Data Governance Lead - Organization, Position, Workplace and Access Compliance

Organization, Position, Workplace and Access Compliance Data Lead

Job Title: Organization, Position, Workplace and Access Compliance Data Lead 

Job Location: Hyderabad Hub

Job Type: Fulltime/Permanent

About the Job

Are you a Workday Position Management expert with a passion for data governance and organizational data excellence? Join Sanofi's People Services Data Governance and Master Data Management Team as the Organization, Positions, Workplace and Access Compliance Data Lead — the dedicated data governance and MDM authority for Position and Workplace data in Workday, the security and compliance model governing that data, and the enablement of a robust position data model in Sanofi's Snowflake data foundation.

In this role, you will be the data governance and MDM centre of expertise for how positions and workplaces are defined, standardized, maintained, and leveraged across Sanofi globally — with a particular focus on enabling strategic workforce planning through accurate, reliable, and AI-ready position data. You will partner closely with Global Process Owners (GPOs) who serve as the business data owners, alongside Strategic Workforce Planning teams, HR Transformation, Finance, Technology Strategy, and Data Analytics teams — contributing the data perspective to ensure that position and workplace data is accurate, compliant, AI-ready, and fit for purpose — including through complex organizational events such as mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities

1. Position, Organization & Workplace Master Data Governance

• Contribute the data governance and MDM perspective for Position, Organization and Workplace master data in Workday — including standards for position creation, maintenance, inactivation, and lifecycle management

• Partner with Global Process Owners (GPOs) — the business data owners in this model — to define and enforce global data standards, taxonomies, and canonical models for position and workplace data entities

• Establish and maintain the authoritative data model for positions and workplaces, ensuring consistency, completeness, and accuracy across all Workday tenants

• Govern all position data attributes — including position type, job profile alignment, FTE, location, cost center, supervisory organization, and management hierarchy — from a data standards and quality perspective

• Manage workplace master data governance including site definitions, location hierarchies, and workplace classifications. This includes collaboration with Digital Team on design and implementation of integration for the relevant master data

• Ensure all position and workplace data changes are governed through a structured, auditable, and compliant change management process

• Oversee data ownership processes and accountability frameworks, enabling Global Process Owners to fulfil their data responsibilities effectively

2. Strategic Workforce Planning Enablement

• Lead the data governance contribution to strategic workforce planning by ensuring position and workplace data is accurate, complete, and structured to support workforce planning analytics, forecasting, and decision-making

• Partner with Strategic Workforce Planning teams to understand planning requirements and analytical needs — translating these into data governance, data quality, and data model requirements

• Ensure position data integrity and consistency across all dimensions critical to workforce planning — including FTE, position type, organizational hierarchy, cost center, location, and job profile alignment

• Govern position lifecycle data to enable accurate headcount tracking, forecasting, and scenario modeling

• Ensure organizational hierarchy and supervisory organization data is maintained to the highest standards, as these are foundational to workforce planning analytics

• Drive data quality initiatives specifically focused on position data dimensions used in workforce planning models and analytics

• Enable position data traceability and auditability to support workforce planning governance and decision documentation

3. Workday Security Model & Compliance

• Govern the data security model as it relates to position and workplace data in Workday — defining and maintaining standards for who can view, create, edit, and approve position and workplace records

• Define and maintain data access policies and security classifications for position and workplace data domains

• Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations (GDPR and others) in the context of position and workplace data, working closely with the Global Data Privacy Officer

• Manage and maintain data sharing agreements and protocols for position and workplace data shared across systems and geographies

• Conduct regular security and compliance reviews of position and workplace data access and usage

• Identify and escalate compliance risks related to position data exposure, unauthorized changes, or policy breaches

• Ensure local Workday configurations comply with global data security and governance standards

4. Snowflake Data Foundation Enablement

• Lead the data governance contribution to the design and enablement of a strong position data model in Sanofi's Snowflake data foundation, ensuring position and workplace data is accurately represented, structured, and accessible for downstream consumption

• Define data sharing protocols and pipelines from Workday to Snowflake for position and workplace domains

• Ensure data quality, completeness, and structural integrity of position and workplace data flowing into the data foundation

• Partner with Technology Strategy, Data Engineering, and Data Analytics teams to ensure the position data model in Snowflake supports strategic workforce planning, business intelligence, organizational design analytics, and AI use cases

• Govern data lineage and traceability from Workday source to Snowflake consumption layers

