Senior Data Governance Analyst

About MediaRadar MediaRadar , equips marketing, sales and analytics leaders with the intelligence they need to stay ahead. Our platform delivers always-on, AI-enabled Creative, Competitive, Commercial and Market Intelligence—spanning ad strategy, media spend, creative assets and brand messaging across 30+ media channels and five million brands. With deep insights into more than 35 million ad and campaign assets and $280 billion in media spend, MediaRadar provides a single, interoperable source of truth that plugs seamlessly into enterprise analytics and AI systems. The result: faster, cleaner and more actionable intelligence that drives competitive advantage. About the Role As a Senior Data Governance Leader, you will drive the operational transformation of our global governance function, turning multi-industry legacy data into a unified, production-ready foundation. You will partner with Data Operations, ML teams, and international hubs to establish core quality baselines and architect scalable taxonomy and MDM structures. This is a high-impact, execution-focused role for a builder who excels at translating governance policy into testable, working artifacts—ensuring our standards remain consistent, conflict-free, and actively enforced at scale. Responsibilities - Author, maintain, and version enterprise taxonomies, business term definitions, and master data hierarchies to consolidate legacy structures across four distinct organizations and two industries into a single unified taxonomy. - Translate governance strategies into structured, testable data quality rules—assigning consistent rule IDs across taxonomies to ensure governance actively runs in production systems. - Run routine rule-library analysis to detect duplicates, conflicts, and coverage gaps, and prepare findings for governance review. - Maintain metadata, documentation, and change history so definitions and rules remain traceable and auditable. - Support intake and triage of new rule and definition requests from Data Operations and business stakeholders. - Prepare reference data and golden-record candidates for governance certification, flagging anomalies and exceptions. - Produce clear documentation and quick-reference guides that help stewards and analysts standards independently. - Assist in preparing governance reporting, dashboards, and stakeholder updates. Success Measures Success in this role will be measured by: - Rule & Taxonomy Integrity – Low and declining rates of duplicate, conflicting, or orphaned rules and definitions. - Coverage – Measurable progress against taxonomy and reference data coverage targets across tiers. - Turnaround – Timely, accurate processing of rule and definition requests within agreed SLAs. - Traceability – Complete, auditable change history and documentation for governed artifacts. - Usability – Stewards and analysts can standards from documentation without repeated escalation. - Operationalization – Authored rules and definitions are actively used in classification and quality workflows. Key Qualifications and Role Requirements - 5+ years of hands-on experience in Data Governance, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, or Data Architecture. - Proven experience building and operationalizing data governance foundations, taxonomies, and MDM frameworks from the ground up (not just maintaining existing frameworks). - Hands-on experience maintaining taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, business glossaries, or rule libraries. - Strong attention to detail and comfort working with structured data, spreadsheets, and governance tooling. - Ability to translate governance decisions into precise, consistent, testable rules. - Comfort with ambiguity and evolving standards in a maturing governance environment. - Familiarity with data quality dimensions (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness). - Exposure to DAMA / DMBOK concepts a plus. - Clear written and verbal communication skills. Benefits At MediaRadar, we a