance.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data controls, including access management, data classification, tagging, masking, encryption, consent, retention, and controlled data sharing.
- Experience translating regulatory and enterprise policies into technical standards and implementation requirements.
- Ability to collaborate across business, IT, architecture, security, privacy, legal, and data engineering teams.
- Strong analytical, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Prior pharma or life sciences experience is required.
- Local candidates in New Jersey who can meet the hybrid schedule are preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce Data Cloud governance, data models, Data Streams, Data Lake Objects, and platform access controls.
- Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
- Knowledge of agile product delivery, audit evidence, risk-based controls, and enterprise architecture governance.
