AI Data Governance & Strategy Lead

Operating within a high-velocity landscape of grand-scale transformation and continuous shifts, you must excel at anchoring fluid environments through agile data structures and dynamic metrics. As the AI Data Governance & Strategy Lead, you own the AI scorecard - translating AI strategy into measurable business value across all sectors and the four dimensions of success. You are accountable for unified AI data governance and strategy across Comarch, ensuring the data foundations, metrics and ethics that let AI scale reliably are in place and consistently applied across a rapidly changing organization.

You operate at the intersection of data, strategy and value measurement. You run the AI scorecard on a monthly and quarterly cadence, link it to MBOs, run the annual AI maturity diagnosis, and track ROI per sector against Hub running cost within a volatile market reality. You own cross-sector data integration, metadata management, data ethics and the AI data tooling that underpins them, working closely with sector Heads of AI/CTOs, Product, R&D, Security/Compliance and the Chief AI Officer to ensure AI investment compounds into measurable, structural advantage despite constant change.

Candidate Profile

• 10+ years in data governance, data strategy, analytics or data engineering leadership roles, including enterprise-scale data programs
• Demonstrated track record of building data governance frameworks - metadata, lineage, quality and ethics - adopted across an organization
• Strong fluency in modern AI and data: LLMs and generative AI, ML workflows, data platforms, and the metrics used to evaluate AI value and maturity
• Proven ability to translate strategy into measurable business value: defining scorecards, KPIs and ROI models that leadership trusts
• Experience running maturity assessments or diagnostic frameworks (e.g., McKinsey-style) and turning them into actionable improvement plans
• Hands-on experience selecting and implementing data tooling across multiple teams
• Active awareness of the fast-moving AI and data vendor and open-source landscape
• Excellent communication skills: able to align data engineers, sector leaders and executives around governance and value narratives
• Strong stakeholder management across a large, matrixed organization, working with multiple sectors and functions in parallel
• Fluent business English (C1+ equivalent); able to lead technical and executive conversations across international teams. Polish is an advantage
• Comfortable working on-site/hybrid from Kraków and collaborating with distributed teams across time zones
• Nice-to-have
  • Experience with data ethics, privacy and AI regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, EU AI Act)
  • Familiarity with metadata management, data catalog and data quality tooling
  • Background in management consulting, transformation programs or internal innovation functions

Your Responsibilities

• Own unified AI data governance and strategy across Comarch, including cross-sector data integration, metadata management and data ethics
• Own the AI scorecard on a monthly and quarterly cadence, linked to MBOs, translating AI strategy into measurable business value across sectors
• Run the annual AI maturity diagnosis (McKinsey 12-practice framework) and track progress across the four dimensions of success
• Track ROI per sector against Hub running cost across both lenses - hard ROI and maturity - and publish the AI Impact Report
• Own AI data tooling and its technical implementation across sectors
• Define data standards, taxonomies and metadata practices that enable cross-sector reuse and reliable, well-governed AI agents
• Establish and enforce data ethics, privacy and compliance guardrails for AI across the group
• Partner with sector Heads of AI and CTOs to integrate data pipelines and ensure consistent, governed data foundations
• Define KPIs and reporting cadence; advise the Chief AI Officer and leadership on AI value realization and investment decisions
• Report scorecard results, ROI and maturity to the Chief AI Officer and sector stakeholders

For You

• Strategic role with a direct impact on business outcomes and the effectiveness of the group-wide AI transformation
• Work in an environment that promotes experimentation and building a culture of transformation based on Agentic AI and GenAI
• Opportunity for close collaboration and knowledge sharing with Comarch’s top AI leaders (including the Chief AI Officer and sector Heads of AI/CTOs)
• High autonomy in shaping the global AI data governance strategy, standards, and data tooling across the entire group
• A pivotal cross-sector role with direct exposure to executive leadership, advising on AI value realization and investment decisions
• A comprehensive benefits package, including private medical care (Allianz) for you and your family, and a Multisport card
• Flexibility to work in a hybrid model from our Kraków office