Lead/Director, Data Governance & Analytics Architecture

Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience. 

The opportunity

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries. 

We are proud of: 

• The work we do and the innovation we drive 
• Our values of share, care and dare 
• A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy 
• Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration 

 

The role  

We are seeking a senior, client‑facing data leader to serve as a strategic partner across data governance, analytics architecture, and governed data product definition. This role acts as a critical bridge between client business stakeholders and a hybrid client/engineering delivery team, ensuring that decisions remain aligned to a clear, cohesive data governance and analytics strategy. 

This leader will help define how the governance program operates, author and socialize architecture and process standards, translate business priorities into structured data and reporting requirements, and guide engineering teams toward durable, scalable target‑state solutions. The role is especially important in environments where governance rigor, reporting integrity, and analytics product clarity must be strengthened without requiring direct ownership of upstream data pipeline implementation. 

This is a capability‑led leadership role requiring a strong combination of governance direction, architectural judgment, structured stakeholder management, and practical guidance for engineering and analytics teams. It is not a narrow specialist position, nor is it primarily an execution‑only delivery management role. 

Role responsibilities

Executive Stakeholder Leadership 

• Act as the primary liaison between senior client‑side business leaders, including executive sponsors and C‑suite stakeholders, and a hybrid client/engineering delivery team. 

• Facilitate structured decision‑making, feedback loops, and alignment forums that connect business priorities to delivery realities. 

• Translate ambiguous or evolving strategic objectives into clear governance, architecture, and analytics workstreams. 

 

Data governance program direction 

• Set the direction for operating the Data Governance program through ongoing advisory, process authorship, and operating-model refinement. 

• Connect engineering and business teams around a shared data governance strategy and target‑state roadmap, informed by structured feedback from client counterparts and executive stakeholders. 

• Drive governance clarity across metadata, standards, business definitions, and downstream reporting integrity. 

• Partner with client leadership to evolve governance practices using Microsoft Purview on Azure. 

 

Analytics architecture and specification leadership 

• Author gold-table specification documents that define target-state outputs for ETL pipelines within a medallion architecture. 

• Translate KPI, reporting, drill-down, and business decision needs into structured, engineering-ready specifications. 

• Guide architecture and semantic decisions that improve trust, reuse, and downstream analytical consistency. 

• Author and socialize architecture standards, patterns, and design decisions across teams. 

Portfolio rationalization 

• Lead portfolio rationalization as an explicit sprint activity using a defined retain / refactor / retire methodology.  

• Continuously refine the methodology, validate criteria with clientleadership, and identify the right business stakeholders for each rationalization decision.  

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