Role overview

Job title: Data Governance Dev

Location: Hybrid mode Toronto / London ON.

Job Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities

Data Governance & Stewardship

Support implementation and operationalization of the enterprise Data Governance framework.
Establish and maintain Data Owner, Data Steward, and Data Custodian responsibilities across critical data domains.
Facilitate governance working groups and support governance decision-making.
Develop and maintain governance policies, standards, procedures, and controls.
Maintain governance artifacts including glossaries, ownership matrices, issue logs, and governance KPIs.

Metadata & Data Catalog

Partner with business and technology teams to capture business and technical metadata.
Develop and maintain business glossary terms, data definitions, critical data elements (CDEs), classifications, and ownership information.
Support enterprise data catalog adoption and metadata enrichment.
Validate relationships between business definitions, source systems, data models, and reporting/analytics assets.
Support end-to-end data lineage documentation.

Data Quality

Define and document data quality rules in partnership with business stakeholders.
Support profiling and identification of data quality issues.
Establish measures around accuracy, completeness, consistency, validity, timeliness, and uniqueness.
Coordinate remediation of data quality issues with business and technical teams.
Track data quality exceptions, root causes, ownership, remediation plans, and closure.
Support development of data quality dashboards and scorecards.

Data Privacy, Classification & Controls

Assist with classification of confidential, sensitive, personal, and regulated data.
Partner with privacy, security, legal, and compliance stakeholders to align governance requirements.
Support documentation of data access, retention, usage, and protection requirements.
Help identify governance and control gaps across the data lifecycle.

3 7+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, MDM, Business Analysis, or related data roles.