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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Governance & MDM Lead - **Company:** Negocios IT Solutions (P) LTD - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Data Governance, Data Retention, Metadata, Metadata Standards, Standard Sql, Collibra, SAP MDG, Data Management - **Published:** October 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a5e413aa-948d-4175-9f51-3975128db849 ## About the Role * 10+ years in data management, with at least 4 years leading data governance, data quality, or MDM work. * Led at least one governance program from inception: charter, council, stewardship model, and policies, not only tool implementation. * Fluency in DAMA-DMBOK knowledge areas, especially governance, data quality, metadata, and reference and master data. * Hands-on experience with at least one data catalog or governance platform, such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica Axon/CD Microsoft Purview, or Atlan. * Hands-on experience with at least one MDM platform, such as Informatica MDM, Reltio, Profisee, Stibo STEP, or SAP MDG. * Ability to facilitate executive and cross-functional working sessions and to hold business owners accountable without formal authority over them. * Strong writing: policies, charters, and steering-committee material that executives will actually read. Nice to have * CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) certification from DAMA International. * Experience with the EDM Council's DCAM framework or another maturity assessment model. * Background in regulated industries or with regulatory drivers such as SOX, GDPR, CCPA, or HIPAA. * Supply chain, manufacturing, or finance master data experience (supplier, material, customer, chart of accounts). * SQL skills sufficient to profile data and validate quality rules yourself. * Consulting or professional services background. ## Description Our client is building a data governance program from the ground up, and we need the person who will make it real. You will stand up the operating model and the organization behind it: who decides, who stewards, which policies apply, how quality gets measured, and how master data stays clean once it is fixed. The job is roughly two-thirds organizational and one-third technical. Most governance programs stall on adoption, not tooling, so we want someone who has gotten business owners to show up to a council meeting and keep showing up. What you will do * Program standup: Assess current maturity, then write the governance charter, scope, roadmap, and success measures with the client's executive sponsor. * Operating model: Design the governance structure (centralized, federated, or hybrid), stand up the executive steering committee and data governance council, and set their cadence, decision rights, and escalation paths. * Roles and accountability: Define data owner, data steward, and data custodian roles; build the RACI; and help the client identify, onboard, and train the people who fill them. * Policies and standards: Draft and gain approval for data governance policy, data quality standards, metadata standards, and data retention and classification guidelines, aligned with the client's privacy and compliance obligations. * Business glossary and critical data elements: Lead the identification of critical data elements for priority domains and drive definitions, ownership, and approval workflow in the glossary. * Data quality management: Define quality dimensions (completeness, accuracy, validity, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness), write measurable rules for critical data elements, stand up scorecards, and run an issue-management process with root-cause tracking. * Master data management: Define MDM strategy for priority domains such as customer, supplier, material/product, or chart of accounts. Lead match-and-merge rules, survivorship logic, golden-record design, and the stewardship workflow for exceptions. * Metadata and lineage: Guide configuration of the catalog and lineage tooling so stewards and analysts can find, trust, and trace data. * Change management and communication: Build the training, communication plan, and adoption metrics that move governance from a document to daily practice. * Reporting: Report program health, quality trends, and decisions to the steering committee each cycle. ## Related Videos - [A Data Mesh needs Open Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/505-a-data-mesh-needs-open-metadata) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [Bringing Clarity to Event Streams: Enabling Analytics and AI Through Rich Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1616-bringing-clarity-to-event-streams-enabling-analytics-and-ai-through-rich-metadata) - [Crafting Custom Frameworks with Rust: A Deep Dive into Procedural Macros](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/849-crafting-custom-frameworks-with-rust-a-deep-dive-into-procedural-macros) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) ## Related Articles - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know)