Data Governance Specialist

About us

Digital Foundations serves as a cornerstone in enabling the organization’s digital ecosystem by establishing and maintaining the core capabilities that underpin secure, efficient, and scalable operations across all business domains. It delivers a robust and compliant technology backbone that empowers innovation and agility without compromising security, operational integrity, or regulatory compliance. Through the standardization and future-proofing of technology foundations, including data governance, information security, system integration, enterprise platforms, advanced analytics, and modern workplace solutions, Digital Foundations ensures resilience and consistency across the organization.

Job Summary

As Data Governance Specialist, you will play a key role in establishing and maturing enterprise-wide data governance practices. You ensure that data across the organization is trustworthy, well defined, compliant, and usable.
You develop and operationalize data governance frameworks, enable data ownership structures, and support data quality, metadata management, and compliance initiatives. Your work strengthens our data foundation and enables the business to make reliable, data driven decisions.

Job Responsibilities

• Establish and develop data governance frameworks, processes, and standards
• Drive the implementation of data ownership and data stewardship across domains
• Maintain and improve structures for data classification, metadata management, data cataloguing and data pipelining
• Support and advance the use of data governance tools
• Enable GDPR, regulatory compliance, and alignment with internal security and cyber requirements
• Collaborate with IT, Cyber, Enterprise Architecture, and business stakeholders on data quality and lifecycle management
• Provide education and communication that strengthen data literacy and shared understanding
• Track progress, risks, and maturity of data governance initiatives and propose improvements

Qualifications & Personal skills

You communicate clearly and bring structure to complexity. You balance governance with pragmatism and help others understand the value of good data practices. You build trust through openness, consistency, and an enterprise wide perspective. You enjoy enabling teams to use data in a safe, compliant, and value creating way.


Requirements:
• Experience in Data Governance, information management, or data quality work
• Understanding of metadata, data models, data catalogues, and data lifecycle management
• Experience with data governance tools (Microsoft Purview is a plus)
• Ability to translate complex data concepts into clear guidance
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Organized, analytical, and able to work independently when needed


Desirable:
• Experience within aerospace, defence, or similarly regulated industries
• Knowledge of information security frameworks (e.g. ISO 27000, NIST, NIS2)
• Understanding of data architecture, BI/analytics platforms, or integration landscapes

Application

This position is based in Trollhättan, Sweden, as such, the applicant should be able to gain the right to live and work in Sweden. Travel to other locations within the global GKN Aerospace group is expected.

The selection process takes place continuously. The position may therefore be filled before the application deadline. Therefore, do not wait with your application!

Last date for application: 2026-05-01

For more information, please contact hiring manager:
Peter Isaksson, CoE/Business Systems Manager, 
peter.isaksson@gknaerospace.com

As part of our recruitment strategy at GKN, we have predetermined our recruitment and marketing channels. Therefore, we kindly request no contact from recruitment agencies, media sales, or similar entities.
The position requires that you undergo and be approved according to the current regulations for security protection. For positions where GKN's customer has requirements for security classification, this may, in some cases, involve specific citizenship requirements.