Data Governance Specialist

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Policy and ownership

• Define governance policies, data classifications, ownership and stewardship models, access rules, retention schedules and quality standards.
• Maintain the ownership registry naming a business owner and a technical owner for every priority data product, metric, model and AI application.
• Drive resolution of unowned or disputed data assets.

Platform governance

• Administer and monitor Unity Catalog controls, lineage, metadata, tagging and policy enforcement.
• Operate access review cycles and report exceptions.
• Maintain the certified data-product register and its evidence.

Risk, privacy and compliance

• Coordinate privacy, security, legal, compliance, audit and cross-border data requirements.
• Establish governance requirements for models, AI applications, prompts, evaluation data and sensitive outputs.
• Support internal and external audit requests with evidence.

Quality and stewardship

• Define data-quality rules and service levels with business stewards and monitor conformance.
• Run the stewardship workflow — issue intake, triage, remediation and closure.
• Report governance posture and unresolved issues to the BIDA Business Partner Head and the Head of BIDA.

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise data governance framework and policy set.
• Ownership registry, access matrix and classification standards.
• Data-quality rules, service levels and conformance reporting.
• Stewardship workflow and issue register.
• Audit evidence packs and governance posture reporting.

Accountability and Success Measures

• Completeness of ownership and metadata coverage for priority assets.
• Access discipline and the absence of unreviewed standing access.
• Compliance with privacy, retention and cross-border requirements.
• Timely resolution of governance and quality issues.
• Readiness to evidence controls on demand.

Working Relationships

• Internal: Data Engineers; BI & AI Context Engineers; AI / LLM Engineers; Data & AI Translators; business data owners and stewards; Legal; Compliance; Cybersecurity; Internal Audit; HR for people data.
• External: auditors and regulators, as directed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Information Technology, Law, Business, Accountancy or a related field.
• Three or more years in data governance, data management, information security, compliance or audit. Experience operating a data catalogue and access-control regime is preferred.
• Certifications preferred: CDMP, DAMA, or equivalent data-management certification. Optional: CIPP, CISA, ISO 27001 lead implementer.
• Technical Skills:

- Data governance frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK.

-Unity Catalog or an equivalent catalogue, including lineage, tagging and policy enforcement.

-SQL for profiling and control testing.

-Data-quality rule design and measurement.

-Privacy regulation applicable to the Philippines and to cross-border operations.

-Access management, classification and retention practice.

-AI governance concepts — model documentation, evaluation evidence, output controls.

Behavioural Competencies

• Persistence in pursuing ownership and closure.
• Comfort holding senior stakeholders to a standard.
• Precision and documentation discipline.
• Pragmatism — governance that enables use rather than blocking it.
• Confidentiality and sound judgement.