
Manager - Data Governance Analytics
- United Arab Emirates
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Define and implement data governance frameworks, standards, and best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity, consistency, and accessibility across platforms.
- Maintain and enforce data cataloging and metadata management processes.
- Partner with business and tech teams to streamline and standardize data pipelines.
- Ensure data consumers have access to the right datasets with minimal friction.
- Work closely with the analytics and engineering teams to map, tag, and prioritize data assets that drive business outcomes.
- Act as the key point of contact between business teams, product owners, and data engineering.
- Drive awareness and adoption of governed data practices across departments.
- Organize enablement sessions, workshops, and documentation for stakeholders.
- Establish controls and checks to proactively catch data issues before they impact decision-making.
- Enable repeatable processes for onboarding new data sources and use cases.
- Monitor and report on data quality KPIs and resolution timelines.
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, or a fast-paced consumer business.
- Exposure to analytics tooling (Power BI, Tableau, Looker).
- Background in data product ownership or analytics program management
- 6-10 years of experience in data governance, data enablement, or analytics operations.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, lineage, and metadata tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan).
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and managing data assets across departments.
- Familiarity with SQL, data lakes, data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical needs into clear business processes.