Data Governance Manager

About the role

PwC's ETIC advisory practice in Cairo is looking for a client-facing Data Governance Manager. You will design and implement governance programs that make data trusted, compliant and high quality across client enterprises, working with Data/Analytics, Engineering, Security, Risk, Legal and business stakeholders across the Middle East.

Key responsibilities

• Define a pragmatic data governance strategy and set up operating models (councils, RACI, data owners and stewards)
• Maintain policies, standards and procedures for quality, metadata, classification, access and retention
• Run data catalogs, business glossaries and critical data elements, and drive metadata standards and automated lineage
• Set data quality dimensions, rules and SLAs, and monitor, alert and resolve issues
• Implement data classification and privacy-by-design, and work with Security/IAM on RBAC/ABAC, masking and encryption
• Support compliance with regional laws (Egypt, KSA, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar), GDPR/CPRA and sectoral rules (SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA where relevant)
• Define retention schedules, review data sharing agreements and vendors, and advise on cross-border transfers
• Lead governance councils, run training and data literacy programs, and build governance scorecards
• Manage governance tooling, write playbooks and templates, and contribute to proposals and solutioning

Required profile

• 5+ years in data governance/data management, including at least 2 years leading multi-stakeholder initiatives; consulting experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data/Analytics or related field
• Fluent English; Arabic is a strong plus
• Work authorization in Egypt

Required skills

• DAMA-DMBOK and/or DCAM grounding
• Data cataloging, lineage, data quality frameworks, data classification and access governance
• Tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica Axon/EDC, Atlan, Microsoft Purview, Informatica IDQ, Great Expectations, MANTA/OpenLineage, Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and strong SQL
• IAM concepts (RBAC/ABAC), masking, tokenization, API governance, CDC/event schemas
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2 is a plus