- Company Name
- Cox Automotive
- Job Title
- Data Governance Senior Manager
- Job Description
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Job title: Data Governance Senior Manager – APIs & Data Sets
Role Summary:
Lead enterprise‑wide governance for APIs and critical data sets, ensuring security, compliance, discoverability, and alignment with data strategy. Drive cross‑functional initiatives, embed governance into product and engineering workflows, and champion adoption through training and metrics.
Expectations:
- Manage a portfolio of governance programs for APIs and data sets.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, security, legal, and privacy teams to balance regulatory, risk, and business needs.
- Deliver measurable outcomes via scorecards, metrics, and continuous improvement.
- Influence stakeholders, build consensus, and sustain long‑term governance culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain policies, standards, and procedures for API and data set governance.
- Define lifecycle governance covering design, development, deployment, versioning, deprecation, and retirement.
- Establish design standards, naming conventions, authentication/authorization models, and data quality requirements.
- Create governance scorecards, metrics, and dashboards to track effectiveness.
- Ensure comprehensive metadata documentation (purpose, ownership, dependencies, usage restrictions, lineage).
- Implement classification and tagging frameworks based on sensitivity, criticality, and compliance.
- Catalog critical source data and APIs with full metadata context.
- Partner with Legal, Privacy and Security to enforce data contracts, privacy regulations, and security requirements.
- Roll out data quality policies for critical data sets.
- Integrate governance into development workflows with product and engineering teams.
- Drive adoption via training, communication, and change‑management initiatives.
- Provide consulting to data owners on governance requirements.
- Continuously improve governance processes based on feedback and evolving needs.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years in data governance or related field; 3+ years in leadership/management.
- Deep knowledge of API technologies (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), architectural patterns, and API management platforms.
- Proficiency in data management principles: data quality, metadata, lineage, data cataloging, modeling, and integration patterns.
- Understanding of API security standards, data protection mechanisms, and privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA).
- Strong analytical and strategic decision‑making under ambiguity.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder influencing, and consensus‑building.
- Proven project management delivering complex, cross‑functional initiatives.
- Demonstrated change‑management, training delivery, and adoption expertise.
- Ability to balance technical, business, and risk considerations.
Required Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Advanced degrees (master’s, Ph.D.) or certifications (e.g., DAMA‑DMBOK, PMP, data governance certifications) are preferred but not mandatory.
College park, United states
On site
Senior
16-01-2026