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Technical Lead Data Governance
Houston, Texas
R000065397
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Demonstrate core high performance behaviors – thrive in a highly collaborative, project-based environment, and tackle complex business problems to reach creative, yet practical solutions.
- Collaborative
- Analytical
- Communicator
- Strategic
- Results-Driven
- Problem-Solver
Technical Lead Data Governance
Houston, Texas
R000065397
Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Technical Lead Data Governancethrough August 26, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. (Central Time).
Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to:
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of data governance tools and platforms.
- Partner with architects to build scalable solutions for metadata management, data cataloging, and data quality improvement.
- Evaluate, implement, and integrate industry-leading tools such as Collibra, Microsoft Purview, Neo4j, Profisee, Erwin, and Databricks Unity Catalog.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand governance needs and translate them into technical solutions.
- Establish and enforce best practices for data governance tool usage, integration, and lifecycle management.
- Supervise, mentor and guide a team of engineers and analysts in delivering high-impact solutions.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise data governance strategy, processes, and compliance requirements.
- Monitor tool performance, adoption, and effectiveness; continuously optimize for scalability and usability.
Experience:
- Experience in data management, data governance, or related domains.
- Experience leading technical teams in building and deploying data governance solutions.
- Proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade solutions in areas such as, Data cataloging and inventory, MDM, Data lineage and Data quality monitoring and remediation
- Experience working with industry-standard data governance tools and integrations with other services and custom apps.
- Experience with cloud-native data ecosystems and modern data platforms.
- Strong background in team development, .Net, API integration, and Azure and familiarity using Ansible for deployments and BI tools such as Power BI
- Use of ADO to manage a cross regional team
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in managing cross-regional teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- Technical knowledge of Data Factory Solutions (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Databricks), MDM technologies (e.g. Profisee), Data Quality technologies (e.g. Collibra).
- Proven experience in data management, analytics, and leadership roles.
- Proven experience and expertise in global technical deployments and management of change.
- Managing a remote team and working across different time zones.
- Strong knowledge of data governance, architecture, data modeling, and database management systems.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in energy or supply chain sector
Relocation Options:
Relocationmay beconsidered.
International Considerations:
Expatriate assignmentswill not beconsidered.
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