Manager, Data Transformation & Governance

The Manager, Data Transformation & Governance will lead governance activities for the integration of acquired-company data, ensuring governance principles are built into data migration, integration, modernization, archival, and analytics enablement efforts. The role commonly serves as, or directly supports, the assigned steward for integration data domains, carrying day-to-day responsibility for governance, quality, metadata, and compliant use within that scope. It partners with business leaders, data owners and stewards, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Privacy, Legal and Risk, records and retention stakeholders, service line quality groups, application teams, and implementation partners to define governance scope, establish quality and control expectations, support data readiness, and ensure transformation initiatives deliver trustworthy, governed, and usable data assets., Apply and extend enterprise data governance frameworks to acquired-company integration, covering standards, roles, ownership expectations, stewardship routines, escalation paths, and performance metrics, and adapt them to entity-specific circumstances without departing from firm requirements.

Embed governance requirements into data transformation initiatives, including data migration, integration, modernization, archival, reporting, and analytics enablement activities.

Establish and maintain a view of the full data estate for each acquisition, spanning structured application data alongside mailboxes, file storage, collaboration sites, chat and meeting content, service management records, and line-of-business repositories.

Catalog acquired-company content by category, sensitivity, ownership, business purpose, and disposition, and maintain that inventory as the authoritative reference for integration planning.

Advise tenant consolidation, application, infrastructure, service management, and end user technology teams on how each category of content should be handled during migration, including what moves, what is archived, what is left behind, and what must be preserved in place pending further review.

Assess unstructured and semi-structured content for regulated, privileged, personal, and client-confidential material, and define handling, access, and protection requirements before that content is moved or made broadly accessible.

Drive identification and assignment of accountable data owners for acquired-company data domains before that data is ingested, transformed, or made available for new use, and escalate where ownership cannot be established.

Obtain and document owner approval for new or materially changed use of data, and maintain traceable evidence of those approvals.

Manage the review and approval path for external sharing and third-party access, including implementation partners and offshore delivery teams, and confirm approvals are in place before access is granted.

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6+ years of experience in data governance, data transformation, data management, data quality, data integration, records and information management, data privacy and compliance, analytics, or related enterprise technology roles.

Demonstrated experience applying data governance principles to data migration, integration, modernization, archival, analytics, or large-scale transformation programs.

Experience governing unstructured and semi-structured content alongside structured data, including mail, file storage, collaboration platforms, and service management records.

Working knowledge of records retention practice, including retention scheduling, record category definitions, retention triggers, and defensible disposal.

Familiarity with legal hold and preservation obligations, including how holds are issued, communicated, tracked, and released, and their effect on routine disposal.

Experience supporting merger, acquisition, divestiture, or acquired-company technology and data integration initiatives preferred.

Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data ownership, data stewardship, critical data elements, data quality management, metadata, lineage, catalog and glossary practice, retention, and governed data delivery.

Experience defining and managing data quality rules, profiling activities, remediation plans, reconciliation processes, issue tracking, and readiness metrics.

Familiarity with data governance technologies such as data catalogs, metadata management platforms, lineage tools, MDM platforms, data quality tools, workflow tools, or data issue management capabilities.

Working knowledge of data protection and compliance requirements, including privacy, classification, access management, masking, retention, and internal policy controls.

Familiarity with retention and documentation requirements arising from professional standards in an audit, tax, or advisory environment, or demonstrated ability to work within a comparable regulated setting.

Ability to partner with business leaders across functions, translate governance concepts into practical transformation requirements, and drive alignment across business and technology teams.

Strong project management, change management, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, communication, and executive reporting skills.

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; relevant data governance, privacy, records management, security, project management, or cloud and data certifications preferred. Experience operating in a professional services, consulting, accounting, or complex global enterprise environment.

Experience with governance and data platform tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Snowflake, Power BI, ServiceNow, or comparable technologies.

Experience applying retention, classification, and eDiscovery capabilities across mail, file storage, and collaboration platforms at enterprise scale.

Experience supporting data archival, historical data retention, legacy system decommissioning, or compliance-driven data preservation initiatives.

Experience developing governance playbooks, stewardship operating models, data readiness checklists, data quality scorecards, issue management routines, and executive dashboards.

Experience working with implementation partners, systems integrators, vendors, or consulting teams within complex transformation programs.

Experience facilitating cross-functional governance forums, data decision groups, or working sessions with business, technology, risk, legal, privacy, and security stakeholders.

Experience with cross-border data handling, including data residency, local privacy requirements, and jurisdictional retention differences.