At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.
Senior Data Governance Specialist
As Senior Data Governance Specialist, you will be a part of Bayers Pharma Data & AI Team. You will own and evolve the enterprise data catalog and governance operating model for Bayer’s Pharma Commercial Data Platform, enabling trusted, well-documented, and discoverable data products across domains. You will drive metadata, lineage, and policy automation jointly with other members of the data excellence chapter to scale data mesh practices and increase adoption.
At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where ,Health for all, Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.
Senior Data Governance Specialist
As Senior Data Governance Specialist, you will be a part of Bayers Pharma Data & AI Team. You will own and evolve the enterprise data catalog and governance operating model for Bayer’s Pharma Commercial Data Platform, enabling trusted, well-documented, and discoverable data products across domains. You will drive metadata, lineage, and policy automation jointly with other members of the data excellence chapter to scale data mesh practices and increase adoption.
,[Own the data catalog operating model (e.g. domains, communities, roles, workflows in Collibra) and ensure consistent metadata, glossary, and policy management across data products., Define and enforce cataloging standards for datasets, pipelines, metrics, lineage, classifications, and access policies, aligned to data mesh principles., Integrate the catalog with key platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Dagster) to automate lineage, technical metadata harvest, and status synchronization., Partner with security teams to align access models and catalog policies with OpenID Connect (Microsoft Entra ID) and AWS Cognito-backed authorization schemes., Collaborate with the data quality & metadata lead to implement and enhance metadata quality KPIs (e.g.completeness, freshness, lineage coverage) and drive remediation programs to improve trust and discoverability., Curate high-value semantic assets (business glossary, KPIs, certified datasets) and ensure consistency between semantic layers (e.g., BI models) and catalog., Govern sensitive data classification/tagging, retention, and usage policies; align with secrets management practices (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) and audit needs., Provide enablement (e.g. training, playbooks, office hours) and measure catalog adoption and satisfaction, driving continuous improvement based on feedback and usage analytics., Collaborate with data product, engineering, analytics, and compliance teams to resolve governance gaps and scale best practices., Stay current with technology trends by evaluating new solutions through proofs of concept and collaborating across teams (e.g to assess open source catalog options or to define data fabric needs). Requirements: Collibra, Snowflake, Databricks, dbt Tools: GitHub, Agile. Additionally: Sport subscription, Training budget, Private healthcare, Flat structure, Lunch card, International projects, Free coffee, Canteen, Bike parking, Playroom, In-house trainings, In-house hack days, Startup atmosphere, No dress code.