Senior Data Governance Manager, Operations NA (AI)

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States; hybrid schedule with 3 days in-office and 2 flexible days. Travel of up to 10% is expected.

Salary: $170,000–$180,000 annual base salary plus bonus. The position includes company benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops and operates data centers across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, providing infrastructure for hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the Operations data-governance framework, roadmap, decision rights, and operating practices.
• Establish data-owner and data-steward responsibilities, governance forums, escalation paths, and accountability across Operations.
• Define critical data elements, business and metric definitions, quality rules, controls, metadata, approved sources, and lineage.
• Monitor data-quality and trust indicators, investigate root causes, and coordinate remediation across business, source-system, and data teams.
• Embed governance requirements into data products, analytics, dashboards, and AI solutions, including documentation, provenance, risk assessment, human oversight, and monitoring.
• Use AI-enabled, workflow-automation, catalog, metadata, and quality tools to improve governance adoption, transparency, and scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in data management, information systems, computer science, engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least five years of experience in data governance, data management, analytics, data products, or a related discipline.
• Experience implementing governance operating models, ownership and stewardship practices, business glossaries, data catalogs, and data-quality processes.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog and Data Map or comparable platforms; working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Power Platform.
• Strong knowledge of data ownership, stewardship, metadata, lineage, data quality, observability, access controls, information protection, and AI-governance lifecycles.
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional decisions, influence without direct authority, resolve ambiguous data issues, and communicate complex concepts clearly.

Nice to have

• CDMP, DCAM/CDMC, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, data-governance, or information-protection certification.
• Experience governing data used by AI-enabled solutions such as Microsoft Copilot or Fabric data agents.
• Experience in operations, infrastructure, industrial, or another asset-intensive environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative culture focused on respect, support, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid time off, employee assistance programs, and a 401(k) program with company match.
• Training, development, recognition programs, and additional voluntary benefits.