Enterprise Data Governance Associates

Enterprise Data Governance Associates -Houston, TX

Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)

Duration: long term contract

Step 2 - Target the right types of roles

People rarely use the title "Data Governance Manager."

Search for:

Most common real-world titles

• Data Governance Lead / Manager
• Data Governance Architect
• Enterprise Data Architect
• Data Management Lead
• Data Stewardship Lead
• Data & Analytics Governance Lead
• Data Management Office Lead
• Data Quality Lead
• Metadata Management Lead
• MDM Lead (Master Data Management)

Also look for:

• Enterprise Data Architect
• Information Management Lead
• Data Risk & Compliance Lead

Step 3 - Keywords that matter

In resumes or LinkedIn, look for:

Governance tools

• Collibra
• Alation
• Informatica EDC / Axon
• Microsoft Purview
• Apache Atlas
• Talend Data Catalog
• IBM InfoSphere
• DataHub
• Atlan

Governance concepts

• Data catalog
• Data lineage
• Business glossary
• Data ownership models
• Data stewardship
• Data quality frameworks
• Metadata management
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Data classification
• Data retention
• PII governance
• Regulatory compliance

Migration keywords (important for this job)

Because they are moving to AWS:

Look for:

• AWS data migration
• Cloud data governance
• Lakehouse governance
• S3 governance
• Glue Data Catalog
• Lake Formation
• Snowflake governance
• Databricks governance
• Data mesh / data fabric

Step 4 - Screen for the RIGHT experience

Ask candidates:

Execution questions

• "Have you stood up governance from scratch?"
• "What tools did you implement?"
• "How did you get business teams to follow governance?"
• "How did governance change reporting or data quality?"
• "What resistance did you face?"