Data & AI Governance Lead

CECO Environmental Corporation

Data & AI Governance Lead role managing CECO’s data governance framework and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. Engaging business stakeholders and driving KPI standardization across decentralized structure.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeAddison • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPPMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

This role requires equal strength as a governance practitioner, a program manager, a change leader, and a business partner.
The individual must earn authority through credibility and demonstrated value, operating across a decentralized, multi-SBG structure without direct reporting lines into the domains they govern.
Chair and facilitate the L3 Data & AI Governance Working Group, including bi-weekly full-group sessions and coordination of seven independent domain governance meetings across Finance, Sales, Operations, Procurement, Project Management, Product Engineering, and HR.
Own and maintain the enterprise KPI registry — ensuring every metric has a single definition, data source, owner, and target applied consistently across all SBGs.
Collaborate with domain stewards, providing direction, accountability, documentation standards, and escalation support.
Ensure domain-level consensus before any recommendation reaches the L2 Governance Committee.
Produce the monthly governance compliance scorecard and present it to the L2 Governance Committee as the operational voice of the Working Group.
Serve as the primary triage point for all governance escalations, resolving disputes at the lowest possible level before they reach the L2 Committee.
Maintain master data standards across Customer, Vendor, Product/Item, Project, and Employee/Workforce domains, coordinating with domain stewards and the Data Platform team on golden record workflows and CRM–ERP alignment.
Manage governance activation as a structured program: define milestones, track progress, identify risks and dependencies, and report status to L2 monthly and L1 quarterly.
Develop and maintain the governance calendar, meeting cadences, agenda templates, escalation protocols, RACI documentation, and decision logs for the Working Group.
Build and maintain a governance maturity roadmap, with measurable milestones from framework activation through to embedded enterprise practice.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Finance, Operations Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience in data governance, data management, enterprise analytics, or a related function — with at least 3 years in a dedicated Data Governance Lead, Data Stewardship Lead, or equivalent operational governance role.
Must demonstrate fluency with operational metrics (OTD, project margin, procurement spend variance, SQDC) as well as financial KPIs (revenue recognition, gross margin, EBITDA).
Demonstrated program management experience: structured delivery of multi-workstream, multi-stakeholder programs with formal milestone tracking, risk management, and executive-level reporting.
PMP or equivalent certification preferred.
Demonstrated change management experience.
Experience designing and executing change plans in organizations with strong business unit autonomy and uneven stakeholder readiness.
Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise data governance platforms: Microsoft Purview (preferred given CECO’s Microsoft stack), Collibra, or Alation.
Experience with data catalog, business glossary, stewardship workflow, and policy management capabilities.
Demonstrated experience operating in complex, multi-stakeholder organizations where influence without positional authority was the primary lever for driving change across business units or divisions.
Experience designing or implementing enterprise KPI registries, data governance operating models, or master data management programs at scale.
Familiarity with D365 F&O, TM1, or equivalent ERP and financial planning system particularly in the context of migration governance and data quality management.
Experience working alongside data platform or data engineering teams to translate governance standards into technical implementation within a medallion or layered data architecture.
Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and modern data platform concepts preferred.
Experience facilitating structured governance bodies, cross-functional alignment sessions, or COE operating models preferred.
Experience authoring, publishing, and maintaining enterprise data governance or AI governance policies preferred.
Familiarity with policy lifecycle management, regulatory alignment (data privacy, AI regulation), and enforcement monitoring through compliance scorecards.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We provide a variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage
Employee 401(k)
tuition reimbursement

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Hard Skills & Tools

data governancedata managemententerprise analyticsoperational metricsfinancial KPIsprogram managementchange managementmaster data managementKPI registry designdata quality management

Soft Skills

influence without authoritystakeholder managementcross-functional alignmentcommunicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingdocumentation standardsrisk managementmilestone tracking

Certifications

PMP