Data Strategy & Governance Manager

Strategy & Policy

K sh 180,000 – 320,000 gross / month

Openings: 1 Location: Nairobi – Ruai Town (Kangundo Rd corridor) Overview: Our client is looking for a Data Strategy & Governance Manager to set policies, stewardship, and architecture guardrails that make analytics trustworthy and compliant. You’ll define ownership, quality thresholds, and lineage while enabling teams to ship dashboards and ML features safely. Expect collaboration with Security, DPO, and Finance to align data to risk and value. Key Responsibilities: - Define data strategy; establish domains, owners, and stewardship. - Implement quality rules, lineage, and metadata; publish scorecards. - Maintain access, retention, and privacy controls with DPO/Security. - Run a Data Council and change process for definitions and KPIs. - Support analytical/ML use-cases with compliant pipelines. Education & Experience: - BIS/IT/Stats; 5–7 years data governance/architecture/analytics. Skills & Tools: - Catalogs/lineage tools, SQL, policy writing, facilitation. KPIs: - Data quality scores, issue aging, access audit pass, KPI definition adoption. Compensation (Kenya): KES 180,000–320,000 + annual bonus. Figures are estimates shared by our clients and vary with your experience, interview performance, certifications, and company pay bands. Benefits: - Medical, pension, training budget, 22–24 leave days. Growth Path: - Senior Data Gov → Head of Data & Analytics → Director, Data Strategy. Ideal hierarchy and expected promotion cycle.