5. Organizational Design & Strategic Initiatives Support

• Contribute the data governance perspective to organizational design initiatives by ensuring position structures, hierarchies, and attributes are correctly modeled, governed, and maintained in Workday

• Partner with Global Process Owners, Strategic Workforce Planning teams, P&C, and Finance to ensure position data enables headcount planning, budgeting, organizational design scenarios, and strategic decision-making

• Support the implementation and ongoing governance of Org View and Position Management capabilities in Workday, contributing data standards and MDM expertise

6. Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

• Contribute position and workplace data governance expertise during M&A and divestiture events, ensuring seamless data integration, migration, and separation from a data standards and quality perspective

• Define data requirements, mapping, and migration strategies for onboarding new legal entities and offboarding divested businesses

• Ensure position and workplace data integrity throughout organizational restructuring, legal entity changes, and business unit transformations

• Partner with M&A, Legal, HR Transformation, Global Process Owners, Strategic Workforce Planning teams, and Technology Strategy as the position and workplace data governance SME for all transition activities

7. AI Enablement & Data Quality

• Drive data quality and AI readiness strategies for position and workplace data, ensuring data is structured and reliable for AI and advanced analytics consumption

• Lead root cause investigation of data quality issues in Workday position and workplace data — not just detection, but structural resolution

• Automate data validation and anomaly detection for position and workplace data where possible

• Lead AI strategy for knowledge content related to position and workplace data to enable AI initiatives via ServiceNow

• Monitor adoption of global data standards and detect re-introduction of local deviations

8. Team Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Lead and manage a team of:

• Data Classification, Standards & Definitions Partner — responsible for translating governance decisions into usable data assets, maintaining the data catalog, glossary, lineage, and definitions for position and workplace domains

• Position Data Quality & AI Readiness Analyst — responsible for data quality monitoring, root cause analysis, remediation, and AI readiness for position and workplace data

•Access Governance and Compliance Expert – responsible for compliant data sharing in Workday and guarding security model

•Organization Master Data Management Expert- supporting organization and position management data activities

• Provide functional expertise, coaching, and professional development to team members

• Serve as the primary data governance point of contact for any technology or process initiative where position and workplace data decisions are required

• Lead stakeholder management across Global Process Owners, Strategic Workforce Planning teams, HR, Finance, Technology Strategy, Data Analytics teams, IT, and Legal

• Train and support Local Data Champions on position and workplace data standards and governance

Key Relationships

Direct Reports

Data Classification, Standards & Definitions Partner; Position Data Quality & AI Readiness Analyst; Access Governance and Compliance Expert; Organization Master Data Management Expert ​

Key Stakeholders

Global Process Owners (GPOs) — business data owners; Strategic Workforce Planning teams; HR Transformation; Finance; Technology Strategy; Data Analytics teams; IT; Legal; Global Data Privacy Officer; Local Data Champions

About You

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in data stewardship, master data management, or data governance roles in enterprise environments

• Deep, hands-on expertise in Workday Position Management — including position lifecycle, supervisory organizations, job profiles, FTE management, and organizational hierarchies — this is a non-negotiable core requirement

• Strong understanding of strategic workforce planning concepts, processes, and data requirements — including headcount forecasting, organizational design scenarios, and resource planning

• Strong understanding of the Workday security model — including security groups, domain policies, business process security, and data access governance

• Experience with Workday workplace and location data management

• Experience enabling or consuming HR data in Snowflake or equivalent data foundation platforms

• Demonstrated success in team leadership and people management

• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures from a data governance and integration perspective

• Experience working with Global Process Owners and Technology Strategy teams in a data governance capacity

• Experience partnering with workforce planning or analytics teams on data requirements and data modeling

• Ability to work effectively in a partnering model — contributing data expertise while respecting business ownership and decision rights held by Global Process Owners

Technical Skills

• Workday Certification strongly preferred, particularly in HCM Core — Position Management expertise is essential

• Informatica Cloud Data Governance Catalog or similar data catalog platforms

• Snowflake Data Foundation — data modeling, data sharing, and consumption layer design

• GDPR and data privacy compliance in the context of HR and workforce data

• Data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated validation approaches

Education

• Degree in Information Science, Data Management, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field

Core Competencies

• Analytical thinking and problem-solving

• Project management and prioritization

• Communication and stakeholder management

• Partnering and collaboration across global, cross-functional teams

• Data governance and MDM expertise

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Progress doesn't happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let's pursue progress. And let's discover extraordinary together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Experience Level

Senior Level