Data Governance Manager – ETIC (Cairo)

About the role

We are seeking a Data Governance Manager to design, implement and lead governance programmes for our clients across the Middle East. The role will define strategy, policies and operating models that deliver trusted, compliant and high‑quality data to support advanced analytics, AI and business insights.

Key responsibilities

• Define a pragmatic data governance strategy aligned with client business outcomes.
• Establish governance operating models, councils, RACI and data owner/steward roles.
• Develop and maintain policies, standards and procedures for data quality, metadata, classification, access and retention.
• Stand up and administer enterprise data catalogs, business glossaries and manage critical data elements.
• Drive metadata standards, automated lineage and impact analysis.
• Define data quality dimensions, rules, thresholds and SLAs; implement monitoring, alerting and issue remediation.
• Partner with engineering to embed quality checks into data pipelines.
• Implement privacy‑by‑design, data classification, masking, encryption and RBAC/ABAC controls.
• Ensure compliance with regional regulations (Egypt PDPL, KSA PDPL, UAE Data Protection Law, Bahrain, Qatar, GDPR/CPRA) and sectoral requirements (SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA).
• Define retention, archival and disposal schedules; assess governance risk of new data sources and vendors.
• Lead governance councils, steward communities and deliver training and data‑literacy programs.
• Build governance scorecards covering data‑quality health, lineage coverage and policy adherence.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading data governance or data management programmes in a consulting environment.
• Strong understanding of Middle‑East data protection laws and international compliance frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across data, analytics, engineering, security, risk, legal and business units.
• Ability to translate governance concepts into practical operating models and actionable policies.

Required skills

• Azure
• Databricks
• Data catalog and metadata management tools
• Data quality monitoring and remediation
• Data lineage and impact analysis
• RBAC / ABAC access controls
• Data masking and encryption techniques
• Privacy‑by‑design principles
• GDPR and regional PDPL compliance knowledge