The Director, Enterprise Data Steward serves as the enterprise leader for ensuring an overarching enterprise data strategy by building a trusted framework to support data governance, stewardship, accountability, and adoption. This role is responsible for establishing standards, facilitating governance decisions, enabling business ownership, and promoting use of trusted data assets.
Specifically, this role is not responsible for:
• Serving as primary owner of business data domains
• Replacing designated business data owners or operational decision makers
• Maintaining production reporting or report-development resources
• Managing day-to-day reporting requests or data tickets
• Owning technology delivery, system implementation, application development, or data engineering execution activities
• Functioning as the sole decision maker for enterprise data priorities
Success in the role depends on leveraging influence with stakeholders, enabling accountability and governing data practices, rather than serving in a direct operational ownership or technology delivery activities.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Analytics, Data Science or a related field required.
• 8+ years of experience leading enterprise data strategy, data management, analytics, or large scale digital transformation initiatives
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing teams and influencing cross-functional, matrixed organizations.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data management concepts including data modeling, reporting environments, integrations, metadata management, and analytics platforms.
• Experience leading data governance committees – driving policies, standards, KPIs, and data-driven decision-making.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing enterprise data governance programs.
• Proven success leading enterprise change initiatives requiring influence without direct authority.
• Experience implementing advanced analytics and AI-enabled solutions in a business environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree or MBA with a concentration in data, analytics, or technology preferred.
• Experience developing data ownership, stewardship, accountability, or operating models preferred.
• Familiarity with healthcare or dental insurance data (claims, eligibility, provider networks, regulatory reporting) preferred.
24012-1303
10/13/2026
Enterprise Data Strategy & Governance
• Develop, document, and implement the enterprise data governance framework, including data ownership models, stewardship responsibilities, decision rights, escalation paths, policies, and operating procedures.
• Establish and mature enterprise data governance, including data stewardship, data ownership, data quality standards, metadata management, lineage, business glossaries, certified KPIs, and standardized data definitions.
• Identify and establish Data Owners across critical business domains and facilitate accountability for data quality, access, usage, and business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain enterprise data governance policies, issue-resolution processes, and data decision-making frameworks.
• Lead and facilitate a cross-functional data governance council to align stakeholders, resolve data issues, approve new data elements, and ensure accountability.
Data Coordination, Integration Prioritization & Business Alignment
• Partner with NorthWinds Technology Solutions (NWTS), business reporting, and other business leaders to prioritize enterprise data initiatives and translate business needs into governed data requirements.
• Work with technology and analytics teams to ensure governance requirements, data definitions, ownership standards, and quality controls are incorporated into enterprise solutions.
• Coordinate enterprise integration priorities and facilitate resolution of cross-functional data issues affecting business performance and decision making.
Data Adoption & Change Leadership
• Establish enterprise data literacy and stewardship awareness programs.
• Develop training, communication, and adoption plans supporting governance initiatives.
• Promote consistent enterprise use of approved definitions, KPIs, and data assets.
• Drive reduction of manual reporting, spreadsheet-dependent processes, and redundant reporting activities.
• Monitor adoption and utilization of governed data products and reporting assets.
• Partner with business leaders to embed data-driven decision-making practices into day-to-day operations.
Analytics & Business Enablement
• Enable enterprise reporting and analytics by ensuring data assets are accurate, accessible, secure, and fit for purpose.
• Establish, influence and maintain best practice governance and standards for the Power BI reporting (or other) ecosystem
• Bridge the gap between governance policies and operational execution, so data can be confidently used for business decision-making.
• Partner with Business Reporting, actuarial, analytics, and operational leaders to prioritize enterprise use cases and improve adoption of trusted data assets, dashboards, analytics solutions, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Proactively identify and prioritize high-impact analytics and data use cases that drive operational efficiency and business outcomes.
• Establish governance and certification standards for enterprise reporting, KPIs, and Power BI assets.
