{"id":4163246,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director","title":"Data Governance Platforms & Workflow Product Associate Director","company":{"id":2859,"name":"EY","domain":"ey.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ey-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Raleigh, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":180000,"max":324000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":324000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Alation","optional":false},{"name":"Collibra","optional":false},{"name":"Informatica","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"ServiceNow","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T12:49:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T20:16:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.\nWe’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.\nPosition Summary:\nThe Governance Platforms & Workflow Product SME is an Associate Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office, combining data governance expertise, technology product management and hands-on implementation. The role turns approved governance standards, decision rights and control requirements into practical platform configurations, integrations and stewardship workflows. It leads functional product direction for assigned governance capabilities, translating business and user needs into requirements, roadmaps, prioritised backlogs and measurable acceptance criteria in partnership with designated Technology Product Owners and platform teams. It delivers scoped configurations and integrations and coordinates design, testing, approved release, adoption and operational handover within approved architecture, security and delivery parameters. Working with business, data and technology stakeholders across a global, federated organisation, the role simplifies stewardship and measures business value, adoption and control effectiveness. Functional product leadership does not confer formal Technology Product Owner accountability or change the accountabilities of Data Owners, designated control owners or platform teams.\nEssential Functions of the Job:\nLead functional product vision, roadmap and prioritised backlog development for assigned governance platforms and workflows, in partnership with designated Technology Product Owners. Conduct discovery with business users, Service Lines, Service Line Quality, Data Owners, Data Stewards and control teams; translate needs into business, functional and non-functional requirements and coordinate dependencies with product and platform owners.\nApply business governance expertise to modern data platforms and AI environments; evaluate governance platform capabilities and deliver proofs of concept and scoped implementations for catalogues, stewardship workflows and technology-enabled controls within authorised environments.\nTranslate approved standards and decision rights into technical specifications, user stories, metadata schemas, machine-readable rules and measurable acceptance criteria; configure and validate roles, permissions, forms, rules, workflows and notifications within approved patterns.\nDesign, configure and validate practical journeys for Data Owners and Data Stewards, including onboarding, issue management, attestations, certification, approvals and evidence capture, with accountable decisions, exceptions and escalation pathways.\nPrioritise requirements by business value, control outcomes, user experience, delivery effort and adoption needs. Facilitate decisions, negotiate priorities and resolve dependencies across business and technology teams; make trade-offs visible and escalate unresolved conflicts or decisions outside delegated authority.\nPartner with Technology Product Owners on solution design, release decisions and the sequencing of platform improvements; deliver assigned configurations and supported API, connector or scripting-based integrations, connecting trusted metadata with governance workflows, approvals and downstream controls.\nDevelop prototypes to validate user journeys and implementation options; embed governance checkpoints and measurable acceptance criteria into design, build and release. Execute configuration and integration testing, coordinate business testing and user acceptance, resolve assigned defects and prepare release, rollback and support documentation for deployment by authorised teams and subsequent adoption.\nAgree and monitor measures of business value, usability, workflow completion, adoption, service performance and control effectiveness with relevant stakeholders and designated control owners. Use feedback and implementation evidence to improve the roadmap, workflows and user experience.\nMaintain traceability from approved source requirements through backlog, configuration or integration, testing, release and control evidence; document solutions and transition scoped capabilities to designated support owners.\nAnalytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:\nExercises the judgement expected of an Associate Director when setting functional product direction and balancing governance outcomes, user needs, delivery effort and platform constraints.\nTurns complex or ambiguous requirements into clear product choices, prioritised backlog items and testable acceptance criteria.\nEvaluates options using evidence from users, process performance, control outcomes, dependencies, delivery capacity and adoption measures.\nAssesses implementation options, platform constraints, integration dependencies, maintainability and control effectiveness. Selects configuration and automation approaches within approved patterns and delegated authority; recommends process changes, future platform investment or interim controls and evidence arrangements for approval by the relevant accountable owners where capability gaps remain.\nTakes responsibility for the design, configuration, integration, testing and implementation evidence of assigned governance platform and workflow capabilities within delegated authority. Presents options, impacts and recommendations and escalates decisions requiring policy owner, Data Owner, designated control owner, risk, enterprise architecture, security, investment or technology approval.\nKnowledge and Skills Requirements:\nStrong technology product management capability across business and user discovery, business, functional and non-functional requirements, roadmaps, prioritised backlogs, user stories and measurable acceptance criteria. Ability to apply these practices through practical implementation, agile delivery, release planning, adoption, operational handover and measurement of business value and control effectiveness.