Data Governance & Quality Lead (Hybrid)

We're seeking an experienced leader to join our team as a Data Governance & Quality Lead, responsible for leading a team of data governance professionals while driving the governance, metadata management, lineage, and data quality practices that ensure structured HR data is trusted, transparent, and fit for operational, analytical, regulatory, and AI-enabled use across the firm. In the Human Capital Management division, we provide advice and insight to attract, retain, reward and develop a talented global workforce, giving employees the support and tools they need to succeed. This is a Vice-President level position within HR Data & Intelligence, which helps the firm make better workforce decisions by turning data into trusted insight. The team delivers core data, reporting, and AI-enabled capabilities that support people operations and provide self-service access to workforce insights across HR and the business. Since 1935, Morgan Stanley has been a global leader in financial services, helping clients, institutions, and governments achieve their goals while supporting employees and communities around the world. What you'll do in the role:

• Lead and develop a team of four HR Data Governance professionals aligned to key HR data domains, setting priorities, establishing clear accountabilities, building capability, and ensuring consistent execution of governance and data quality practices.
• Own and maintain the enterprise HR data catalog, business glossary, metadata standards, and critical data element inventory, ensuring structured HR data assets are consistently defined, documented, and governed.
• Establish and maintain end-to-end data lineage documentation for priority HR data domains, improving transparency into data sourcing, transformation, consumption, and regulatory traceability requirements.
• Drive the Workday and Beqom Data Quality approach, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to identify, prioritize, monitor, and remediate data quality issues across the HR data landscape.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of the HR Data Quality operating framework, including governance processes, monitoring capabilities, controls, and issue management practices.
• Define, monitor, and report on data quality service level agreements and key performance indicators, ensuring risks, exceptions, and trends are escalated and addressed in a timely and transparent manner.
• Develop and maintain data intelligence reporting and governance scorecards that provide actionable visibility into data quality performance, metadata coverage, control effectiveness, remediation progress, and overall domain health.
• Partner with HR product, analytics, engineering, reporting, and control functions to embed governance requirements, metadata standards, and quality controls into system design, data pipelines, reporting solutions, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Promote continuous improvement across HR data management practices through the adoption of scalable governance processes, standardized controls, and transparent performance measurement. What you'll bring to the role:
• At least 6 years of relevant experience in data governance, data quality management, metadata management, master data management, or related data disciplines within a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience leading teams and delivering outcomes through effective prioritization, coaching, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional partnership.
• Experience implementing and operating data governance frameworks, metadata standards, business glossaries, enterprise data catalogs, and data lineage management practices.
• Knowledge of data quality management concepts, including controls, monitoring, issue management, root cause analysis, service level agreements, and remediation processes.
• Demonstrated ability to establish transparency around complex data processes and controls through effective reporting, metrics, and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to translate technical data management concepts into practical guidance and actionable recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of HR data structures, workforce processes, and the controls required to support reliable reporting, analytics, operational processes, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience partnering across business, technology, risk, and control functions to drive alignment on standards, ownership, controls, and governance practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience leveraging reporting and performance measures to assess data health, communicate risk, and drive continuous improvement. All our positions are located in Montreal, Quebec. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office. Knowledge of French and English is required.

What You Can Expect from Morgan

STANLEY: At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values

• putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back
• aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work. To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste into your browser. Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents. Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences. For more information, please visit: . Responsable de la gouvernance et de la qualité des données (hybride)Nous recherchons une personne pour se joindre à notre équipe à titre de responsable de la gouvernance et de la qualité des données afin de diriger les capacités de gouvernance et de qualité des données qui renforcent la fiabilité, la transparence et l’exploitabilité des données sur les effectifs à des fins opérationnelles, analytiques, réglementaires et liées à l’IA dans l’ensemble de la Société. Au sein de la division Gestion du capital humain, nous fournissons des conseils et des renseignements qui permettent d’attirer, de fidéliser, de récompenser et de développer une main-d’œuvre mondiale talentueuse, tout en offrant au personnel le soutien et les outils nécessaires à sa réussite. Ce poste de niveau vice-président(e) relève de l’équipe Données et intelligence RH, qui aide la Société à prendre de meilleures décisions concernant sa main-d’œuvre en transformant les données en renseignements fiables. L’équipe fournit les données fondamentales, les capacités de production de rapports et les solutions fondées sur l’IA qui soutiennent les activités RH et donnent aux équipes des RH et de l’entreprise un accès libre-service aux renseignements sur les effectifs. Depuis 1935, Morgan Stanley e