Senior Data Governance Lead

Job Description

Insight Global is looking for a Senior Data Governance Lead for one of our customers in the Life Sciences industry. The Senior Data Governance Lead is a senior-level data management expert responsible for defining and executing data governance strategy across an enterprise data marketplace. This role shapes how data products are owned, governed, published, and consumed, balancing IT-managed data with business-led self-service analytics. The ideal candidate brings deep governance expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate strategy into practical, scalable deliverables that enable trusted data use across the organization.

This role is hands-on and strategic, focused on creating governance frameworks, operating models, data quality standards, and training materials that guide execution. You will define what "good" data looks like by establishing data quality rules and success measures, while providing direction to global execution teams. Partnering closely with business stakeholders across supply chain, commercial, and R&D, you will support adoption by enabling users to effectively engage with the data marketplace and catalog, and by defining clear engagement models between IT and business data teams. Comfort working in an AWS-based data environment and collaborating across technical and non-technical teams is essential to ensure governance accelerates, rather than restricts, data value.

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Skills and Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or Data Quality, with senior-level scope and ownership

• Strong knowledge of data governance best practices, operating models, and data lifecycle management

• Experience designing governance for data marketplaces and self-service analytics environments

• Proven ability to create strategy and execution content (e.g., governance frameworks, operating models, presentations, training materials)

• Experience defining data quality rules, standards, and success measures (without hands-on coding responsibility)

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively with business and technical teams

• Experience guiding or providing direction to analysts or execution teams in a matrixed or global environment

• Working knowledge of AWS-based data platforms (e.g., S3, Redshift, Glue) and how they support analytics use cases

• Ability to operate independently and lead through influence rather than direct authority - Experience with AWS DataZone or similar data marketplace technologies

• Familiarity with data catalog tools (e.g., Alation or similar platforms)

• Working knowledge of SQL Server environments

• Exposure to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio or advanced analytics platforms

• General understanding of Master Data Management (MDM) concepts, including SAP-based MDM environments

• Experience supporting data governance across supply chain, commercial, and R&D domains