Principle Program Manager - Enterprise Data

About the role

The Director / Senior Director, Enterprise Information provides enterprise leadership for the strategy, governance, and execution of information capabilities that improve business performance, strengthen decision-making, protect organizational information assets, and enable sustainable growth. This role converts business strategy into an integrated enterprise information roadmap spanning data, analytics, governance, information lifecycle management, AI readiness, security, and related digital capabilities. Working across Digital Operations, Information Services, Cybersecurity, and business functions, this leader establishes priorities, operating models, governance, and investment approaches for enterprise information initiatives. The role leads a portfolio of complex, cross-functional efforts; aligns senior stakeholders around enterprise standards and outcomes; resolves organizational barriers; and ensures capabilities are scalable, practical, secure, and tied to measurable business value. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Digital Operations, the Director / Senior Director serves as a strategic advisor to executive and functional leaders on enterprise information opportunities, risks, and investments. The role is accountable for advancing McGough’s enterprise information maturity and building the organizational capabilities, partnerships, and disciplined execution needed to support long-term business priorities.

Position can be remote or based in McGough’s Roseville, MN, Dallas, TX or Raleigh, NC Offices. Travel is expected to be approximately 20% for this role. Additional travel to various national office locations may be required as determined by the individual and their manager.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve McGough’s enterprise information strategy and multi-year capability roadmap in alignment with business strategy and Digital Operations priorities; translate enterprise priorities into a sequenced portfolio of information, governance, analytics, AI, security, and business enablement initiatives with clear outcomes, sponsorship, and investment requirements; advise executive and functional leaders on information-related opportunities, risks, capability gaps, and strategic tradeoffs; establish enterprise principles, operating models, decision rights, and governance structures that enable consistent, scalable information practices; assess external trends and emerging capabilities and recommend where McGough should invest, standardize, pilot, partner, or defer.
• Lead prioritization and governance of the enterprise information portfolio, balancing business value, risk, capacity, dependencies, and strategic importance; sponsor development of business cases, investment recommendations, implementation strategies, and resource plans for major initiatives; establish portfolio-level measures of success and hold initiative leaders and stakeholders accountable for outcomes, adoption, and value realization; identify and resolve cross-enterprise dependencies, resource conflicts, and organizational barriers that threaten strategic outcomes; provide executive visibility into portfolio health, investment performance, risks, decisions, and emerging needs.
• Provide leadership for enterprise information governance in partnership with Data Governance, Information Security, Legal, Information Services, and business stakeholders; set direction for information stewardship, lifecycle management, classification, retention, privacy, sensitive information management, and enterprise data protection practices; guide enterprise approaches to AI governance and responsible information use, balancing innovation and business enablement with security, legal, compliance, and reputational risk; ensure governance frameworks are practical, risk-based, and embedded into business and technology processes rather than operating as stand-alone controls; escalate material information risks and recommend appropriate mitigation, acceptance, or investment decisions to senior leadership.
• Partner with business leaders to identify high-value opportunities to improve decision-making, operational performance, customer/project outcomes, and organizational effectiveness through better use of information; set enterprise direction across data governance, information lifecycle management, metadata, master data, analytics, AI readiness, information protection, and related capabilities; champion common definitions, trusted information, scalable data practices, and fit-for-purpose access that improve enterprise consistency and usability; ensure solutions and standards balance immediate business needs with enterprise architecture, governance, security, sustainability, and long-term scalability; drive adoption of practical information management practices that increase the value, quality, accessibility, security, and usability of enterprise information.
• Build sustained alignment across Digital Operations, Information Services, Cybersecurity, Construction Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, and other business functions; chair or lead steering committees, governance forums