Sr. Manager, Data Management - In CO

About The Doyle Group

The Doyle Group is a proven IT staffing and consulting partner headquartered in Denver, CO. With over 30 years of combined industry experience, we forge genuine partnerships with clients seeking strategic talent solutions and connect skilled IT professionals with meaningful career opportunities — across contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire engagements.

Role Overview

The Doyle Group is partnering with a client to identify a Sr. Manager, Data Management to lead their enterprise data function — spanning Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, and Data Governance. This is a people-leadership and policy-layer role reporting to the Director of Global Data Services, with four direct reports overseeing MDM Operations (SAP S/4HANA & JD Edwards), Data Quality, and the Data Governance COE.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Governance COE
• Define and operate the enterprise data stewardship and ownership model
• Maintain the business glossary, enterprise data definitions, and ownership registry
• Run governance forums, decision rights frameworks, and escalation paths
• Own business metadata completeness in Microsoft Purview / Unity Catalog
• Own data classification taxonomy and RBAC access policy design
• Serve as the policy interface to enterprise InfoSec for compliance and audit readiness
• Master Data Operations & Data Quality
• Oversee MDM workflows across SAP S/4HANA and JD Edwards
• Define enterprise DQ rules and acceptance criteria for analytics products
• Own MDM SLAs as measurable commitments — not aspirational targets
• Produce DQ scorecards and trend reporting for the CDO and business data owners
• Drive reduction of downstream rework caused by MDM defects
• Manage MDM release cycles, change control, and ERP alignment

Qualifications

Required

• 8 years in data management, governance, or MDM in enterprise environments
• Data classification and RBAC access policy design experience
• 3 years leading teams with accountability for governance, quality, or MDM outcomes
• Experience with Microsoft Purview, Unity Catalog, or equivalent catalog platforms
• Enterprise-scale data governance framework experience (stewardship, registries, forums)
• Strong stakeholder management — able to drive accountability without direct authority
• SAP S/4HANA MDM experience strongly preferred; JD Edwards a differentiator
• Bachelor’s degree required; Information Systems, Computer Science, or related preferred

Preferred

Master’s degree or MBA with hands-on data management delivery experience

Finance, Supply Chain, or Commercial data domain experience at enterprise scale

Manufacturing or industrial sector MDM experience

Background in a product-based or federated CDO operating model

DMBOK or CDMP certification

Familiarity with DQ tooling and scorecard development

Position Details

Employment Type Full-Time / Direct Hire

Location United States (10% travel required)

Sponsorship Not available for this role

Direct Reports 4 Managers: MDM Ops ×2, Data Quality, Data Governance COE

Reports To Director, Global Data Services