National Grid · 5 hours ago
Director, Enterprise Data Management (US)
Brooklyn, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$185K/yr - $215K/yrNational Grid is a company that delivers safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. They are seeking a Director of Enterprise Data Management to lead governance and stakeholder leadership for enterprise data model governance and cross-program data interdependency management across the US business.
DeliveryEnergyOil and Gas
Responsibilities
Own governance of the enterprise data model, including enterprise definitions, canonical entities, domain boundaries, and relationships; maintain coherent model evolution through clear change control and documentation
Establish and run the data governance operating model across the US business, including charters, decision rights, RACI, escalation paths, and a predictable cadence of councils and working groups
Operate an intake and triage mechanism that routes data issues and change requests to the right owners, drives timely decisions, and tracks outcomes through implementation and adoption
Lead cross-program data interdependency management across major initiatives, proactively identifying collisions and sequencing needs across process, system, integration, reporting, and analytics impacts
Provide enterprise-level “design tension” across solution architecture, business data leads, and delivery teams to prevent local optimization from degrading enterprise consistency or downstream usability
Adjudicate sources of record for enterprise-critical data elements when duplicative sources exist; publish decisions and ensure they are embedded into integration patterns, data products, and reporting
Define and socialize enterprise standards and required artifacts (definitions, metadata expectations, data contracts, decision logs) that enable traceability and reusable implementation guidance
Partner with Risk, Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Audit stakeholders to ensure governance supports controls, documentation, and appropriate access and change management for high-impact data
Build senior stakeholder alignment through facilitation, clear communications, and conflict resolution; translate complex data topics into business outcomes and decisions needed
Define and report governance effectiveness measures such as decision cycle time, rework avoided, standard adoption, and quality improvements on critical data elements
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
Extensive experience in enterprise data management, data governance, or large-scale transformation environments
Strong working knowledge of enterprise data modeling concepts and governance practices, including stewardship, metadata, data quality, and lineage
Practical understanding of how data architecture change affects integration and downstream consumers such as reporting, analytics, and regulatory needs
Familiarity with common data catalog/glossary, modeling, and portfolio delivery tooling
Strong change management mindset with a track record of driving adoption across multiple business units
Proven ability to lead in a matrixed environment and influence without direct authority across business and technology organizations
Demonstrated experience running senior governance forums and driving decisions with clear accountability and follow-through
Strong facilitation and communication skills, able to translate between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
Skilled in negotiation and conflict resolution; comfortable challenging constructively and aligning competing priorities
Experience coaching data owners, stewards, analysts, and architects on governance expectations and ways of working
Preferred
Master's degree
Experience with platform modernization and complex program portfolios
Company
National Grid
National Grid facilitates electricity and gas transmission system and focuses on delivering clean energy.
Founded in 1990
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.01BKey Investors
NYSERDASEKStrategic Innovation Fund
2025-08-21Grant· $2M
2025-07-08Post Ipo Debt· $937.85M
2024-09-11Grant· $19.95M
Leadership Team
Zoë Yujnovich
Chief Executive Officer
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