Location: Chennai / Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: 7–12 years
Reporting To: Head of Data / Senior Management
1. Role Overview
Compunet Connections is looking for an experienced Data Governance Manager to establish and operationalise data governance frameworks for the organisation and its customers. The role will work closely with business leaders, data teams, application development teams, information security, compliance stakeholders and customer representatives.
The successful candidate will ensure that enterprise data is properly owned, defined, protected, measured and used responsibly. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring the ability to convert governance policies into practical processes, controls and measurable business outcomes.
2. Key Responsibilities
1. Develop and implement the data governance framework
Design and maintain an enterprise-wide data governance framework covering data ownership, stewardship, classification, quality, privacy, access and lifecycle management.
Define governance policies, standards, operating procedures,



decision rights and escalation mechanisms.
Establish a practical governance operating model that can be adopted by both technical and business teams.
2. Establish data ownership and stewardship
Identify critical data domains and assign accountable Data Owners and Data Stewards.
Define explicit responsibilities, approval workflows and governance forums.
Conduct regular governance council meetings and track decisions, risks and action items to closure.
3. Improve enterprise data quality
Define data quality dimensions, rules, thresholds and scorecards for critical data elements.
Work with business and technology teams to identify root causes of data quality issues.
Establish issue-management processes covering identification, ownership, remediation, validation and closure.
Publish periodic data quality dashboards and improvement reports.
4. Build and maintain business metadata
Develop and govern the enterprise bus

📌 Data Governance Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Compunet Connections
📍 Chennai