{"id":4163254,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ey-data-governance-strategy-transformation-director","title":"Data Governance Strategy & Transformation 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":["Jacksonville, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":240000,"max":432000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":432000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Alation","optional":false},{"name":"Collibra","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"Informatica","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric","optional":false},{"name":"Python","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":"2026-11-15T02:25:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"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 Capability Strategy & Modernisation Lead is a Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office, combining enterprise data-governance strategy and portfolio leadership with practical technology implementation capability. The role defines EY’s governance capability strategy, target state and modernisation roadmap, translating business and user needs and approved policy, risk and regulatory requirements into operating-model designs, implementation-ready requirements and reusable governance patterns. Working with business, risk, data and technology stakeholders, the role assesses maturity, recommends investment priorities and leads the capability-modernisation portfolio through delivery, adoption and benefits realisation. It guides reusable capabilities for modern data platforms, cloud ecosystems, analytics and AI-enabled solutions, informed by relevant regulatory, industry and technology developments. Product management practices underpin discovery, roadmap and backlog prioritisation, design, testing, approved release and operational handover, with measurable business value, adoption and control effectiveness. The role leads specialist teams in translating requirements into working metadata models, machine-readable rules, workflows and integrations, and undertakes selected proofs of concept and scoped implementations within approved delivery parameters. It works in partnership with accountable data, product, platform and control owners, rather than replacing their decision rights or operational responsibilities.\nEssential Functions of the Job:\nDefine and maintain the enterprise data-governance capability strategy, target state, design principles and multi-year modernisation roadmap, aligned with EY business priorities, approved policy and risk requirements.\nAssess current governance maturity and capability gaps across people, process, information, controls and technology, and translate findings into prioritised investment and implementation recommendations.\nDesign the target governance operating model, including accountabilities, decision rights, governance forums, service interactions and adoption measures, without displacing the responsibilities of policy, data or technology owners.\nTranslate business and user needs and approved policy, regulatory and risk requirements into implementation-ready business, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories and measurable acceptance criteria. Define reusable control patterns, metadata models, machine-readable governance rules, workflow specifications and design guardrails, maintaining traceability from source requirements to implementation, test results and control evidence.\nLead capability design across interdependent governance domains, including metadata, discovery and classification, lineage, data quality, lifecycle, privacy, access, data products and AI-ready data.\nLead the governance capability-modernisation portfolio, shaping business cases, investment recommendations, sequencing, delivery outcomes and transition plans. Use business and user discovery to develop capability roadmaps and prioritised backlogs with product and platform owners, negotiating priorities, dependencies and trade-offs. Guide design and delivery, assure configuration, integration, testing and acceptance evidence, and coordinate approved release, adoption and operational handover with designated owners.\nSet team-level implementation practices and assurance checkpoints consistent with approved architecture, security and change standards. Cover version control, environment separation, configuration and integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect resolution, release and rollback documentation, secure access and credential handling, auditable evidence and transition to designated support owners. Assess release readiness and submit evidence through the relevant approval processes.\nDefine and oversee the change, communications, stakeholder-readiness, learning and adoption approach required to embed new governance accountabilities, processes, controls and ways of working.\nEstablish and monitor measures for maturity improvement, adoption, user outcomes, control effectiveness, operational performance and realised business value, using evidence to direct continuous improvement.\nIdentify and manage strategic delivery risks, sequencing constraints, cross-capability dependencies and barriers to adoption, escalating material issues and recommending corrective action.\nMonitor emerging regulation, industry practice and technology developments affecting data and AI governance, and assess implications for EY’s target capability and roadmap.\nDefine capability-evaluation criteria and contribute to platform, partner and sourcing decisions, ensuring options are assessed against governance outcomes, integration, scalability, control, adoption and total-value considerations. Lead and, where required, undertake selected proofs of concept and scoped implementations to validate metadata models, governance workflows, lineage, quality rules and supported API, connector or scripting-based integrations within authorised environments.\nEngage Service Lines, Service Line Quality and the data ecosystem, including the Global Data Office (GDO), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Regional Data Stewards. Explain technical concepts in practical business language, facilitate decisions, negotiate priorities and resolve dependencies. Build agreement on delivery, adoption and outcomes across the global, federated organisation, influencing stakeholders outside the reporting line and escalating unresolved issues.