Data Architecture & Governance Manager - Global Employer Services Technology
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Work You'll Do
As a Data Architecture and Governance Manager within the business-aligned GES Technology group, you will oversee all aspects of data architecture, data modeling, governance, and operations. You will be responsible for defining the target-state data architecture for data and analytics, enterprise data models and embedding governance practices that improve data quality, compliance, and business value. You will have the opportunity to partner with a team of experienced product owners, product managers and leaders from other key workstreams in the practice and will be supported by a team of experienced practitioners.
- Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture, data models, standards, and roadmap aligned to business and analytics priorities.
- Lead the design of scalable, secure, and modern data platforms, including data lakes, warehouses, semantic layers, and integration patterns.
- Establish and operationalize data governance frameworks covering data ownership, stewardship, metadata, lineage, quality, privacy, retention, and access controls.
- Partner with business, engineering, security, and analytics leaders to prioritize data domains and enable trusted, high-value data products.
- Create and enforce architecture principles, reference models, and design standards for structured and unstructured data.
- Drive master data, reference data, and common data model strategies to improve consistency across systems and reporting.
- Oversee data quality management, including rules, controls, monitoring, issue remediation, and governance forums.
- Guide the selection and implementation of data governance, catalog, lineage, and quality tooling.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy requirements relevant to data management and usage.
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the data architecture and governance team and implement best practices.
- Develop and enforce data security policies to protect sensitive information and comply with legal and regulatory requirements such as GDPR.
- Monitor and assess data security risks and vulnerabilities and implement measures to mitigate them.
- Train and develop your team of data professionals.
Qualifications
Required:
- Ability to perform job responsibilities within a hybrid work model that requires US Tax professionals to co-locate in person 2 - 3 days per week.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in data architecture, data management, or enterprise data leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience in data management consulting or industry roles, with a focus on master data management (MDM), data governance, metadata, data architecture, data quality, data modeling, and data standards
- Hands-on implementation experience with leading data management platforms such as Informatica (MDM, 360, Data Catalog) and/or Reltio (Multi-domain MDM, Intelligent 360, advanced data models) and /or cloud-based data lakes and warehouse technologies (Apache Iceberg, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake).
- Demonstrated experience in defining and implementing data products, data catalogs and marketplaces.
- Demonstrated experience transforming complex business requirements into scalable data models and semantic layers for analytics and agentic AI use cases.
- Experience leading workstreams for data management engagements with teams distributed across multiple locations, including facilitating cross-functional workshops with technology, data, compliance, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and design solutions.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
- One of the following accreditations obtained:
- Licensed CPA in state of practice/primary office if eligible to sit for the CPA
- If not CPA eligible:
- Licensed attorney
- Enrolled Agent
- Technology Certifications
- IASA's Certified IT Architect (CITA) (Level F or A)
- Open Group Certified Architect - Open CA
- Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls (CRISC)
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- CBAP® - Certified Business Analysis Professional
- Alteryx Designer - Advanced Certification
- Open Group Certified IT Specialist - Open CITS
- Oracle Certified Professional
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert - MCSE
- ITIL Certification
- Certified SAFe Architect
- Six Sigma - Green or Black Belt
- Project Management Professional - PMP
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master
- Data management and enterprise architecture (DAMA, CDMP, TOGAF)
- Data platform specialist (Databricks, Data Engineer Associate/Professional, SnowPro, Core and SnowPro Advanced Architect for Snowflake) Generative AI (AWS AI Practitioner, AWS Generative AI Developer Professional, NVIDIA Generative AI LLMs, and Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate)
- Agentic AI (NVIDIA Certified Professional: Agentic AI LLMs)
- Skilled in supporting data integration (ETL/ELT) and data quality frameworks
- Strong understanding of data security, access controls, and privacy principles.
- Hands on experience with Data Management and Data Engineering.
- Experience with defining data standards and developing Enterprise data models.
- Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance considerations in data environments.
- Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and leading enterprise-wide initiatives.
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop a team of data professionals.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
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