Senior Assistant Director, Data Management, CIO Office Full-time

Senior Assistant Director, Data Management, CIO Office

A*STAR ITSS (IT Shared Services) is seeking a technically strong and forward-looking data management professional to design, operationalise and implement A*STAR's enterprise data management framework and technologies. This role drives consistent, secure and high-quality data practices across corporate and research domains and leads the adoption of modern data protection and governance technologies, including AI-enabled and automated approaches, to uplift IT governance and organizational operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Governance
• Contribute to the development, rollout and continual enhancement of A*STAR's enterprise data management framework, covering strategies, policies, standards and procedures.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory, legal and ethical requirements, including privacy, security, and government Instruction Manual (IM) obligations.
• Engage corporate groups, RIs and data domain owners to drive consistent adoption of governance practices and gather feedback on data management framework and technologies.
• Data Technologies
• Work closely with product teams in IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Data Protection Officers across A*STAR to implement data protection, data governance and data quality tools, taking a business-centric and risk-based perspective.
• Lead the adoption of AI, analytics and automation specifically for data management, including data discovery, classification, quality assurance, lifecycle management, and metadata management.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to strengthen A*STAR's overall digital assurance and IT governance posture.
• Data Architecture
• Participate in the development and maintenance of A*STAR's enterprise data architecture.
• Provide advisory to A*STAR entities to ensure IT system designs are aligned with enterprise data architecture principles and the data management framework.
• Work with data domain owners to maintain enterprise-wide data dictionaries, data inventories and data catalogues, including assigned data classification levels, to strengthen interoperability, consistency and governance across A*STAR.
• Contribute to the definition of metadata standards, data lineage models, and architecture alignment across systems and platform.
• Contribute to data modelling, metadata standards, lineage tracking and architectural alignment across projects and platforms.
• Digital Governance (Beyond Data)
• Contribute to policy-policy and policy-operations integration efforts to streamline digital policies across data, cybersecurity, IT and AI domains.

Key Competencies Requirements

• Minimum 7 years' experience in data management and data architecture, with proven experience implementing enterprise frameworks and technical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to translate business requirements into practical governance controls and technical implementations.
• Experience implementing or operationalising data governance frameworks in a large organization.
• Strong understanding of modern data technologies (data catalogues, metadata management, DLP, AI-driven automation, lineage, etc.) and enterprise data architecture concepts.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, strong analytical ability, and meticulous attention to detail.