Senior Data Governance Manager (BJ-12848)

Company Description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale - across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18000+ experts across 37 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!

Job Description

Must have Skills : Data Governance, Data Catalog, Candidate and Recruiting data domain, Snowflake,

WHAT YOU'LL DO: In a world where Data is critical for CLIENT's success, CLIENT has founded a new cross-functional team, the Global Data Product Portfolio, to create first-class, foundational global Data capabilities, products, and assets to achieve the following goals across CLIENT functions and teams:

• Enable better decision-making
• Generate new insights
• Attain operational excellence
• Minimize firm risk
• As part of this Global Data Product Portfolio, the CLIENT Global Data Stewards are responsible, within their corresponding data domain, for the design and implementation of an enterprise-wide Data strategy that democratises the usage of data across the firm by setting key sets of fully authenticated, curated, and globally integrated data products & assets, available on demand to any authorized CLIENT team.

Under the guidance of their Global Data Owner, each Global Data Steward will articulate and steer the key data initiatives (both functional and technical) in the domain, including the definition and execution of analysis, policies, quality assessments, governance & security frameworks and business processes changes (e.g. workflows) to create and evolve this new set of enterprise-wide products and assets.

Specifically, the Candidate and Recruiting Data Steward will deliver a Candidate and Recruiting Data Governance strategy, a pivotal enabler to CLIENT's Transformational programs. You will define and deliver the global data vision, roadmap and change management plan to ensure outcome-based, end to end data capture, governance, and intelligent insight for the Candidate and Recruiting data domain. You will partner with the HR, Finance, Data, Enterprise Services & IT leaders, as well as their corresponding Business Intelligence, Operations and Tech teams to realise the most relevant opportunities to accomplish our ambitious goals for the Candidate and Recruiting data domain.

You'll be supporting the key transformational HT2 (High Tech High Touch) initiative that aims to bring new tech capabilities to our Talent Acquisition (TA) community by elevating our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) landscape, unlocking productivity gains and enhancing experiences for our recruiters, sourcers, candidates, interviewers, hiring managers, and more.

The ideal candidates will have a goal-oriented mindset and enjoy working with cross-functional teams to deliver Data Governance capabilities and support exceptional Data Products. They will have 5+ years of experience in driving an increase in Data Governance maturity in large, highly complex companies. The candidate will have a good understanding of Candidate and Recruiting Data Products and Services and be well versed in common data opportunities in these areas. Finally, they should have strong communication skills with proven experience in stakeholder engagement (including senior business and technical teams) with the ability to showcase the business benefits of Data Governance.

Among your responsibilities, you will:

• Define an overall vision and roadmap for our Candidate and Recruiting Data Governance Strategy
  • Working with the Global HR Data Governance Director, the Global Data Steward for Worker data, the Data Governance CoE, and leaders in the HR and Candidate and Recruiting space, to understand the end-to-end data lifecycle for our Candidate and Recruiting Data assets to inform our data strategy
  • Understand any data opportunities from our customers, users, and business leads on Candidate and Recruiting data, especially our BI&A, HR, and Finance stakeholders. Work to define an overall strategy and roadmap for the Candidate and Recruiting Data, constituted by a set of initiatives with clear accountabilities, goals and objectives ensuring efficient Data Governance capability implementation.
  • Together with the Global Candidate and Recruiting Data Product Owner, the Global Worker and HR squad, Product Portfolio Lead and Tech Area Lead, assess the implications of our global data strategy on our Candidate and Recruiting Data Product Portfolio strategy
  • Align the Candidate and Recruiting Data Governance strategy and roadmap with our broader CLIENT Data leadership (Executive Data Council, Enterprise Data Advisory)
  • Engage in continuous discovery to better understand, anticipate, and influence our broad customer needs, and use it to refine our Candidate and Recruiting Data strategy
• Ensure sustainable delivery of customer value on the agreed Data Governance roadmap
  • Break down the roadmap initiatives into actionable deliverables, engaging cross- Product Portfolio teams as needed
  • Ensure that areas of priority are identified (e.g. Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Data Quality) and a cohesive action plan is developed to ensure impactful value-add to end customers
  • Clear narrative and articulation of Data Governance principles linked to business value-add, communicating these regularly to senior stakeholders across Data and HR.
  • Track and report on specific and measurable aligned KPIs and key results, developing metrics to measure maturing with Candidate and Recruiting data
  • Prioritise identified data opportunities clearly communicating with required stakeholders to ensure efficient delivery
  • Proactively identify and escalate risks and mitigation plans, along with key decisions, to relevant stakeholders
• Support and align with the Data Governance community (Data Governance Directors, and Data Stewards) to ensure alignment and best practice sharing
  • Engage with the other Data Stewards (particularly in the HR space) to ensure alignment and ensure the consistency of the entire Product Portfolio's Data Governance strategy
  • Foster connectedness with key squads to ensure key data opportunities and priorities are understood (i.e., HR, Finance, BI&A squads)

Qualifications

• Articulating the vision and specific business value benefits to be unlocked by an enterprise-wide data strategy, whilst setting and implementing the corresponding enterprise-wide Data Governance roadmap, working across multi-functional, diverse teams to materialise them
• Identifying the main gaps and opportunities to pursue within the Candidate and Recruiting data domain. Harmonising definitions and data flows across all functions and geographies and identifying global issues with critical data attributes/elements.
• Defining and implementing global Data Governance requirements, ensuring key capabilities and controls are implemented to enable efficient data use globally.
• Leading activities related to the Candidate and Recruiting's Data Governance strategy, including: Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Master Data mgmt., Data Quality, Data Architecture, and informing Data Product development priorities
• Sharing and adopting best practices, external and internal (across CLIENT Data Stewardship team) in Data Governance, Data Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Management and Change Management
• Collaborating with functional and technical team members (e.g. SMEs in HR, Finance, Enterprise Services and IT) to prioritise and pursue the business and technical initiatives in the roadmap to achieve a global data strategy
• Enabling CLIENT leaders to make relevant decisions (e.g. trade-offs and prioritization) to implement the global strategy defined for Candidate and Recruiting data
• Developing analytics, frameworks and KPIs to drive a step-change in Data Quality Issue management, Data Security, Data Profiling and Data Governance maturity
• Ensuring adherence to relevant data policies, standards, and guidelines, and maintaining relevant Data Governance artefacts across the data domain (for example, the Data Catalog, classification, and data quality standards of data elements)
• Communicating with senior executive teams the importance of the data strategy for the success of CLIENT

Additional Information

• CLIENT Global Data teams: the Data Product Portfolio, Data Governance CoE, Master Data Mgmt., Enterprise Data Modelling, and Data Product development teams
• CLIENT HR, Recruiting, Finance and Data teams; business intelligence and analytics, operations, and technical teams, among other business functions
• CLIENT Leadership: Heads of HR, Recruiting, Finance, and Enterprise Services among other business functions.
• The Data Governance network: Data Owners, Stewards, and Data Governance Directors