Data Governance Manager

Company: Clean Harbors
Location: Norwell
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

At Clean Harbors, we are seeking a highly skilled and enthusiastic Data Governance Manager to join our dynamic team to lead/develop this overall program. You will be leveraging your knowledge of Data best practices along with your expertise in Data Management to ensure we deliver high quality data to power strategic initiatives for the organization. This role is pivotal in developing strategies that will transform our approach to data, particularly in the realm of Cloud data transformation.

You will collaborate with global cross-functional teams, including business and technology partners and stakeholders to maximize the value of our commercial data. You will play a key role in modernizing the management of our Clean Harbors data assets and implementing an inspirational Data Governance program. You will build the Data Stewardship program by providing guidance and support for Clean Harbors data stewards to ensure alignment and consistency within our Data Governance practices. You will help drive key data components including strategy, roadmap, services, and tooling for Data Management functions like data security, data privacy, data policies and data sharing.

We are looking for someone who can bring their expertise and enthusiasm to our team, helping us to further our mission while growing professionally. If you are passionate about data and looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we would love to hear from you.

Why work for Clean Harbors?

• Health and Safety is our #1 priority and we live it 3-6-5!
• Competitive wages
• Comprehensive health benefits coverage after 30 days of full-time employment
• Group 401K with company matching component
• Opportunities for growth and development for all the stages of your career
• Generous paid time off, company paid training and tuition reimbursement
• Positive and safe work environments
  
  Responsibilities
  
  
  • Develop and implement a data governance framework- policies, procedures, and standards for managing the organization's data assets. Collaborate with domain owners to implement enterprise level data management and governance policies and standards within Clean Harbors.
  • Promote and manage data lineage; to capture the end-to-end flow of data from enterprise and 3rd party data sources into internal systems and reports.
  • Create and enforce data retention policies that define how long data should be kept and how it should be disposed of.
  • Design and implement data classification policies based on data sensitivity, criticality, and regulatory requirements.
  • Data Security and Privacy Controls: Manage data security and privacy controls.
  • Ensure data compliance with regulatory guidelines such as GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.
  • Develop and support a community of Clean Harbors Data Stewards by creating internal specific Data Governance frameworks, operating models, training materials and scorecards. Ensure data quality and data privacy by ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations and working with various departments to identify and mitigate data quality issues.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders in IT, management, and other stakeholders to align data initiatives with business goals.
  • Lead data governance meetings and communicate data standards to the team and provide training on data governance best practices across the organization.
  • Provide consulting to internal business and product owners on Data Management practices such as data security, data quality, data sharing, meta data, reference data and master data.
  • Become an expert on Clean Harbors data sources, data needs, user access security, data policies and data sharing standards across our data assets.
  • Lead and mentor the rest of the Data Management and Governance team.
    
    Qualifications
    
    
    • A Bachelor's degree in information systems, data analytics, data management, data policy development, or a similar field is typically required.
    • 10+ years' experience working in IT industry with 5+ years' experience with leading and building data governance practices, including data governance program lifecycles.
    • In-depth knowledge of data management concepts and practices such as data security, data quality, meta data, reference data, master data. data domains.
    • Knowledge of data modeling concepts and ability to interpret data modeling diagrams.
    • Understanding of privacy, risk, compliance and regulatory concerns and ability to articulate the impact to partners and stakeholders.
    • Expertise in data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI is often preferred.
    • Experience with Data management tools like Purview, Collibra, Atlassian Atlas etc. Familiarity with Azure data tools especially Purview and databases, is highly desirable.
    • Extensive database experience: A strong background in database management, including experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, is essential.
    • Experience working in Big Data repositories.
    • Familiarity with Agile project methodology and tools such as Rally/Jira
    • Project Management experience and Microsoft Project expertise
    • Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders. Excellent written and verbal communication, capacity to articulate complex data management solutions in a clear, concise way to a non-technical audience.
    • Strong attention to detail with a relentless focus on delivering accurately, efficiently, and with high quality.
    • Proven track record of thought leadership and influencing, collaborating with cross-functional teams to produce measurable results.
    • Confident taking on high importance initiatives that are ambiguous in nature, driving them to completion with minimal supervision and demonstrating a sense of ownership.
    • Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills.
      
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