Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thermo Fisher Scientific is a leader in clinical research utilizing digital innovation and data science to enhance drug development. The Director of Data Governance will establish and lead the data governance program, ensuring high-quality, trusted, and compliant data across the organization to support scientific and operational decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute CRG Digital’s data governance vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap
- Establish governance priorities aligned to business objectives, regulatory requirements, and digital transformation initiatives
- Build and lead the Data Governance Center of Excellence (CoE), including establishing governance forums, operating models, and engagement processes
- Develop KPIs and maturity metrics to measure governance adoption, data quality, and business value realization
- Establish and enforce enterprise data governance policies, processes, and standards ensuring data quality, integrity, security, and compliance
- Translate high-level policy into practical rules, controls, and implementation frameworks
- Codify and socialize best practices across divisions to drive consistency and scalability
- Ensure alignment with regulatory, privacy, security, and audit requirements
- Lead enterprise MDM strategy and execution across key data domains
- Define data ownership, stewardship models, and governance workflows
- Oversee data profiling, quality monitoring, issue remediation, and MDM logic
- Partner with technology teams to ensure governance capabilities are embedded into platforms, tools, and architecture
- Establish and evolve CRG Digital’s data governance organization and operating model
- Partner with divisional data owners, IT, analytics, compliance, and business leadership to embed governance into core processes
- Chair and lead CRG Data Governance CoE forums and cross-functional councils
- Drive adoption through strong change management, communication, and executive engagement
- Mitigate data risk through proactive governance controls and monitoring
- Ensure data supports regulatory compliance and audit readiness
- Identify and work to resolve systemic data quality and integrity issues impacting enterprise operations
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience in data governance, data management, analytics, or enterprise data leadership roles (comparable to 10+ years)
- 5+ years in leadership capacity with program ownership or CoE leadership responsibility
- Proven experience designing and operating enterprise data governance and/or MDM programs
- Hands-on experience with data catalog, metadata, and data quality tools (e.g., Informatica, Talend, Data.World, Collibra, Snowflake, or similar)
- Experience in regulated data environments (e.g., clinical/GxP/Part 11/GDPR/HIPAA)
- Experience in making data AI/ML ready
- Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner
- Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours
- Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency
- Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening
- Advanced degree preferred
- Exposure to GxP environments and regulations such as 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11, and global data integrity expectations preferred
- Experience in a CRO, eClinical data provider, pharmaceutical/biotech company, or digital health/data startup strongly preferred
- Certifications preferred: Certified Data Steward (CDS), Certified Information Management Practitioner (CIMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Benefits
- Variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy
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