Job Description

Job Title Data Governance Lead | Bangalore or Kochi
Summary This role leads data governance and quality initiatives to ensure accurate, consistent, and trusted data for business intelligence and analytics. It involves defining standards, managing data dictionaries, mapping data, and resolving data issues while collaborating with stakeholders. The position requires expertise in BI tools (Power BI), SQL, data governance platforms, and strong experience in data management and analytics integration.

About The Role:

• Lead the definition, documentation, and enforcement of data governance standards, policies, and processes to ensure data quality, consistency, and usability across business intelligence and analytics deliverables for the client.
• Maintain and enhance business glossary and data dictionaries for BI-relevant data domains, facilitating common understanding across users and platforms.
• Serve as the SME representing the data team in discussions, forums and committees with business & technical teams to address data-related business needs and ensure alignment on data strategy and priorities.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to identify and manage Critical Data Elements (CDEs), ensuring alignment with client-specific analytics requirements, and support the definition and implementation of data quality business rules for standard or custom datasets.
• Lead source-to-target data mapping activities, as needed, to ensure complete and accurate integration of data to be used in analytics reporting.
• Translate BI business requirements into clear data requirements, including assisting in the definition of business logic and transformation rules to ensure alignment between analytics outputs and underlying data structures.
• Conduct data profiling, data lineage analysis, and data quality assessments to support root cause analysis and continuous improvement of BI data assets.
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues, dashboard data gaps, and anomalies in data feeds (such as missing columns or inaccurate outputs) to ensure reliable and trusted analytics delivery.
• Assess the adequacy of current data sources and identify opportunities to enhance analytics outputs by integrating additional internal, external, or third-party data sources when appropriate.
• Partner with the BI resource, platform data engineers, platform data analysts, and product teams to ensure governed, accurate, and timely data integration into the data platform and business intelligence dashboards.
• Lead or support user acceptance testing (UAT) for data-related feature enhancements, ensuring requirements are met and changes are accurately reflected in the data platform and BI outputs.

About You:

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, or Data Compliance.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in Data Management/Data Operations activities (e.g., data analysis, data mapping, data profiling).
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in Business Intelligence, with demonstrated proficiency in designing, developing, and deploying reports using Power BI.
• Very good knowledge of SQL queries and understanding of SQL Server databases.
• Experience with Data Governance tools such as Unity Catalog, Purview, Collibra is recommended.
• Experience supporting a technology product, platform, or software solution is recommended.
• Experience with ETL tools, business analytics, and commercial real estate data is recommended
• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering, or related disciplines.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.
We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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