Senior Manager, Data Governance, Operations NA

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

Salary: $170,000–$180,000 base salary plus bonus.

Company

hirify.global Data Centers designs and operates data centers across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific for hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the North America Operations data-governance framework, roadmap, decision rights, forums, and operating practices.
• Establish data-owner and data-steward accountability while resolving data ownership, definition, access, usage, and quality issues.
• Define critical data elements, quality rules, validation criteria, thresholds, controls, and remediation workflows.
• Maintain business definitions, metric definitions, metadata, approved sources, ownership records, and data lineage across analytics and reporting.
• Embed governance requirements into data products, analytics, and AI solutions, including documentation, provenance, risk assessment, access, oversight, and monitoring controls.
• Develop playbooks, training, feedback loops, adoption measures, and automation opportunities to improve governance maturity and scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in data management, information systems, computer science, engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in data governance, data management, analytics, data products, or a related discipline.
• Experience implementing governance operating models, 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, metadata, lineage, data quality, observability, access controls, information protection, and AI-governance practices.
• Ability to facilitate decisions, influence stakeholders without direct authority, and collaborate across business, data, technology, risk, and compliance teams.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work policy with a collaborative, no-ego work environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and employee assistance coverage.
• Paid time off and participation in a 401(k) program with company match.
• Training, development, recognition, and additional voluntary benefits.
• Above-market total compensation and opportunities to contribute to operational reliability, growth, and sustainability.