Job Description

AltaGas - Sr. Specialist, AI & Data Governance

AltaGas is strengthening how we govern, manage, and improve enterprise data as we scale data products, analytics, automation, and AI. We’re looking for a Senior Specialist, AI & Data Governance to help make our data trusted, measurable, and ready for business use.

This is a hands-on, business-facing role for someone who can turn governance principles into practical ways of working, build strong partnerships across business and technical teams, and establish the trusted data foundations needed for analytics and responsible AI.

You will:

• Own the day-to-day operation of our data governance and data quality practices, ensuring clear ownership, stewardship, standards, decision-making, and accountability across the business.
• Lead governance councils and working groups, coordinating decisions, actions, escalations, and progress.
• Onboard and support data owners and data stewards, helping establish clear responsibilities, decision rights, and ways of working.
• Partner with business and technical teams to identify critical data elements, define quality expectations, and translate business requirements into measurable data quality rules and controls.
• Develop dashboards and scorecards that provide visibility into data quality, trends, issues, ownership, remediation, and business impact.
• Support Master Data Management (MDM) by defining ownership, approvals, escalation paths, quality expectations, and remediation processes across priority data domains.
• Embed governance and data quality requirements into data products, dashboards, reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Coordinate data quality issues from identification through remediation, helping teams address root causes and create sustainable solutions.
• Support AI governance and Responsible AI, coordinating assessments and documenting ownership, data dependencies, risks, controls, human oversight, and key decisions.
• Partner across business, Digital, security, privacy, legal, risk, architecture, data, and delivery teams to ensure AI use cases align with established guardrails.
• Maintain governance documentation and provide clear dashboards, updates, and executive-ready summaries on progress, risks, decisions, and business value.

You have:

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.
• 4–5+ years of hands-on experience in data governance, data quality, data management, analytics governance, or a related discipline.
• Practical experience implementing data governance and data quality frameworks, including governance forums, stewardship, ownership, and issue management.
• Strong knowledge of critical data elements, data definitions, business glossaries, data quality rules and dimensions, remediation workflows, and Master Data Management.
• Experience developing or supporting data quality dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, or reporting for business and leadership audiences.
• An understanding of how trusted and governed data supports analytics, automation, and AI.
• Working knowledge of AI governance and Responsible AI principles, including accountability, risk assessment, human oversight, transparency, and controls.
• The ability to translate technical data concepts into clear business language and influence stakeholders without formal authority.
• Strong communication, organization, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Why AltaGas

You’ll have the opportunity to shape how data and AI governance are put into practice across AltaGas. Working across business and technical teams, you’ll help build trusted data foundations that support better analytics, automation, data products, and responsible AI.

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