Hybrid AI Data Governance Lead

at INTELLIGEN

• Job title: AI Data Governance Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Informatica
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• AI Data Governance Lead at Intelligen, guiding clients on data governance and AI capabilities. Focused on enabling safe, scalable, and auditable AI through structured governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide data and AI governance frameworks, aligned to regulatory, ethical, and business requirements
• Define AI governance operating models, including decision rights, approval workflows, and accountability structures
• Establish governance foundations required to support agentic AI and autonomous systems, including runtime controls and policy enforcement**
• Enterprise AI
• Help design and provide structure, governance, and delivery discipline for scaled AI adoption
• Define enterprise-wide AI operating models, standards, and governance guardrails
• Enable the transition from experimentation to a governed AI workforce with visibility, control, and auditability**
• Policy, Risk & Compliance Integration
• Translate legal, regulatory, and risk requirements into clear, enforceable governance policies and controls
• Align with global standards such as NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and emerging AI regulations
• Ensure AI systems have defensible audit trails, clear accountability, and compliance alignment**
• Data Foundations for AI
• Define and uplift core data capabilities required for AI, including:
• Data quality and observability
• Metadata and lineage
• Access controls and security
• Data ownership and stewardship models**
• Runtime Governance & AI Control
• Support implementation of runtime governance mechanisms (e.g. policy enforcement and access control)
• Ensure safe, compliant AI execution in production environments **
• Stakeholder Leadership & Delivery
• Act as a trusted advisor to executives across data, risk, compliance, and technology
• Lead workshops, governance forums, and executive briefings
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment and delivery momentum
• Mentor and guide consultants across governance, data, and AI domains

Requirements

• 7+ years’ experience in data governance, AI governance, risk, or data consulting
• Proven experience leading governance programs across data and/or AI
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks and standards (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, NIST, ISO)
• Experience designing operating models, policies, standards, and stewardship frameworks
• Deep understanding of data foundations required for AI, including quality, lineage, metadata, and access control
• Experience working on or alongside AI/ML or advanced analytics initiatives
• Familiarity with AI governance challenges, including explainability, accountability, bias, and compliance
• Exposure to governance and metadata tools (e.g. Collibra, Alation, Informatica)
• Strong consulting capability , able to operate from boardroom to delivery team
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

Benefits

• We’re not just delivering AI and data projects.. we’re humanising them. That means we care deeply about the how, not just the what. We value curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. We look for people who are driven to build a business, get curious, and offer opinions and ideas.
• You’ll join a team that’s smart, kind, and ambitious. You’ll have real influence - in your projects, your practice, and the broader business. And as we grow, so will you.
• Here’s what that looks like:
• **Grow With Purpose**
• Structured development pathways so you always know what you’re working toward.
• Paid certifications across all major cloud and data technologies — because mastery matters
• Weekly training, guilds and knowledge exchanges where practitioners share real project insights.**
• **Support That Helps You Thrive**
• A dedicated support lead to mentor, guide and help you navigate your career
• Regular 360° feedback loops, giving you clear direction and honest insight into your progress.**
• **A Community You’ll Enjoy Being Part Of**
• Innovation days where you can experiment, prototype and sharpen new skills.
• Team days, social catchups, many new community clubs…
• Opportunities to lead, influence and shape our growing practice as we expand across the region.**
• If you want to be part of a team that cares just as much about *how* we deliver as *what* we deliver; where curiosity is valued, ideas matter, and your impact is felt - drop us a message and start the conversation today...