Data Strategy & Governance Manager

Strategy & Policy

K sh 180,000 – 320,000 gross / month

Openings: 1 Location: Nairobi – Ruai Town (Kangundo Rd corridor) Overview: Data is only as powerful as the trust you can place in it. In this role, you’ll craft the guardrails, policies, and stewardship processes that make analytics reliable, auditable, and compliant. Expect to translate messy datasets into usable, decision-ready insights while protecting the organization from risk. Our client wants someone who can bridge the technical and business worlds. You’ll define data domains, ownership, and quality thresholds, implement lineage and metadata practices, and ensure pipelines feeding dashboards and ML models meet governance standards. It’s hands-on and strategic in equal measure. Collaboration is key. You’ll work closely with Security, the DPO, and Finance to embed privacy, retention, and access controls, while enabling teams to move fast without compromising integrity. Running the Data Council and facilitating KPI definition adoption will make you the go-to person for all things data governance. Think of this as more than policy writing: it’s shaping the way the company treats its most valuable asset. You’ll quantify quality, enforce standards, and empower analytics teams to innovate responsibly, making data not just accessible but trustworthy, actionable, and strategically aligned. 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.