Manager, Data Governance

Job title: Manager, Data Governance

Company: McDonald’s


Job description: About McDonalds in IndiaOne of the world’s largest employers with locations in more than 100 countries McDonald’s Corporation has corporate opportunities in Hyderabad. Our global offices serve as dynamic innovation and operations hubs, designed to expand McDonald’s global talent base and in-house expertise. Our new office in Hyderabad will bring together knowledge across business, technology, analytics, and AI, accelerating our ability to deliver impactful solutions for the business and our customers across the globe.Job DescriptionPosition Summary:Manager, Data GovernanceAs the Data Governance Policy Support Manager, you will lead efforts to define, maintain, and monitor enterprise-wide data governance policies and standards. This role is central to ensuring that data is managed effectively across the organization and complies with privacy, security, and risk regulations. In addition to developing governance policies and frameworks, this role is responsible for auditing and monitoring policy adoption, working closely with global stakeholders to ensure adherence, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement.You will be pivotal in reinforcing policy alignment across business and technical domains while enabling data trust and accountability across the McDonalds data ecosystem.Who were looking for:Primary Responsibilities:

• Policy & Standards Development: Lead the creation, review, and publication of enterprise data governance policies, standards, and data quality frameworks.
• Auditing & Monitoring: Establish and manage monitoring processes and audit mechanisms to ensure policy compliance and identify areas of non-conformance. Track adherence metrics and report findings to governance councils and leadership.
• Governance & Council Support: Collaborate with Data Governance Councils and Responsible AI Councils to align policies with evolving business needs, regulatory changes, and industry best practices.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Define procedures and controls that operationalize policy requirements within data products and platforms.
• Maintain a governance policy inventory and policy lifecycle management process.
• Facilitate policy awareness and training efforts with support from L&D and enterprise change management teams.
• Partner with privacy, legal, and compliance functions to align policies with global data protection laws.
• Review feedback from data stewards, analysts, and business users to improve usability and clarity of governance policies.
• Contribute to data governance maturity assessments and readiness reviews for audits.

Skill:

• Bachelors degree in information technology, Data Science, Law, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in data governance, policy development, or risk management and compliance
• Deep understanding of data privacy, security, and regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, NIST, ISO 27001)
• Proficiency with governance platforms like Collibra and GRC tools such as OneTrust or ServiceNow IRM
• Excellent analytical, auditing, monitoring and compliance. and communication skills
• Experience developing governance training materials and facilitating adoption across cross-functional teams
• Attention to detail
• Documentation in and outside of collibra, stds / procedures / guidelines.
• Documentation policy inventory
• Collibra functional use, leveraging workflows
• Certification nice to have
• Ability to execute maturity assessments
• MDM

Work location:Hyderabad, IndiaWork pattern:Full time roleWork mode: Hybrid

Expected salary:

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Job date: Sun, 04 May 2025 07:38:04 GMT

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