Data Governance Expert
Employer · MET Group
Database administrator
Systems analyst
Business analystFull-timeBudapest
MET Group is an integrated European energy company, headquartered in Switzerland, with activities in natural gas and power. We are looking for a Data Governance Expert to act as a key representative and subject matter expert of the Data Management team, helping business and implementation stakeholders understand the purpose, benefits, and practical value of structured Data Governance.
Tasks
- Act as a visible and trusted representative of the Data Management team, explaining the purpose, benefits, and practical value of Data Governance to business and implementation stakeholders.
- Operate and continuously improve the Data Governance framework, including policies, standards, guidelines, roles, responsibilities, processes, and interaction models.
- Ensure governance practices are applied consistently and embedded into day-to-day business operations and project delivery.
- Design, maintain, and improve practical governance processes for data ownership, stewardship, business definitions, data quality, data domains, reference data, metadata, and governance issues.
- Coordinate the Data Excellence Network by supporting Data Domain Owners, Data Definition Owners, Data Stewards, and Data Maintenance Owners, while clarifying responsibilities and enabling collaboration across functions.
- Identify, engage, and onboard the right governance role owners across the company, ensuring they understand their responsibilities and actively participate in governance activities.
- Facilitate governance forums, workshops, and reviews by preparing materials, tracking decisions, following up actions, and escalating unresolved issues where needed.
- Manage the process for maintaining Data Domains and Data Subdomains, including structure changes, ownership assignments, and resolution of ownership ambiguities with stakeholders.
- Govern business metadata and definitions by coordinating maintenance activities, overseeing Dataspot workflows, monitoring completeness and quality, and supporting review, approval, and publication.
- Support Data Stewards and Data Definition Owners in creating clear, business-friendly, high-quality definitions across the Conceptual Data Model, Reference Data Model, Metrics Model, and Data Quality Model.
- Partner with the Data Architect to populate enterprise models with high-quality content, ensuring that the Data Architect remains responsible for model architecture and structure, while the Data Governance Manager ensures stakeholder engagement and definition quality.
- Drive adoption of Data Governance practices through training, coaching, communication, change management, and promotion of data ownership and accountability.
- Monitor governance performance through relevant KPIs, such as ownership coverage, stewardship coverage, definition approval progress, metadata completeness, governance participation, maturity, and policy compliance.
- Identify improvement opportunities by assessing process effectiveness, gathering stakeholder feedback, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending changes to standards, processes, and operating models.
- Act as the Data Governance subject matter expert for projects, business stakeholders, Data Domain Owners, and Data Stewards.
Requirements
- 4-5 years of hands-on experience in Data Governance, Data Management or metadata management
- Strong understanding of Data Governance operating models, including roles such as Data Domain Owner, Data Definition Owner, Data Steward, Data Maintenance Owner, and related governance forums
- Experience in designing, maintaining, and improving governance policies, standards, guidelines, processes, and practical workflows
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage both business and technical stakeholders
- Ability to explain Data Management concepts in a clear, practical, and persuasive way to stakeholders with different levels of data maturity
- Experience in driving adoption, training role owners, supporting change management, and building active governance communities
- Strong quality mindset and attention to detail, especially when reviewing business definitions, metadata, and documentation for clarity, consistency, and compliance with standards
- Ability to work closely with Data Architects and implementation teams while maintaining a clear distinction between governance content ownership and data model architecture responsibilities
- Fluency in English, both spoken and written