Data Governance Lead

Data Governance lead in Mexico City (CDMX)

This is with our financial customer

The candidate should be based in Mexico City (CDMX).

We are looking for a Sr Data Engineer and Data Governance lead.

The Data Governance Lead supports the bank s enterprise data governance program by ensuring that critical data is well-defined, high-quality, traceable, and compliant with regulatory and internal policy requirements. This role partners with business, technology, risk, and compliance teams to operationalize governance standards across data domains.

Key Responsibilities

1. Maintain business data definitions, ownership, stewardship, and critical data elements (CDEs).
2. Support implementation of enterprise data governance policies, standards, and operating models.
3. Maintain governance artifacts in enterprise tools (e.g., Collibra, DataHub, Alation).
4. Assist in defining data quality rules, thresholds, and KPIs aligned to business and regulatory needs.
5. Monitor data quality metrics and identify data issues and trends.
6. Coordinate data quality issue remediation with business and technology teams.
7. Document and validate end-to-end data lineage from source systems to reports.
8. Ensure lineage documentation is current, accurate, and audit ready.
9. Act as a bridge between business users, data stewards, engineers, and risk teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in business, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field.
• 4 7+ years experience in data governance, data management, or data analysis.
• Experience in a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and lineage concepts.
• Experience supporting audits or regulatory reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with governance platforms (Collibra, DataHub, Alation).
• Familiarity with BCBS 239, CDMC, DAMA-DMBOK.
• Understanding of modern data architectures (cloud, APIs, lakes, warehouses).
• Experience writing user stories and working with Jira / Confluence.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.