\nProvide thought leadership on modern governance practices and develop the specialist capability required to sustain the target state.\nAnalytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:\nExercises Director-level judgement on complex capability and portfolio choices spanning governance, risk, operating model, investment, adoption and technology enablement.\nUses approved policy, regulatory obligations, risk priorities, maturity evidence, architecture principles, benefits evidence and recognised governance frameworks to determine capability priorities, recommend target-state designs and sequence modernisation investments.\nEvaluates value, feasibility, supplier and platform options, change impact, delivery risk, control effectiveness and adoption trade-offs, including integration dependencies, maintainability and implementation constraints. Selects configuration and automation approaches within approved patterns, recommends interim controls and evidence requirements to designated control owners where capability gaps remain, establishes success measures and acceptance criteria, and directs corrective action within delegated authority.\nEscalates decisions that require policy-owner, Data Owner, risk, investment, sourcing, enterprise architecture, security or platform approval, including production deployment decisions outside delegated authority.\nDelivers governance capability designs, implementation assurance and assigned scoped configuration, integration, testing and evidence within delegated authority. Coordinates delivery with accountable owners and recommends decisions outside that authority; formal Product Owner accountability remains with designated product owners.\nFor example, where a governance requirement must work consistently across cloud, analytics and AI environments, defines the common business requirement and reusable governance pattern, assesses implementation options, aligns accountable stakeholders and recommends the roadmap, adoption approach and evidence required to demonstrate value and effective operation. Leads validation through a scoped proof of concept, configuration or integration, confirms traceability and acceptance evidence, and coordinates approved release and operational handover with designated owners.\nKnowledge and Skills Requirements:\nDeep expertise in enterprise data governance and the design of governance capabilities, operating models, decision rights, policies, standards, controls and adoption mechanisms.\nDemonstrated ability to assess maturity, define target states and translate strategy, policy and risk intent into prioritised roadmaps, business requirements, control patterns and measurable outcomes.\nBroad knowledge of metadata, discovery and classification, lineage, data quality, lifecycle, privacy, access governance, governance workflows, data-product governance and responsible use of data for analytics and AI.\nPractical delivery capability in governance platform configuration, metadata modelling and relevant rules or workflow automation, supported by cloud data platform, API and integration knowledge. Ability to evaluate capability fit, challenge designs and undertake selected scoped implementations, using SQL and an appropriate scripting language, such as Python, to validate metadata, rules and supported integrations. Depth in relevant implementation areas and the ability to lead specialists across others are required; expertise in every platform or discipline is not expected.\nStrong product management skills in business and user discovery, roadmap development, backlog prioritisation, user stories, agile delivery, release planning, adoption and value measurement. Ability to translate needs into business, functional and non-functional requirements and technical specifications, including metadata schemas, machine-readable rules, workflow specifications and measurable acceptance criteria, while managing priorities, dependencies and trade-offs with product and platform owners.\nWorking knowledge of version control, environment separation, configuration and integration testing, defect management, approved deployment and rollback, least-privilege access and secure credential handling; ability to establish implementation assurance standards, review solution documentation and guide operational handover to designated support owners.\nStrong strategic thinking, commercial acumen, structured problem solving and portfolio leadership, including the ability to develop business cases, prioritise investment and manage value, risk, dependencies and performance across multiple initiatives.\nProven change and adoption leadership, including stakeholder analysis, communications, readiness, learning, behavioural change, capability uplift and reinforcement of new accountabilities and ways of working.\nAbility to define outcome measures and use maturity, adoption, control-effectiveness, user and benefits data to evaluate progress and direct continuous improvement.\nAbility to interpret emerging regulatory, industry and technology developments and translate them into practical implications for governance strategy and capability design.\nStrong executive communication, facilitation and negotiation skills: explain technical concepts in practical business language, translate business needs into implementable solutions and build agreement with business, Service Line Quality, data and technology stakeholders. Ability to influence without reporting-line authority, resolve dependencies and agree delivery, adoption and outcomes in a global, federated organisation.\nInclusive leadership that develops others, creates clarity and accountability, and supports effective collaboration across organisational boundaries.\nAbility to apply recognised frameworks proportionately: DAMA-DMBOK for data-management disciplines and governance responsibilities; EDM Council DCAM for capability assessment, strategy and measurable maturity improvement; and CDMC for cloud data-management capabilities and controls. 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