The HR Data Governance & Automation function leads the strategy, governance, and management of People Data across the East Asia & Pacific and IMEA regions, covering 40+ countries and ~40,000 employees. The team ensures high-quality, secure, and well-governed data that enables business insights and supports operational and strategic decision-making.
What will you do:
- Defining and implementing the regional HR data strategy and roadmap
- Establishing strong data governance, controls, and quality assurance frameworks.
- Managing and automating data flows across HR systems, including the SQL Data Lake
- Delivering business intelligence and scalable reporting solutions
- Supporting analytics, insights, and data-driven transformation initiatives
- Building resilient, future ready People Data foundations across the enterprise, ensuring accuracy, security, and reliable insights at scale
The Specialist, People Data Governance plays a critical role in strengthening data governance, privacy, security, and quality across the People Data ecosystem. This role is essential for building future-ready data foundations across EAP + IMEA, supporting both operational stability and long-term transformation. The specialist will drive governance standards, maintain secure and well-controlled data environments, and support the evolution of platforms and reporting capabilities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
People Data Governance & Compliance
- Set and maintain People Data governance standards, policies, and controls.
- Drive awareness of governance, confidentiality, and data privacy requirements across the region.
- Oversee governance processes including HRIS access approvals, regional system security roles, and access reviews.
- Lead and maintain audit readiness, ensuring documentation, controls, and processes meet internal and external audit requirements.
- Identify data risks and lead remediation activities, process improvements, and redesign initiatives where required.
Data Security & Access Management
- Manage database and system security roles, ensuring appropriate levels of access and segregation of duties.
- Conduct regular access reviews to maintain audit ready security posture.
- Support enforcement of security protocols such as row level and column level security.
Database Management & Technical Operations
- Administer Microsoft SQL Server databases, including schemas, tables, stored procedures, functions, and ETL/SSIS processes.
- Maintain and optimise database performance through indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and tuning.
- Manage SQL Agent Jobs and ensure stability of automated workflows.
- Platform Enablement & Transition Support
- Support transitions to future HR platforms, data lakes, and reporting environments.
Platform Enablement & Transition Support
- Support transitions to future HR platforms, data lakes, and reporting environments.
- Partner with global and regional stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and global data strategy.
- Contribute to building scalable, future ready data ecosystems and reporting
What qualifications will make you successful?
- 3-5 years experience in data governance, HR data management, SQL database administration, or related data/analytics roles
- Strong T SQL expertise, including:
- Writing and maintaining stored procedures, functions, and queries
- Managing schemas, tables, indexing, and SQL Agent Jobs
- Designing and troubleshooting SSIS/ETL pipelines
- Experience in database performance optimisation (execution plans, indexing strategies)
- Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and data architecture concepts
- Security and access management expertise (e.g., row level and column level security)
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
- Ability to interpret compliance requirements and translate them into robust controls
- Strong stakeholder engagement and ability to influence practices across regions
- Analytical thinking with a continuous improvement mindset
- Curiosity and a passion for strengthening data foundations.
- Proactive mindset with the ability to identify risks or gaps before they escalate
What's in it for you:
- Opportunity to shape and influence HR technology solutions
- Work with cutting-edge HR systems and digital platforms
- Professional growth through exposure to diverse HR operations
- Collaborative environment with global reach and impact
- Chance to drive innovation in HR process automation and efficiency
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