Director, Enterprise Data Governance

About the role

Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBG) is seeking a full-time Director of Enterprise Data Governance to join our growing company and work under the direction of our Executive Director of Enterprise Data & Insights (ED&I).

Responsibilities

• Define, lead, and mature Sinclair’s enterprise data governance strategy, roadmap, and framework.
• Establish enterprise governance principles, policies, standards, roles, decision rights, and accountability structures across priority data domains.
• Partner with ED&I leadership and business stakeholders to align governance priorities with enterprise business goals.
• Identify and prioritize critical data domains, critical data elements, authoritative sources, and enterprise data risks.
• Translate business priorities and data pain points into practical governance standards, controls, and improvement plans.
• Operationalize the data governance framework through clear roles, forums, workflows, and stewardship practices.
• Build and support a network of business data owners, technical data owners, and data stewards across the organization.
• Chair or facilitate governance forums, data councils, working groups, and decision-making bodies.
• Define escalation paths and issue resolution processes for enterprise data governance matters.
• Promote alignment between data owners, data stewards, technology teams, and governance stakeholders to drive policy adherence and issue resolution.
• Establish enterprise data quality standards, measures, scorecards, controls, and remediation processes.
• Partner with business and technical teams to identify data quality gaps, root causes, and sustainable remediation plans.
• Track and report data quality trends, risks, issues, and improvement progress to leadership.
• Drive accountability for data quality across business domains and enterprise platforms.
• Promote consistent data practices that improve confidence in reporting, analytics, operational processes, and decision-making.
• Develop and maintain enterprise data governance policies, standards, procedures, and supporting documentation.
• Partner with legal, privacy, information security, compliance, and audit teams to align governance practices with corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Support data classification, responsible data use, access management, retention, privacy, and security practices.
• Identify and communicate governance-related risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Ensure governance processes support ethical, secure, compliant, and effective use of data across Sinclair.
• Serve as a senior advocate for enterprise data governance and data as a strategic asset.
• Develop communications, training, playbooks, and adoption strategies to embed governance practices into business and technology workflows.
• Influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without relying solely on direct authority.
• Manage, mentor, and develop data governance team members as the function grows.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Analytics, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 10+ years of experience leading business operations, finance operations, data governance, data management, enterprise process improvement, analytics, or a related function.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing teams, programs, or enterprise-level initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving business processes, systems, reporting, data quality, controls, and stakeholder alignment.
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, data stewardship, metadata management, data quality, master data management, data lineage, and data lifecycle management.
• Experience working with Finance, billing, credit, collections, customer, revenue, or related operational data domains.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships across business and technology teams and influence outcomes without relying solely on direct authority.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes, clarify ownership, document processes, and drive sustainable improvements.
• Able to translate business needs into data definitions, standards, controls, stewardship expectations, and governance processes.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, documentation, and change management skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to data quality, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading teams or enterprise initiatives involving billing, credit, collections, revenue operations, customer data, financial reporting, or related business processes.
• Experience participating in system implementations, process redesign, data cleanup, reporting improvement, audit, compliance, or controls initiatives.
• Exposure to data governance, data stewardship, metadata management, data quality, master data management, or business glossary practices.
• DAMA CDMP certification, Dataversity certification, process improvement, finance, or related certification.
• Experience in media, advertising, broadcast, digital, sports, entertainment, or another data-rich consumer-facing industry.
• Experience with enterprise change management, training, communications, and governance adoption strategies.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms, data lakes, data warehouses, master data management platforms, data governance tools, and modern analytics ecosystems.