Job Title
Data Governance Lead
Job Description Summary
The Data Governance Lead will establish and operate practical governance across the DNA Data and Analytics portfolio. The role ensures that priority data and analytics products have clear ownership, agreed-upon definitions, measurable quality, traceable lineage, appropriate controls, and evidence of fitness for purpose. Working with business owners, data stewards, technology teams, analytics teams, risk functions, and supply partners, the Data Governance Lead will translate enterprise requirements into proportionate practices that support trusted decision-making, regulatory compliance, and AI readiness.

Business and process owners remain accountable for source data accuracy and remediation, while the Data and Analytics team provides the governance framework, semantic context, quality evidence, and trusted data consumption layer.
Job Description
Key accountabilities
1. Governance strategy, operating model, ownership, and stewardship
Define and operate the DNA governance roadmap, standards, decision rights,



and proportionate controls, aligned with enterprise policy and data risk.
Establish transparent governance roles, decision rights, and escalation paths across Data Owners, Data Stewards, Product Owners, technology teams, analytics teams, and supply partners.
Ensure governance is proportionate to business value, data criticality, regulatory exposure, and delivery risk.
Maintain a prioritised governance plan with clear milestones, dependencies, decision points, and measures of adoption. Review the plan regularly with DNA leadership and adjust it as business priorities, regulatory expectations, architecture, delivery capacity, and data risks change.
Establish clear Data Owner and Data Steward coverage for priority domains, including responsibilities, approval rights, escalation paths, coaching, and resolution of ownership gaps.
Enable owners and stewards to fulfil their responsibilities through practical playbooks, rol

📌 Data Governance Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cushman & Wakefield
📍 Bengaluru