Data Governance Lead

Evolution Mining Limited

About us
Evolution Mining was founded in late 2011 and has operations across Australia and in Ontario, Canada. We currently operate five wholly owned operations across NSW, QLD, WA and Canada with a leadership team that continually focuses on embedding a values driven culture aligned with our company vision to create a premier, global gold company.
Our Group operations are based in Liverpool St. (Sydney CBD) providing support across all sites in several key areas including IT, ensuring Evolution are positioned as a leader in effective optimisation of Information Technology.

About the role
We are currently recruiting a Data Governance Lead to join our team on a 12 month fixed term contract. As Data Governance lead, you will drive the development, implementation, and maintenance of a brand-new data governance strategy roadmap and program, to ensure the accuracy, completeness, security and consistency of our organisation's data.
This role will involve significant stakeholder engagement, defining requirements, programme managing the implementation of state-of-the-art data governance solutions, and promoting a high performing and collaborative environment.
You will lead and deliver a new data quality framework and implement data quality, security and privacy tools to automate data governance activities across the enterprise.

About you
To succeed in this role, you will have significant experience in leading teams and complex programmes of work in data governance, including quality, security and privacy, demonstrating strong familiarity with the latest technologies and tools.
You will be able to show evidence of tangible business benefits, improvement initiatives and outcomes that your work has delivered, such as significant financial impact/savings, large scale automation resulting in substantial time/cost savings in line with improving companies’ data quality, security and privacy standards.
Key is that you are comfortable in demonstrating experience of building relationships and being able to scope, build and deliver data governance products, policies, frameworks and plans and that you then implement these working across the organisation with data owners and champions. You are comfortable communicating, presenting, training/upskilling and continuously improving, able to translate complexity into user-friendly reporting.
This is very much a hands on data governance role where you will be independently leading a new and complex programme for this international mining company, with clear KPIs and incentive based on performance within a supportive, structured team. You must have experience in Microsoft Purview and other tools.

What we offer
Our Data and Analytics team is progressive and future focused, driving innovation within an organisation that is embracing a high-performing data team, utilising the latest tools, techniques and technologies in data and analytics. We are an outcome focussed team who lead projects that deliver real and large-scale value of the company that is tracked and visible.
It’s an exciting time to be part of the Data and Analytics team at Evolution as we also lead a complex data governance programme, develop state of the art, data lakehouse platform architectural framework, and further develop our data culture, change management and literacy programmes.
This role is offered on a permanent basis with a competitive salary, access to an incentive payment based on completion of project milestones, and a hybrid work environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to providing safe and inclusive work environments which allow our employees to be themselves. We support our employees' work-life integration and provide a stimulating environment to foster development and career growth.

Drive the development, implementation, and maintenance of a brand-new data governance strategy roadmap and program

Pogressive and future focused team, driving innovation embracing a high-performing data team, utilising the latest tools, techniques and technologies in data and analytics.