Job Title: Data Governance Specialist

Job Title: Data Governance Specialist

GCL : D2

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to turn complex, fast-moving data into trusted, governed assets that power automation and AI at scale for real impact on patients? This role places you at the heart of how we build reliable data foundations, accelerate decision-making, and drive efficiency across our manufacturing and supply network.
As the Data Governance Specialist, you will shape the standards, guardrails, and practices that make advanced analytics and AI solutions secure, transparent, and effective. You will work side by side with data quality experts and business leaders to translate priorities into governed data elements ensuring AI capabilities which will facilitate delivery of measurable business outcomes. Could you turn ambiguity into repeatable, high-quality data and services that reduce cycle time, increase right-first-time performance, and unlock new insights?

Accountabilities:
- Governance Product Roadmap:



Deliver and maintain a prioritized roadmap that aligns governance policies, data standards, and automation/AI use cases with business objectives and technical feasibility.
- Data and Integration Specifications: Work directly with APIs, data models, and integrations to define specifications that ensure accuracy, interoperability, and traceability.
- Agile Ways of Working: Lead planning, refinement, reviews, and demos; ensure estimates are realistic and outcomes are measurable.
- Release Stewardship: Own go/no-go decisions, coordinate deployments, and validate releases against functional and non-functional requirements, including performance and security.
- Blocker Removal: Identify and escalate risks associated with technical and organizational impediments that slow delivery or compromise governance.
- For quality, compliance, and ethics, define and enforce non-functional requirements. Align with security policies, privacy regulations, and responsible AI principle

📌 Global Data Governance Specialist (Chennai)
🏢 AstraZeneca
📍 Chennai