\nPractical expertise in ownership, stewardship, decision rights and metadata, with working knowledge of classification, quality, lineage, access, permitted use and lifecycle controls sufficient to implement approved requirements. Hands-on skills in governance platform configuration, metadata modelling, stewardship workflows, certification rules and workflow automation; ability to assess capability fit and connect trusted metadata with approvals, monitoring and control evidence.\nAbility to translate approved governance standards and decision rights into technical specifications, user stories, metadata schemas, machine-readable rules, configured roles, permissions, forms and workflows, and measurable acceptance criteria, maintaining traceability from source requirements to implementation and control evidence.\nPractical technical knowledge of metadata models, audit trails, dashboards, cloud data platforms, APIs, connectors, integrations and notifications; ability to use SQL and an appropriate scripting language, such as Python, to validate metadata, workflow rules and supported integrations.\nStrong product judgement and the ability to balance value, control outcomes, usability, effort and platform constraints.\nAbility to engage business, Service Line Quality, governance, risk, data and technology stakeholders; explain technical concepts in practical business language and translate business needs into implementable solutions. Builds agreement on delivery, adoption and outcomes and influences stakeholders outside the reporting line in a global, federated organisation.\nStructured problem solving, workshop facilitation, evidence-based decision making and practical change leadership, including negotiating priorities, resolving dependencies and explaining delivery trade-offs.\nWorking knowledge of version control, environment separation, configuration and integration testing, defect management, approved deployment and rollback, least-privilege access and secure handling of credentials. Strong focus on adoption, service performance and continuous improvement; ability to document solutions and transition scoped capabilities to designated support owners.\nApplied knowledge of relevant data governance, stewardship and metadata practices, informed by recognised references such as DAMA-DMBOK and EDM Council DCAM, and familiarity with CDMC automated control concepts for sensitive data in cloud environments. These references guide practical implementation rather than imply formal compliance or certification. Familiarity with relevant principles from ISO/IEC 38505, ISO 8000, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST guidance and ISO 15489 is advantageous where applicable to assigned capabilities.\nSupervision Responsibilities:\nOperates with a high degree of independence within approved governance, product and delivery parameters, with direction on major priorities and material accountability decisions.\nHas no direct reports and no indirect supervisory accountability.\nProvides functional product leadership and coordinates work across governance, business and technology teams; people management accountability remains with the relevant team leaders.\nOther Requirements:\nWorks globally across the Global Data Stewardship Office and partners with the Global Data Office, Client Technology, Enterprise Technology, Information Security, Global Data Protection, General Counsel’s Office, relevant Risk and Business Administration teams, Service Lines, Service Line Quality, Regions and EY member firms.\nEngages Service Lines, Service Line Quality and the wider data ecosystem, including the Global Data Office (GDO), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Regional Data Stewards, alongside Technology Product Owners, architects, platform and engineering teams, Data Owners, Data Stewards, designated control owners and programme teams. Builds agreement on implementation scope, requirements, priorities, approved releases, adoption plans and operational handover. Aligns platform and workflow capabilities to DSO strategy, the Global Data Stewardship Policy and priorities approved through relevant EY governance forums.\nLeads functional requirements and delivers assigned configurations, integrations and validation within approved access, architecture, security and change controls. Data Owners, Data Stewards and policy and designated control owners retain their respective accountabilities; Technology Product Owners, product teams and platform owners retain their product and platform accountabilities. Policy ownership, enterprise architecture authority, security approval, infrastructure engineering, production change authority and production operations remain with designated accountable functions. The role coordinates specialist support and handover and does not replace Legal, Privacy, Information Security, Records Management or Internal Audit responsibilities.\nLocation, employment terms, flexibility and travel requirements are subject to business and local policy requirements.\nJob Requirements:\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent tertiary qualification in information systems, computer science, software or data engineering, data science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent substantial professional experience in technology implementation. Relevant data governance, information management and product management knowledge is essential; candidates from business, product management or information management disciplines must demonstrate equivalent technical foundations and practical implementation capability.\nExperience:\n7 or more years of relevant experience, including substantial leadership in functional product management, platforms, workflows or business analysis within data governance or data management.\nDemonstrated experience applying technology product management practices to deliver governance platform and workflow capabilities from user disc...","description_format":"text","description_chars":18002,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible vacation policy"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Audit & Assurance Firms","Financial Advisory, Valuation & Restructuring","Management Consulting","Tax Advisory & Preparation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-12T12:49:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":25,"reasons":["conf:6","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-13T02:33:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":324000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-13T02:33:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5403,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2859},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2859"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fey-data-governance-platforms-workflow-product-associate-director"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4163246}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ey.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4163246},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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