Enterprise Data and AI Governance Lead

With a large focus on data transformation Snowy Hydro is establishing an enterprise-wide data and AI governance program to uplift maturity and unlock improved business outcomes. We are seeking an Enterprise Data and AI Governance Lead to serve as our strategic lead and relationship manager. Operating under a hub-and-spoke model, you will lead development and enablement of better data and AI management practices across the organisation, collaborating with data stewards and owners from across business units to implement policies & procedures, guidelines, toolkits and training to build data and AI hygiene, and safely drive operational decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Framework & Strategy Architecture: Formulate and execute the enterprise strategy, framework and roadmap for Data Governance and AI Hygiene. Work with relevant teams to establish data and people capabilities and investment required to ensure AI readiness and deliver safe, secure and easy to find data.
• Data Policies and Procedures: Establish data standards and policies across data quality, classification, and lifecycle management ensuring compliance with regulations.
• AI Assurance & Risk Management: Establish comprehensive AI assurance processes, readiness assessments, ethical guardrails, and risk management toolkits to address model bias, data privacy, and safe business-led AI development.
• Relationship Management & Committee Leadership: Establish and manage an enterprise data committee to review and sponsor frameworks, acting as a partner to departmental data stewards to embed enterprise standards locally.
• Team Leadership & Tooling Operations: Build, mentor, and lead a specialised team while directing the establishment and operations of enterprise governance and lineage toolkits to enable data owners to monitor and manage data effectively.

About the location

This position can be based in Sydney or Melbourne.

About you

• Governance & AI Assurance Expertise: Proven experience designing and standing up data governance blueprints, policies and standards, data domain models and AI assurance guardrails within a complex enterprise environment.
• Enterprise-wide Experience: Strong experience in working across federated organisations to connect enterprise strategy with day to day operational decisions leveraging an enablement approach to data and AI governance activation.
• Relationship-Driven Leadership: Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a proven capability to co-design frameworks and data ownership models, influencing cultural change and shifting mindsets from central IT responsibility to federated data stewardship.
• Literacy & Change Advocacy: Ability to build enterprise-wide data literacy and cultivate a network of business-embedded AI champions.

About our workforce

Snowy Hydro has a culture of decency and inclusion, with a commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people and a supportive environment to ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can succeed. At Snowy Hydro, we recognise that we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each individual brings, and we believe in providing an environment that allows that uniqueness to thrive.

Snowy Hydro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for a role with Snowy Hydro and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an email with your request to the Snowy Hydro recruitment team at [email protected]