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Team Overview: Data Solutions builds trusted, reusable data products and analytics that power Network and Data offerings. We partner with the Chief Data Office to ensure governed, compliant, discoverable data foundations that scale insight and AI.

The Lead Data Governance Specialist defines and drives data governance for the Network Data Solutions domain and acts as the Data Steward for the domain. This role partners with Product and Engineering to operationalize data quality, metadata, and compliance,



and serves as the domain liaison to the Chief Data Office in a hub-and-spoke model.
Primary Responsibilities:
Governance operating model: Define standards, routines, and adoption plans aligned to enterprise governance
Chief Data Office liaison: Represent domain needs and drive alignment in a hub-and-spoke model
Metadata and documentation: Maintain definitions, classifications, and lineage so data is discoverable and usable
Data quality and stewardship: Define measures, enable monitoring, and partner on remediation and prevention
Embed governance in delivery: Create repeatable patterns integrated into product and engineering workflows
Compliance and risk: Partner with privacy/security to implement controls and support audits/assessments along with Data Use Rights
Enablement and reporting: Train teams, influence adoption, and report progress via explicit KPIs
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📌 Lead Data Governance Specialist Pune
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