Enterprise Data Architect & Governance Lead – 9-month engagement (UK Remote)

Overview

In this role you will shape Turnitin’s enterprise data strategy, establishing trusted, scalable information for company-wide decision making. You will work with executives to understand current analytics, define a practical target state, and create a roadmap for implementation. You’ll balance enterprise consistency with functional autonomy while improving confidence in executive reporting. This is an opportunity to influence governance, architecture, and metrics across a global SaaS business.

Pay / Benefits

• Remote first culture
• Health care coverage
• Education reimbursement
• Competitive paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan with match

Responsibilities

• Assess Turnitin’s current reporting and analytics landscape
• Identify root causes of fragmented reporting and conflicting metrics
• Define ownership and governance principles for critical enterprise data
• Develop a high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics
• Establish standards for enterprise metric definitions and trusted reporting
• Recommend an operating model balancing enterprise consistency with functional autonomy
• Produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment
• Facilitate alignment across executive and business stakeholders

Key requirements

• 10+ years in enterprise data governance, architecture, analytics governance, or enterprise reporting controls
• Experience across Finance, Revenue Operations, HR, Engineering, Product, and Business Intelligence
• Strong understanding of data lineage, data quality controls, source-system reconciliation, data transformation, and reporting controls
• Experience supporting Executive, Board & Investor Reporting
• Experience defining governance frameworks, ownership models, and metric standards
• Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional agreement on enterprise metric definitions and ownership
• Experience designing operating models for enterprise data functions including governance forums and resources
• Familiarity with privacy considerations relating to customer and employee data
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong documentation and process design skills

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Executive communication
• Facilitation
• Enterprise data architecture
• Data governance
• Analytics governance

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