VP, Data Governance Lead (Data Stewardship), Technology Group

GIC is one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. With over 2,000 employees across 11 offices around the world, we invest in more than 40 countries globally across asset classes and businesses. Working at GIC gives you exposure to an extraordinary network of the world’s industry leaders. As a leading global long-term investor, we Work at the Point of Impact for Singapore’s financial future, and the communities we invest in worldwide.

Enterprise and Data Technology
Enterprise & Data Technology builds and advances the technology that underpins our enterprise and data capabilities. It brings together our core technology and data experts to design and deliver platforms for integration, analytics, and innovation. By combining these strengths into one coordinated group, we create seamless solutions that connect systems, improve data accessibility, and leverage AI at the platform level to enable smarter decision-making. Through modern, scalable, and secure technology, the team empowers the organisation with tools that drive insight, collaboration, and operational excellence.

What impact can you make in this role?
The Data Stewardship Lead will play a key role in driving GIC’s enterprise data governance and management initiatives, focusing on unstructured data assets. This role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, business understanding, and leadership to design, implement, and maintain scalable data stewardship processes that ensure data quality, compliance, and usability across the organization.

What will you do as a VP, Data Governance Lead (Data Stewardship)?

• Data Classification: Support the development and application of classification standards for unstructured data, ensuring consistency across business lines.  

• Data Annotation & Labelling: Lead efforts to analyse, identify, and label unstructured data samples accurately, improving recall rates and supporting machine learning and AI initiatives.  

• Roadmap Development for Unstructured Data Labelling: Develop and drive a strategic roadmap to progressively label, tag, and classify all unstructured data across the firm, ensuring systematic coverage, prioritization, and alignment with enterprise data governance objectives.  

• Collaboration with Cybersecurity & AI Teams: Partner with cybersecurity engineering and AI teams to enhance algorithm recognition, analyse misclassified data, and contribute to model improvement discussions.  

• Process Optimization & Platform Enhancement: Continuously refine data annotation operations, optimize label sampling and review mechanisms, and contribute to functional design improvements for the annotation platform.  

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with business end-users, data vendors, data engineers, and other stakeholders to implement and support data solutions using best practices and technologies.  

• Enterprise Data Management for Unstructured Data: Perform end-to-end data management duties for unstructured data as an enterprise function, including data registration, classification, tagging, quality assurance, and lifecycle management. Ensure all processes align with GIC’s data governance standards and enterprise data architecture principles.  

• Stakeholder & Team Leadership: Engage with business data owners, data stewards, and central data management teams to support current and future data needs. Coach and guide junior team members to build data stewardship capabilities.  

What qualifications or skills should you possess in this role?  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.  
• 7–10 years of experience in data governance or management, with a focus on unstructured data and enterprise-scale initiatives.  
• Proven expertise in data classification, taxonomy development, and labelling, including collaboration with AI/ML and cybersecurity teams.  
• Strong understanding of data architecture principles, data lifecycle management, and data quality frameworks.  
• Hands-on experience with data annotation tools and familiarity with AI/ML workflows. 
• Skilled in stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, and translating technical concepts into business outcomes.  
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, mentor staff, and drive process optimization and platform enhancements. 
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and a focus on data accuracy.

Preferred Attributes:

• Experience working in financial or investment organizations with complex data ecosystems.
• Passion for advancing data governance maturity and enabling data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

Work at the Point of Impact
We need to be forward-looking to attract the right people to help us become the Leading Global Long-term Investor. Join our ambitious, agile, and diverse teams - be empowered to push boundaries and pursue innovative ideas, share your views, and be heard. Be anchored on our PRIME Values: Prudence, Respect, Integrity, Merit and Excellence, which guides us in how we make our day-to-day decisions. We strive to inspire. To make an impact.     

Flexibility at GIC
At GIC, our offices are vibrant hubs for ideation, professional growth, and interpersonal connection.  At the same time, we believe that flexibility allows us to do our best work and be our best selves.  Thus, our teams come into the office four days per week to harness the benefits of in-person collaboration, but have the flexibility to choose which days they work from home and adjust this arrangement as situational needs arise.

GIC is an equal opportunity employer 
GIC is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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Learn more about our Technology Group here: 
https://gic.careers/group/technology-group/