American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) · 23 hours ago
Director, Data Management & Governance
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years expAmerican Public Education, Inc. (APEI) is seeking a strategic, senior data and technology leader for the Director, Data Management & Governance role. This position is responsible for improving outcomes with data and analytics, driving effective use of enterprise data, and leading the data management and governance strategy across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Define and execute the enterprise data management and governance strategy aligned to business objectives and overall data/analytics senior leadership vision and strategy
Owns roadmap for strategic data management and governance
Build and lead a high-performing organization wide data stewardship community of practice that is domain embedded and has clear data ownership
Build and lead an efficient and effective enterprise data management team and function
Lead master data management strategy, delivery, and operations that also includes key enterprise reference data management
Lead building and scaling metadata management efforts along with implementing and maintaining our enterprise data catalog
Lead Data Management & Governance to operationalize policies as code (RBAC, masking, row-level security, audit logging)
Designs and implements processes and systems for regulatory compliance (e.g. FERPA, GDPR, CCPA)
Establish platform governance for security compliance
Drives design and implementation of scalable, resilient data pipelines for master data management workloads
Ensure observability, lineage, and quality frameworks are embedded in pipelines and orchestration
Lead cross functional efforts to improve data quality, focused around areas where data quality creates friction to a broader business initiative, driver, or efficiency outcome
Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement while leveraging AI to improve data management efficiency and effectiveness
Mentor the team and technical leads and develop succession plans
Owns budgeting and forecasting for the MDM and data catalog platforms along with vendor and partner management
Plans work and team capacity with the team, peer leaders, and data product owners/management
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
10+ years in data related roles
5+ years in data management/governance leadership
7+ years in overall data leadership experience
Expertise with data governance frameworks (DCAM, DAMA), automated policy enforcement, and modern approaches to governance that are more business value driven and partnership centric
Proven experience with cloud data platforms with Snowflake, Azure and Coalesce.io/DBT or similar ELT pipeline and orchestration tools
Cloud data catalog and MDM program, delivery, platform, and operations experience
Expertise in SQL
Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures
Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Knowledge of data quality frameworks, lineage tools, MDM tools, and observability platforms
Solid planning, priority setting, product and project management skills with demonstrated experience managing multiple projects and cross functional teams concurrently
Strong experience with leading globally distributed remote teams including employees and contract delivery teams
Track record of delivering large-scale, mission-critical data management solutions with measurable business impact
Strategic thinking with ability to translate business goals into platform capabilities
Exceptional stakeholder management and influence across business and technology
Build talent: proven ability to attract, develop, motivate, and retain top data management talent
Strong experience modernizing and maturing organizational data management practices along with establishing a culture of continuous improvement
In-depth knowledge of architectural best practices, design patterns, governance and security principles
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate and lead effectively with all levels of the organization from data engineers to C-Level executives
Preferred
Product management experience
Data as a product experience
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent with Master's in Data/Analytics related degree
Company
American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)
American Public Education, Inc.
Founded in 1991Charles Town, West Virginia, USA
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$92M2021-03-01Post Ipo Equity· $92M
2007-11-09IPO
2005-11-01Series B
Leadership Team
Angela Selden
President and CEO
James Kenigsberg
Interim Chief Innovation and Technology Officer
Recent News
2026-01-08
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