Data Governance Manager

Enterprise Data Governance Manager

About the role

As an Enterprise Data Governance Manager, you will help bring our data governance framework to life across the organisation. Your focus will be making sure data is trusted and secure, and that it meets business and regulatory needs. You will draw on strong expertise in data quality, metadata and stewardship to get there.

Alongside this, you will be a genuine partner to the Director rather than a follower of what already exists, with real freedom to shape how governance is implemented. Your data will span members, candidates and the CFA Program, where much of the information is proprietary and confidential, so learning quickly how CFA Institute works as a membership organisation matters as much as your technical depth.

What you'll do

• Framework and operating model: Help roll out and mature our enterprise data governance framework and recommend the standards and policies that go with it.
• Projects and workstreams: Run governance projects from plan to delivery, including data quality remediation, glossary build-out and steward onboarding.
• Metrics and remediation: Define and track governance metrics, find the root cause of complex data issues and work with Data Engineering to build controls into our platforms.
• Data quality dashboards: Give data owners and leaders a clear view of data health and remediation progress.
• Metadata and cataloguing: Set metadata standards and drive adoption of the data catalogue and business glossary.
• Regulation and risk: Align data practices with privacy, records retention and regulatory needs, and keep us audit ready.
• Stewardship and training: Lead working groups and steward forums, and train stewards and domain owners.
• Governance by design: Build governance checkpoints into project intake, system implementation and vendor onboarding.

What you'll bring

• A bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years in data governance, data management, with hands-on experience putting governance into practice, including ownership, classification, metadata and data quality.
• Knowledge of industry frameworks and the ability to turn them into workable processes that don't disrupt the business.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data platforms (cloud data lakes, Snowflake, Azure, AWS, GCP) and data catalogue or quality tools. The concepts matter more than the brand. You'll also need an understanding of SQL and the modern data stack.
• Comfortable with project plans, requirements and KPIs, and able to break a roadmap into value-driven sprints.
• Strong working familiarity with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Able to steer governance towards the data that matters most and to learn quickly how a membership organisation works.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts in business terms and to build consensus across business and IT without relying on executive mandates.
• Adaptable and patient in the face of organisational inertia and inclined to offer options rather than impose change.
• CDMP, DAMA-DMBOK, CDAM or CDMC familiarity, and an asset management or wider financial services background.

Why join us

• Autonomy and influence: Plenty of leeway to shape how governance is implemented, as a partner to the Director in running the programme.
• Build opportunity: Help turn a newly designed framework into a live, enterprise-wide programme in a fast-moving, start-up-style environment.
• Executive exposure: High visibility with senior executive leadership.
• Growth: Room to grow within data governance as the team develops, and into wider opportunities across CFA Institute.
• Data that matters: Work with member, candidate and CFA Program data at the heart of a global investment profession.

Compensation and Benefits

At CFA Institute, we are committed to transparency and equity in our hiring process. In compliance with wage transparency laws in many of the jurisdictions in which we recruit, we provide the following information regarding compensation for this position:

Expected salary range:

US - National Locations: $95,600 - $150,000 per year.

US - Metro Locations: $119,500 - $165,000 per year.

Actual salary within the stated ranges will depend on the individual's experience, qualifications, skills, location, and other job-related factors. Additional benefits include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive bonus, a 12% employer contribution to a 401(k) or pension plan, and a comprehensive medical benefits package.

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Work Authorisation and Sponsorship

Applicants who currently require, or may in the future require, visa sponsorship to work in the country where this role is based should be aware that CFA Institute does not normally provide visa sponsorship for new employees and does not anticipate doing so for this position.

Location Eligibility

Applicants should be aware that this position is approved for hire only in the location(s) listed in this job posting. Eligibility will be assessed based on an applicant's current ability to work from a location listed in this job posting at the time of application, and CFA Institute is unable to progress applications from individuals who are currently unable to work from the advertised hiring location(s), including where relocation is planned for a future date.

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