Data Governance Manager

Data Governance Manager

Suffolk is scaling its Data and AI team to deliver real-time, predictive insights across all phases of the build lifecycle. To enable the vision, we are seeking a hands-on Data Governance Manager who can stand up and run the frameworks, tooling, and rituals that keep our data discoverable, trusted, secure, and compliant, while freeing our data engineering team to move fast. You will be the go-to owner for catalog, lineage, quality, security & privacy controls, and master data stewardship, ensuring every data product meets Suffolk's strategic targets for reliability, availability, and semantic interoperability.

Responsibilities

Expand and maintain enterprise data catalog, lineage & semantic layer

• Deploy and maintain data catalog across Databricks, lead further deployment of the semantic layer
• Curate business and technical metadata across all departments, facilitate the development of metadata that enhances Large Language Model (LLM) comprehension and accuracy when interfacing with Suffolk's data warehouse and semantic layer, enabling AI-driven use cases such as natural language querying and summarization
• Lead scaling of the Master data (Project, Vendor, Budget, People etc.) and golden record rules

Implement automated data-quality & reliability controls

Operationalize security & privacy by design for analytical data stack

Build model & AI governance framework

Drive adoption & data literacy

Qualifications

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and / or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.

EEO Statement

Suffolk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Suffolk will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination toward, or harassment of, applicants or employees by anyone at Suffolk, or anyone working on behalf of Suffolk.