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Data Product Governance Lead

AHEAD· Shared Services – Information Technology
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Remote$150k - $175kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

The Data Product Governance Lead develops and operationalizes standards and capabilities to make data products on AHEAD's Data Platform discoverable, trusted, and ready for use. Leads publication, catalog, lineage, metadata, certification, and governance capabilities, working hands-on with Snowflake and collaborating with Data Platform engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Define the standards a data product must meet before publication and update as needed.
  • Establish required information for published data products (business/technical definitions, ownership, source, refresh, lineage, quality, classification, access, data contracts).
  • Define publication and certification standards aligning with medallion architecture.
  • Define and maintain publication criteria for domain-contributed data products and automate checks where practical.
  • Define certification/readiness indicators for consumer trust and impact of changes in quality/ownership.
  • Create reusable templates and guidance for domain teams to meet publication requirements.
  • Establish metadata standards and provide useful context without excessive documentation.
  • Define lineage across source systems, ingestion, transformations, published products, and downstream consumption; identify automation gaps.
  • Define data quality requirements and a common representation of quality/health across the platform.
  • Partner with domain teams/engineers to implement dataset-specific quality rules and monitoring; surface quality status in the catalog.
  • Define standards for data contracts (schema, semantics, ownership, service expectations, versioning, change management).
  • Set expectations for changes to published data products to help downstream consumers prepare.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years in data governance, data products, data platforms, data architecture, analytics engineering, technical product management, or related fields.
  • Hands-on experience implementing governance capabilities (catalog, metadata, lineage) in a modern cloud data platform.
  • Experience defining and implementing data product standards (ownership, certification criteria, documentation, discoverability, lifecycle management).
  • Experience defining data quality and data contract standards (freshness, completeness, schema versioning, change management).
  • Working knowledge of RBAC, data classification, masking, and row/column-level access controls.
  • Experience owning a technical product backlog or roadmap and prioritizing based on user/business needs.
  • Experience collaborating with data engineers and translating policy/user needs into engineering-ready requirements.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams.

Skills

Required:Data governanceProduct management
Nice to have:Snowflake / Horizon Catalog

Benefits

  • Not specified in the job description
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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