Data Governance Lead - GO Beyond Program
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š Location: Sweden
š Full-Time, Permanent Role | Start Date: Q3 2025
š Part of Ericssonās GO Beyond Program
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Take Your Career Beyond the Ordinary
Welcome to GO BeyondāEricssonās flagship early-career development program designed to accelerate the careers of professionals with 2ā4 years of experience. This permanent role blends deep technical ownership with strategic visibility, including a six-month secondment to another business unit to expand your cross-functional understanding and influence.
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Shape the Future of AI Through Data Governance
Join our diverse, forward-thinking Data Governance teamāresponsible for enabling federated governance across Ericssonās global business units. We're on a mission to ensure Ericssonās data is structured, governed, and fully AI-ready.
In this role, youāll lead the development of our metadata and semantic layer strategy, critical for unlocking AI and analytics use cases. Youāll collaborate with data owners across the business, guiding them in aligning IT capabilities with business goals through better data architecture and information stewardship.
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What Youāll Do
ā¢ Design and implement data architecture solutions for the AI-driven future (e.g., DAP 2.0 and integration processes)
ā¢ Drive the roadmap for semantic and metadata governance across unstructured and structured datasets
ā¢ Partner with stakeholders to align business needs with data strategies and educate on governance best practices
ā¢ Help establish semantics, metadata, and data quality frameworks needed for effective AI use case delivery
ā¢ Support the development of data governance policies, tools, and standards, ensuring consistency and compliance across domains
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What Youāll Bring
ā¢ 2ā4 years of experience in data governance, information architecture, or data management
ā¢ Understanding of core data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA principles)
ā¢ Excellent relationship-building skillsāable to influence without authority and educate stakeholders
ā¢ A strategic and analytical mindset, with the ability to connect business use cases to technical design
ā¢ Self-driven, pragmatic, and curious about new technologies and data use in AI systems
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A Unique Development Opportunity
As part of Ericssonās GO Beyond program, this permanent role includes a 6-month secondment to another Global Functions team. This secondment offers you exposure to a new area of the business (e.g., finance, operations, or legal), expanding your internal network and cross-functional insights, while maintaining your primary role (when you return back) and progression within the Data Governance team.
This is a career-defining opportunity to step into a high-visibility, business-critical area of Ericsson and contribute meaningfully from day one.
Why join Ericsson?
At Ericsson, youĀ“ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of whatĀ“s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the worldās toughest problems. YouĀ“ll be challenged, but you wonāt be alone. YouĀ“ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply?
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Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || Stockholm
Req ID: 768830
