Director, Data Management & Governance

• Define and execute the enterprise data management and governance strategy aligned to business objectives and overall data/analytics senior leadership vision and strategy.
• Owns roadmap for strategic data management and governance.
• Build and lead a high-performing organization wide data stewardship community of practice that is domain embedded and has clear data ownership.
• Build and lead an efficient and effective enterprise data management team and function.
• Lead master data management strategy, delivery, and operations that also includes key enterprise reference data management.
• Lead building and scaling metadata management efforts along with implementing and maintaining our enterprise data catalog.
• Lead Data Management & Governance to operationalize policies as code (RBAC, masking, row-level security, audit logging).
• Designs and implements processes and systems for regulatory compliance (e.g. FERPA, GDPR, CCPA)
• Establish platform governance for security compliance.
• Drives design and implementation of scalable, resilient data pipelines for master data management workloads.
• Ensure observability, lineage, and quality frameworks are embedded in pipelines and orchestration.
• Lead cross functional efforts to improve data quality, focused around areas where data quality creates friction to a broader business initiative, driver, or efficiency outcome.
• Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement while leveraging AI to improve data management efficiency and effectiveness.
• Mentor the team and technical leads and develop succession plans.
• Owns budgeting and forecasting for the MDM and data catalog platforms along with vendor and partner management.
• Plans work and team capacity with the team, peer leaders, and data product owners/management.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

APEI offers a robust total rewards program with offerings that are meant to support your well-being, offer recognition opportunities and provide personal and career growth resources and support.

A reasonable estimate of the total compensation package for this is $150,000.00 to $180,000.00. We take a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including but not limited to: job and level hired into, location, skill set; experience and training; peer compensation and other business and organizational needs. This range is subject to change.

Pay is just one component of our total rewards package. We offer a choice of plans for Medical, Dental and Vision, a 401(K) retirement plan with employer matching, employer paid basic life insurance, AD&D, and numerous voluntary plan options. We also have a continuing education benefit available for full-time employees offering a 100% tuition reduction on courses taken within our family of brands*, a robust learning management system and individual development planning.  We are committed to supporting an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives.

*Some programs not available to residents of all states.  

Online, on campus and in the workplace, we provide higher education and training to our country’s heroes – military service members, veterans, nurses, government employees, and motivated professionals that want to make a difference. American Public Education, Inc. educates service-minded students, ranging from the military, public service, federal agencies, and nursing communities, through American Public University System (APUS), Hondros College of Nursing (HCON), and Rasmussen University.

It is the policy of American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) to afford equal opportunity to all qualified persons.  We treat all qualified individuals equally as to their recruitment, hiring, assignments, advancements, compensation, and all other terms and conditions of employment. American Public Education, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you are a resident of a state with designated pay transparency requirements and this role is available remotely, you may be eligible to receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request.  Please send an email to recruiting@apei.com.