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Data Governance Lead
Job location: Remote in India
About the role:
As a Data Governance Lead, you will oversee the creation of Data Governance policies and practices, the creation and maintenance of a Data Asset Registry, and the implementation of Data Access Control across platforms.
The successful candidate will be well-versed in data governance general concepts, up-to-date with current trends, and aware of tools and technologies that will help achieve our goals. They will have a good grasp of technology and be able to contribute to technical discussions that will aim to strengthen our data governance practices. All the while, they will be astute communicators able to navigate a complex organization distributed across multiple countries.
An outgoing team member set up the basic structure for access control across the organization and for our data asset registry. Working closely with the Head of Data, your role will be to finalize this work and establish clear, robust, and well-defined policies for data governance across our growing enterprise. This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact on the company’s data practices at a pivotal point in setting up governance practices.
About the role:
As a Data Governance Lead, you will oversee the creation of Data Governance policies and practices, the creation and maintenance of a Data Asset Registry, and the implementation of Data Access Control across platforms.
The successful candidate will be well-versed in data governance general concepts, up-to-date with current trends, and aware of tools and technologies that will help achieve our goals. They will have a good grasp of technology and be able to contribute to technical discussions that will aim to strengthen our data governance practices. All the while, they will be astute communicators able to navigate a complex organization distributed across multiple countries.
An outgoing team member set up the basic structure for access control across the organization and for our data asset registry. Working closely with the Head of Data, your role will be to finalize this work and establish clear, robust, and well-defined policies for data governance across our growing enterprise. This is a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact on the company’s data practices at a pivotal point in setting up governance practices.
What you will be expected to do:
- Find practical and viable solutions to adapt our architecture to local rules and regulations on data management in the countries we operate in.
- Enable the transfer of data ownership from the data team to the teams producing the data, including creating communication channels and guiding the teams to empower them to make choices about their data.
- Become an expert in our tech stack (Looker, AWS) and ETL pipeline to envision the best practical solutions to control access to data.
- Maintain an up-to-date Data Asset Registry to maintain the highest level of access while ensuring the protection of our proprietary and customer data.
- Standardize data definitions, descriptions, and other metadata, and work with technical data teams to maintain the data dictionary.
- Define data access policies for teams and roles inside and outside of the organization with approval from the Executives of the company.
- Define KPIs for data quality and set up monitoring mechanisms.
- Set up and conduct data compliance training.
- Establish data lifecycle management in compliance with data retention policies (creation to data deletion).
- Redesign our data lake/database to ensure compliance with PII and security standards.
- Work with technical teams to identify and implement solutions to improve data access and data protection.
- Work with our Cloud Security team to identify and resolve security risks posed by data sharing policies and their implementation.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering field, Business Administration, or Public Administration
- 4+ years of overall experience in a highly technical environment
- 2+ years working in a data governance role with increasing ownership
- Strong grasp of Data Governance values and techniques
- Strong knowledge of databases and proficiency in SQL
- Experience with Looker is a plus
- Excellent English communication skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.