Information Technology Services (ITS) at the MCCCD is looking for a strategic and technically savvy Data Governance Manager to lead the District's enterprise data governance program while also serving as a senior steward for critical data domains. While establishing governance policies, standards, stewardship practices, quality controls, and accountability models, you will directly influence trust, consistency, security, and appropriate use of enterprise data across academic, student, administrative, and operational functions.
This position combines program leadership, cross-functional governance, and hands-on data stewardship.The Data Governance Manager works closely with Information Technology Services, Institutional Research, analytics teams, functional leaders, application owners, and security/privacy stakeholders to define how data is governed, documented, protected, and used across the District. The role is prime for someone who understands the importance and interrelatedness of student and employee data protections, public-records requirements, and enterprise technology governance.
Essential Functions
30% - Enterprise Data Governance Leadership
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the District's enterprise data governance framework
- Define governance policies, standards, procedures, and operating models for data quality, data ownership, access, lifecycle management, metadata, lineage, retention, and appropriate use of data
- Establish governance structures such as data councils, stewardship forums, issue escalation paths, and decision-making processes
- Partner with District and college stakeholders to clarify roles and accountability for enterprise data assets
- Promote a culture in which data is managed as a shared institutional asset supporting student, academic, operational, and executive decision-making
25% - Program Operations and Team Leadership
- Plan, organize, assign, supervise, review, and evaluate the work of staff
- Identify training needs and opportunities, support professional growth activities and encourage team members to use MCCCD funds to seek out external training/conferences
- Manage governance workstreams, stewardship activities, issue logs, and roadmap priorities
- Track governance maturity, policy adoption, quality trends, and stewardship outcomes
- Contribute to broader technology governance and enterprise data strategy efforts within ITS and across the District, consistent with MCCCD's technology-governance direction
25% - Technical Governance and Stewardship
- Serve as a senior data steward for selected enterprise data domains, helping define business terms, critical data elements, quality rules, and approved usage standards
- Partner with data architects, engineers, analysts, and functional teams to ensure governance requirements are operationalized in systems, pipelines, models, and reporting assets
- Review data structures, definitions, metadata, and transformation logic to ensure alignment with governance expectations
- Support the development of data dictionaries, glossaries, stewardship workflows, and business-rule documentation
- Help identify, prioritize, and resolve data quality issues, definition conflicts, and cross-system inconsistencies
10% - Privacy, Security, and Compliance Alignment
- Work closely with privacy, cybersecurity, records, legal, and technology leadership to ensure governance practices align with District obligations related to information security, privacy, retention, and records accessibility
- Support governance controls for sensitive data domains, including student, employee, finance, and operational data
- Ensure stewardship and governance processes account for FERPA and related student-record requirements, employee data protections, and records-retention expectations for electronic information
- Help define standards for appropriate data access, classification, auditability, and responsible data sharing
10% - Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management
- Facilitate collaboration across colleges, District Office, IT, analytics, institutional research, and business functions to improve common understanding of enterprise data
- Lead working sessions to define common metrics, authoritative sources, stewardship responsibilities, and governance priorities
- Drive adoption of governance practices through communication, training, documentation, and process integration
- Translate complex technical and policy issues into clear, practical guidance for business and technical audiences
- Perform related duties as assigned