The Company

We are an award-winning software product engineering company that has delivered bespoke web, enterprise, mobile, and cloud solutions to clients around the world for over 25 years. The company has recently expanded into AI-driven innovation, offering AI development, consulting and implementation, data engineering and master data management, and cloud architecture alongside its core software development services. We are a Microsoft Silver Partner and AWS partner, ISO certified, and a SLASSCOM member, and in 2025 won gold at every major national technology award ceremony in Sri Lanka.

With long-standing partnerships spanning 5 to 15+ years with global clients across healthcare, logistics, and enterprise software, we combine deep technical expertise with a client-first approach — helping start-ups and enterprises alike scale through digital transformation. The company prides itself on dedication, continuous improvement, and adaptability, building teams and solutions that grow and evolve alongside its clients' changing needs.

Role Overview

Establish the practical governance operating model required for trusted master data, including ownership, stewardship, attribute authority, survivorship governance, decision forums, and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Define governance operating model, roles and decision rights.
• Facilitate Data Owner and Steward nomination/onboarding.
• Create and maintain attribute-authority and data-ownership registers.
• Define stewardship role definitions, stewardship workflow, exception categories, SLAs and escalation.
• Coordinate business glossary and critical-data-element definitions.
• Define DQ KPIs and governance reporting with DQ/BI teams.
• Ensure survivorship and matching decisions have business ownership.
• Run governance forums and track decisions/actions.
• Monitors governance KPI trends generally and reports on them fortnightly alongside source data quality trends
• Support change management and progressive business adoption.

Must-Have Experience & Skills

• 5+ years data governance/MDM governance experience.
• Strong knowledge of Data Owner/Steward operating models.
• Experience in Exception-based stewardship workflow design and configuration.
• Survivorship rule documentation and version control experience
• Attribute authority, DQ governance and decision-management experience.
• Experience in Data quality KPI framework design, integrated into existing business reporting cycles
• Strong facilitation and executive/business communication.
• Ability to turn governance principles into workable operational processes

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Profisee stewardship exposure.
• Purview/catalog experience.
• Global/regional governance programme experience

Employment Details

• Employment Type: 2 Year Contract (Part Time)
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid
• Working Days: Monday to Friday
• Working Hours: 4 Hours
• Experience: 5+ years data governance/MDM governance experience.
• Communication: Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal (minimum 8/10 proficiency)