Data Governance Implementation Lead

About the role

Metyis is seeking a Data Governance Implementation Lead to join their Data and Analytics team in Amsterdam. The role involves helping clients transition data governance from conceptual frameworks into practical, daily business operations. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to identify pain points, define data ownership, and create reusable governance templates and playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Identify priority stakeholders, business pain points and governance gaps together with business and IT teams.
• Define clear ownership, including Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Custodians and decision forums, and support stakeholders in adopting these responsibilities.
• Facilitate workshops to align business and technical stakeholders on ownership, definitions and decision-making.
• Translate broad and ambiguous data governance challenges into clear and actionable implementation approaches.
• Support the implementation and embedding of governance into clients’ day-to-day ways of working.
• Turn successful approaches into reusable templates, playbooks and accelerators that can be applied across projects and clients.
• Collaborate with Metyis specialists across data, analytics, architecture and privacy for detailed technical implementation.

Required skills

• Data Governance
• Data Management
• Data Quality
• Business Analysis
• Stakeholder Management

Nice to have

• DAMA-DMBOK
• CDMP
• Collibra
• Informatica
• Alation
• Microsoft Purview
• SQL
• BI
• GDPR

Qualifications

• Experience initiating a data or governance effort from scratch
• Experience in a consulting, international, or multi-entity organization

About the Company

Metyis is a forward-thinking, global company that collaborates with business partners and clients to create and implement the capacities and capabilities required to improve future performance. They operate across a wide range of industries with an embedded partnership model focused on driving sustainable growth.