Senior Data Governance Program Lead - Associate Manager at Sia

About the Role

We are seeking a senior data governance program lead to operationalize a new enterprise data governance program. This role will act as a proxy for the enterprise data governance sponsor and drive onboarding across departments.

Key Responsibilities

• →Act as the program sponsor proxy to drive execution, decision-making, and follow-through across four departments.
• →Operationalize the enterprise data governance operating model, including forums, cadences, roles, and decision workflows.
• →Lead onboarding across departments, ensuring teams adopt governance processes, templates, and standards consistently.
• →Drive alignment and VP sign-offs on critical data objects, metrics, and definitions.
• →Build and maintain program-level plans, milestones, and dashboards to track adoption, progress, issues, risks, and executive decisions.
• →Run cross-functional working sessions and executive readouts, managing risks and escalations proactively.
• →Establish program goals, success metrics, and reporting mechanisms to measure adoption, data quality, consistency of definitions, and business impact.
• →Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams to prioritize and deliver enabling capabilities.
• →Align intake, triage, SLA tracking, and post-launch measurement to organizational standards.
• →Manage competing priorities and simultaneous workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• →Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation of governance workflows and reporting.
• →Mentor junior consultants in delivery best practices and structured program execution.