Data Governance Implementation Lead

Responsibilities

• The opportunity to shape reusable data governance building blocks, including templates, ways of working and practical implementation approaches.
• Regular interaction with senior business and IT stakeholders to drive impactful change.
• What you will do Help clients turn data governance from concept into daily practice, starting with areas where business value and stakeholder buy-in are highest.
• Identify priority stakeholders, business pain points and governance gaps together with business and IT teams.
• Define clear ownership, including Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Custodians and decision forums, and support stakeholders in adopting these responsibilities.
• Facilitate workshops to align business and technical stakeholders on ownership, definitions and decision-making.
• Translate broad and ambiguous data governance challenges into clear and actionable implementation approaches.
• Support the implementation and embedding of governance into clients’ day-to-day ways of working.
• Turn successful approaches into reusable templates, playbooks and accelerators that can be applied across projects and clients.
• Collaborate with Metyis specialists across data, analytics, architecture and privacy for detailed technical implementation.

Requirements

• Comfortable, and energized, engaging senior business stakeholders directly, building those relationships yourself rather than being introduced into existing ones.
• Ability to take a broad, ambiguous mandate and structure it into a clear first starting point.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate data concepts into business value for both technical and business audiences.
• Working understanding of data platforms and why governance matters.
• Proactive, comfortable with ambiguity, and resilient.

Preferred

• Familiarity with governance frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK, CDMP) or tools (Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Microsoft Purview).
• Experience in ESG, Finance, HR, Operations, Supply Chain, or another domain where data ownership matters.
• Experience in a consulting, international, or multi-entity organization.
• Basic SQL, BI, or data platform knowledge, and awareness of GDPR or other data protection principles.

What we offer

A hands-on opportunity to help our clients build and embed data governance in practice, moving beyond theory into real business impact.

Collaboration with experienced Metyis colleagues across data, analytics, architecture, privacy, security and business consulting. Exposure to different clients, industries and complex data environments. The opportunity to grow towards broader data governance leadership while contributing to a fast-growing international and diverse team. Engagement with evolving data governance practices, industry trends and new technologies.

What you will bring

• Experience initiating a data or governance effort from scratch, including securing sponsorship and stakeholder buy-in, not only joining one that someone else already set up.
• 4 to 6 years of experience in data governance, data management, data quality, analytics, business analysis, or a related field, still growing toward a broader governance leadership role.

Nice to have

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