Data Governance Manager

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Position Summary

Our digital team at MPC is on a mission to create trusted and reusable data products that improve connectivity for our integrated value chains, enable fast and confident decision making, and support our business transformation. We’ve made considerable progress with data products, but our ability to scale is capped due to lagging foundational and embedded data governance structures that formalize data ownership responsibilities.

We need an experienced leader to accelerate data governance capability that enables clear data decision rights and escalation paths, simplifies and enables the responsibility for data quality, and improves data stewardship practices at enterprise scale. Success in this role will enable our business transformation by paving the road to true data-driven decision making, at the speed we need, and with quality and confidence the business demands.

In this role, you will collaborate with our digital team, business data domain owners, and business data stewards to ensure that data governance is enabling our objectives. Within our Analytics & Innovation organization, you will lead the team that builds the data governance framework, curates the data stewardship user experience of the future, and governs our enterprise data platform. We are focused on governance platform workflows, promoting discoverable and governed use of data products through our data catalog, solving master and reference data challenges, improving data quality of our data products, and ensuring the safe and compliant use of enterprise data within our data platform.

This role is ideal for a leader who brings strong stakeholder collaboration skills and a proven track record of building data governance from the ground up. Data governance needs to be embedded, practical, and explainable to the enterprise. You will serve as a bridge between business partners, digital delivery teams, and our data governance team to make this a reality.

This role is accountable for business results primarily achieved through the work of others. Manages staff, sets direction, and deploys resources. Has responsibility for employee development, performance reviews, pay reviews, and staffing decisions. Accountable for business, functional or operational areas, processes, or programs.

• Manages daily operations of the team, providing guidance, mentorship, and driving a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Oversees recruitment, development, retention, and performance to build strong talent.
• Plans and leads low- to medium-complexity IT projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and adhere to quality standards.
• Ensures the availability, reliability, and security of technology systems. Collaborates with key stakeholders and internal groups to identify needs, deliver effective solutions, and support business objectives.
• Aligns and enforces data and data product ownership decision rights, data quality, and metadata management practices, driving standards for cataloging, lineage tracking, and stewardship to ensure trust and compliance.
• Drives superior user experience across data cataloging, lineage, master data management, and data quality platforms for data owners, stewards, and technical personas.
• Consults with enterprise data councils and aligns data governance needs with our platforms and delivery model to support business objectives.
• Contributes to enterprise data stewardship programs that develop skills with awareness and training focusing on cataloging, lineage, master data management, data quality, and the overall data product strategy.
• Influences the design and evolution of scalable, secure enterprise data platforms, that deliver data products that meet enterprise data governance standards.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other computer-related degree…