Description
Mastercard's Enterprise Data Governance team is seeking a Manager, AI & Data Governance to enable data governance across the enterprise through a federated stewardship model.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience running data stewardship processes, turning complex data logic into clear, documented decisions, and influencing stakeholders at all levels to adopt them.
Responsibilities:
- Triage and research issues submitted to Data Stewardship and drive them to a documented decision.
- Analyze root causes across source systems, data warehouse logic, and downstream reports.
- Support stewardship teams by writing and maintaining business glossary terms, critical data elements, classification and transformation logic in the data catalog (Atlan).
- Keep an accurate, audit-ready intake tracker, with status, dates, decisions and rationale for each item.
- Prepare agendas, pre-reads and supporting analysis for stewardship meetings.
- Support the operationalization of Mastercard's federated data stewardship model by building and maintaining playbooks, templates, procedures and job aids.
- Drive awareness and adoption of data and AI management practices through steward onboarding, training, communications, and forums.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required; degree in Data Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field is a plus.
- 6+ years of experience in data analysis, data governance, data management, data quality or a related field.
- Strong SQL and Excel skills and comfortable tracing data lineage across systems.
- CEFR English proficiency: C1 (Advanced) or equivalent.
- Ability to facilitate meetings, engage with business stakeholders, write clear documentation, and communicate complex data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.