Lead Data Governance Architect

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The Lead Data Governance Architect is responsible for defining and driving the enterprise Data Governance architecture and strategy. This role partners with business, technology, and functional leaders to deliver enterprise-scale standards, policies, processes, and operating models for effective data management across Danaher.  

This position reports to the Senior Director, Data Engineering and is part of the Enterprise Data Platform organization.

This is a Danaher Corporate role, hosted by our Cytiva operating company in Kraków, and will be an on-site role (Kraków) or remote (Poland).

In this role, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Design governance capabilities covering Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Cataloguing, Data Lineage, Master Data Management, Data Classification, and Data Privacy. 

• Define and maintain data ownership, stewardship, accountability, and decision-making models across the organization. 

• Develop and maintain the target-state Data Governance and Data Management architecture, ensuring alignment with Enterprise Architecture. 

• Define standards for data domains, critical data elements, business glossaries, data models, data products, and data flows. 

• Ensure that Data Governance requirements are embedded into data platforms, applications, analytics solutions, and transformation initiatives. 

The essential requirements of the job include:

• 7+ years of experience in Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Governance, or a related field.

• Strong understanding of Data Architecture and Data Management principles. 

• Experience defining Data Governance policies, standards, controls, and procedures. 

• Experience with one or more major cloud ecosystems, such as Azure, AWS, or Snowflake. 

• Hands-on knowledge of: Data Governance, Data Lineage, Data Privacy and Data Security, Data Ownership and Stewardship. 

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 15% domestically and internationally as required.  

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in: 

• Knowledge of relevant regulatory and compliance frameworks, depending on industry, such as GDPR or SOX. 

• Experience with Data Governance / Metadata platforms such as Collibra, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Alation, Atlan. 

• Life sciences, diagnostics, biotechnology, healthcare, or regulated industries. 

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