Data Governance Developer

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.