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Overview

Join the EDC Team. At EDC, we support Canadian businesses to succeed globally by providing the financial tools and expertise needed to explore current markets and reduce risks, supporting growth and trade.

Position: Director, Data Management & Governance

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Ontario – Ottawa (hybrid; three in-office days per week; relocation assistance available for eligible candidates)

Compensation: Salaries typically range from $129,928 to $173,235 annually, based on qualifications and experience, plus a performance-based incentive.

Team & Role Context

The Director, Data Management and Governance leads the enterprise-wide data governance and stewardship function and serves as the central authority for data ownership, governance, and stewardship across the organization. The role strengthens data ownership, stewardship, and governance practices to ensure data is trusted, well-managed, and fit for strategic, operational, and risk-management use. The Director leads a team of 5-6 contributors in a matrixed environment, guiding stakeholders around shared data standards, priorities, and outcomes. The role balances enterprise consistency with domain accountability to enable governance at scale without constraining delivery. It champions data as a strategic enterprise asset with common definitions, standards, metadata, and quality practices to support consistent understanding and use of data across the organization. A core focus is embedding data governance and stewardship early in initiatives including strategic programs, data modernization, and system implementations, shaping data requirements, standards, and controls upfront to improve data quality and accelerate adoption of trusted data. The Director also builds a strong data culture, maturing the data steward role, strengthening data literacy, and fostering communities of practice to reinforce accountability for data across leadership and operations. The Director, Data Management and Governance reports to the Vice President, Enterprise Analytics & Forecasting (EAF).

What You Will Be Doing

- Serve as the enterprise authority for data governance and stewardship, setting direction and decision frameworks.
- Define, evolve,



and operationalize the enterprise Data Governance framework aligned to business strategy and risk expectations.
- Establish governance forums, escalation paths, and decision rights for data-related issues.
- Drive executive awareness, engagement, and sponsorship of the data governance mandate.
- Ensure all critical enterprise data has clearly defined Data Owners and Data Stewards with documented accountabilities.
- Mature the Data Steward role through standards, training, communities of practice, and ongoing engagement.
- Lead enterprise Data Steward forums, councils, and working groups.
- Lead the development, simplification, and renewal of data-related policies and standards and oversee compliance.
- Support internal audit, risk control self-assessments (RCSA), and remediation activities related to data governance.
- Provide governance oversight for data access, usage, monitoring, and controls.
- Lead the development and enterprise adoption of the Enterprise Data Catalog.
- Oversee metadata, business glossary, and data asset inventory practices to support data discovery, shared vocabulary, and reuse.
- Drive catalog modernization initiatives and targeted training to increase adoption and value realization.
- Establish and promote enterprise data quality standards, metrics, and monitoring practices.
- Improve enterprise visibility into data quality through reporting, certification, and metadata integration.
- Embed data governance and stewardship into enterprise initiatives, system implementations, and data modernization programs.
- Provide advisory input to ensure data requirements, standards, and risks are addressed early in delivery lifecycles.
- Build strong partnerships across business, analytics, technology, risk, security, and strategy functions.




- Align competing priorities and governance models to enable coherent, enterprise-wide data practices.
- Lead and develop a high-performing data governance and stewardship team.
- Foster a strong data culture grounded in ownership, accountability, and literacy.
- Build sustainable stewardship capability across the enterprise.

What We’re Looking For

- Successful experience in business and data modernization in large organizations.
- Ability to translate business strategy into data requirements, and vice-versa.
- Ability to define and sustainably implement new ways of working.
- Demonstrated team-building and partnership capabilities.
- Customer-first mindset.
- Experience designing, developing, and deploying end-to-end data governance frameworks for a global financial institution.
- Experience developing new and innovative success metrics for a forward-thinking data-enabled digital organization.
- Minimum 5 years leadership and change management experience.
- Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS, or related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in business intelligence and reporting, data management, or related field.
- Advanced knowledge of BI and reporting principles and practices.
- Bilingual in both of Canada’s official languages.

What Will Make You Stand Out

- Good understanding of EDC’s business context.
- Hands-on data steward experience.

Eligibility and Equal Opportunity

EDC is committed to fair employment practices. Preference will be given to candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada at the time of application (Canadian Citizens or permanent residents). Candidates must meet government security screening requirements. This position is open to those who meet all essential requirements by the closing date.

EDC actively encourages applications from women, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

Additional Information

Posting date: Apr 8, 2026. Primary location: Ontario – Ottawa. Job type: Permanent. Schedule: Full-time. For more information, visit our website at edc.ca.

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