Data Governance Manager

The Data Governance Manager is responsible for leading the development and implementation of the organizations data governance strategy. This role ensures the integrity quality and security of data across the enterprise while also driving compliance with regulatory requirements and supporting business objectives. The new role will be responsible for managing company-wide data governance activities. Head of DG is responsible for developing and implementing data governance policies monitoring adherence to data standards and providing guidance on data management practices. This role involves ensuring data quality consistency and security across entire organization.Key Challenges:Understanding the Business Value of Data Governance: Demonstrating how data governance enhances data quality and supports informed business decisions is crucial. Hance ensuring that data governance is seen as a strategic asset rather than just a compliance requirement.Clarifying Ownership and Responsibility: Effective data governance requires collaboration across business units with clear roles and responsibilities for data management. Head of DG is responsible to coordinate Data Communities.Ensuring Data Quality: Maintaining high data quality is a continuous challenge. This involves implementing data validation checks data cleaning processes and regular audits to ensure data accuracy and reliability. Addressing issues related to inaccurate incomplete or inconsistent data.Compliance with Regulations: Keeping up with evolving data protection regulations and ensuring compliance such as GDPR and SOX. That requires constant vigilance and adaptation of data governance frameworks.Data Governance Framework: This involves implementing policies standards rules and procedures around data governance. Integrating data from various sources while maintaining consistency and quality can be complex. Effective data governance frameworks are needed to manage this integration.Tracking Data Lineage: Ensuring accurate tracking of datas origin movement and transformations across the organization.Managing Siloed Data: Breaking down data silos and ensuring data integration across departments.Cultural Change - Promoting a Data-Driven Culture: Encouraging a culture where data governance is valued and practiced by everyone in the organization. Promoting a data-driven culture within the organization can be challenging. It requires ongoing training and awareness programs to ensure employees understand the importance of data governance and their roles in it.  Key Responsibilities:Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive data governance strategy that aligns with the organizations goals and regulatory requirements.Policy Development:  Provide guidance on data lifecycle management data contract data privacy and data security. Establish and enforce data governance policies standards and procedures to ensure data quality security and compliance.Data Quality Management: Oversee data quality initiatives including data profiling cleansing and remediation efforts to ensure accurate and reliable data. Oversee data quality initiatives to maintain accurate consistent and reliable data. Analyze and address data-related issues identifying opportunities for improvement.Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with senior leaders business units privacy team and IT teams to promote data governance best practices and ensure alignment with business objectives.Implementation of Data Governance Tools: Select implement and manage data governance tools and technologies to support data governance initiatives and ensure efficient data management.Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with data privacy and protection regulations such as SOX and GDPR by implementing robust data governance frameworks.Data Communities: Lead the data stewardship program assigning roles and responsibilities for data management across the organization.Training and Awareness: Develop and deliver training programs to educate employees on data governance policies procedures and best practices.Performance Monitoring: Implement metrics and reporting mechanisms to monitor the effectiveness of data governance initiatives and drive continuous improvement.Qualifications:Education: Bachelors degree in IT Service Management Computer Science or a related field. A Masters degree or relevant certifications (e.g. PMP CDMP) are highly desirable.Experience: Proven experience in data governance data management data compliance and project management or a related field with a proven track record at a senior level. Knowledge of industry regulations such as GDPR and SOX.Skills: Strong understanding of data governance frameworks data quality management data security and privacy regulations. Excellent leadership communication and project management skills. Strong understanding of data quality metadata management and data security. Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams Additional informationAt Sportradar we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs facilities and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) we believe skills evolve over time. If youre willing to learn and grow with us we invite you to join our teamAdditional Information : At Sportradar we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs facilities and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) we believe skills evolve over time. If youre willing to learn and grow with us we invite you to join our teamRemote Work : NoEmployment Type : Full-time Key Skills SQL,Data Collection,GCP,Master Data Management,R,Data Management,Clinical Trials,User Acceptance Testing,Data Warehouse,SAS,Oracle,Data Analysis Skills Experience: years Vacancy: 1