Growth Acceleration Partners is hiring a Senior Data Governance Lead to support a leading private equity firm. In this highly hands-on role, you will help build and mature the data governance function from an early stage, designing ownership models, rule sets, and scalable processes. You will work directly with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced New York finance environment.
What You'll Do
- Support and help shape the execution of data management and governance initiatives across multiple business functions and projects.
- Work directly with business stakeholders to understand current data landscapes, challenges, and needs.
- Capture stakeholder meeting outcomes and translate them into clear action plans and governance deliverables.
- Identify and prioritize high-impact, low-complexity opportunities to deliver immediate value.
- Contribute to the enrichment and maintenance of the enterprise data catalog (definitions, ownership, metadata).
- Assist with defining, implementing, and monitoring data quality rules in collaboration with Data Quality and Engineering teams.
- Support data lineage and metadata documentation efforts.
- Help coordinate data governance activities across domains, ensuring follow-through and execution.
- Document governance processes, decisions, definitions, and artifacts clearly and consistently.
- Participate in business-facing sessions and working meetings, serving as a bridge between business and data teams.
- Support regulatory and audit-related data governance requirements through proper documentation and controls.
What We're Looking For
- Strong understanding of data governance concepts, data ownership, stewardship, and metadata.
- Hands-on experience with data catalogs and lineage tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Azure Purview).
- Solid SQL skills to support data investigation, validation, and profiling.
- Familiarity with data quality concepts and collaboration with DQ teams.
- Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
- Experience using Jira, ServiceNow, or similar tools to track governance tasks and issues.
- Comfortable operating in complex, sometimes ambiguous environments with multiple senior stakeholders and shifting priorities.
- Direct, clear communicator who can hold their own with New York finance stakeholders, while remaining low-ego and collaborative.
- Comfortable interacting directly with senior business stakeholders and facilitating working sessions in a direct, fast-paced New York finance culture.
- Highly organized, able to manage multiple parallel tasks and follow through on deliverables.
- Practical, execution-oriented mindset and the ability to bring structure and momentum in environments with many stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Basic scripting (Python) for supporting data checks or automation.
Technical Stack
- SQL, Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Azure Purview, Jira, ServiceNow
- AWS, Azure, GCP, Python
Work Mode
This role is remote (US-based) but requires the ability to work effectively with stakeholders in the New York / New Jersey area.
