Associate Vice President, Data Governance Greater Mumbai, India Area

The Company is seeking an Associate Vice President of Data Governance to lead data quality, regulatory compliance, and analytics governance across credit data operations. Responsibilities include overseeing data ingestion pipelines, maintaining data quality standards and critical data element registers, and establishing data lineage from ingestion through downstream reporting and models. The role will align governance policies with regulatory requirements, oversee dispute-resolution processes, and lead root-cause analysis to address data and algorithm issues. The successful candidate will also coordinate data remediation with member institutions, conduct anomaly audits, and deliver trend reporting and risk insights to senior stakeholders and board committees. Candidates should have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in data analytics, computer science, statistics, finance, or a related quantitative field, along with at least 15 years of relevant experience in data governance, data quality, or business intelligence within a credit bureau, financial institution, or fintech. Deep knowledge of Indian credit reporting standards and regulations, entity resolution, matching algorithms, and data lineage is required. Technical qualifications include proficiency in SQL and SAS or Python, database architecture, ETL frameworks, and statistical sampling. Strong cross-functional leadership and executive presentation skills are essential; experience with a large bank, non-bank financial company, or credit institution is an advantage.

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Equifax