Data Strategy and Governance Manager
About the role
The Data Strategy and Governance Manager will help clients design, implement, and mature enterprise data strategy and data governance programs that support data quality, cloud transformation, analytics, AI readiness, and long-term business value.
FormativGroup provides technology consulting and engineering services that help mid-sized enterprises modernize operations, streamline data architecture, integrate applications, and enable AI-driven workflows. This role sits within the Data & Analytics practice and will serve as both a trusted client advisor and internal delivery leader.
As a Data Strategy and Governance Manager, you will advise clients on end-to-end solutions across data strategy, data management, data architecture, data pipelines, cloud transformation, AI readiness, master data management, governance councils, data hygiene, and data quality. You will also support business development, methodology development, team leadership, and delivery execution for data governance assessments and implementations.
What You'll Work On
As Data Strategy and Governance Manager, you will:
- Design and develop data governance technology solutions across data quality, data dictionaries, business glossaries, data standards, and data policies.
- Design end-to-end data architecture and data flow models that support analytics, AI/ML, and application integration use cases.
- Define organizational design, governance processes, policies, roles, responsibilities, success metrics, and operating models for client data programs.
- Lead and collaborate with data governance teams to create business cases, resource plans, implementation roadmaps, and enterprise data system assessments.
- Assess current-state environments, identify client pain points and requirements, and help define a practical vision and strategy for becoming a data-driven organization.
- Build roadmaps covering technology, culture, governance, processes, skills, competencies, data quality, analytics, and data management maturity.
- Advise clients as a trusted partner and provide thought leadership on data governance, data management, cloud transformation, AI readiness, and related best practices.
- Work with software partners to evaluate and recommend data governance and data management solutions.