Lakshmi Muniandi
Manager - Data Governance & Strategy
Wuppertal
Summary
Certified DAMA & DCAM framework Data professional & Enterprise Data Governance Manager with 8+ years of experience in designing and managing comprehensive Data Governance programs, Data Management, Data Stewardship, Data Cataloging, Data Mesh, and Data Product culture, Data Quality, Self-service BI Analytics, and enhancing Data Governance projects with assured ROI to the business. Demonstrated expertise in team leadership, planning, and organizational skills, empowering employees to independently handle daily functions and meet customer needs.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Manager - Data Governance, Data Quality & Data Catalog Strategy
Vaillant Group
11.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: HVAC & Energy based manufacturing industry
- Designed & developed Stewardship program with clear roles & responsibilities for Global & Local Stewards
- Established and maintained an enterprise-wide Global Data Catalog Collibra, enhancing metadata management, data lineage
- Developed a robust foundational approach to draft Data Domains for organizing data assets across multiple BUs, systems (SAP, Salesforce), and subject areas, covering Master, Transactional, and Reference Data
- Built a scalable metadata management process that standardize data dictionary, business glossaries, KPIs, and improving consistency and cross-functional data usage across business units in EMEA regions
- Designed and operationalized a Data Quality Framework, reducing data errors on Master Data in collaboration with Global Process Owners from E2E business streams (R2R,, O2C, L2O)
- Experienced in setting up Data Governance Office to manage & orchestrate interaction model across data users like Data Stewards, custodians & BI users
- Facilitated Data Council meetings (Data Gov Center, Exec Gov Center, Data Domain Council) to align on data governance priorities, driving process ownership and issue management
- Define data standards and best practices and implement data governance and best practices policies to support data FAIRness and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR) across EU boundaries
- Worked on Data Product, Data Mesh culture, SAP S/4 Migrations, Data Classification & PII anonymization, Data Quality Frameworks for Governance side
- Enforced AI governance policies to ensure ethical and compliant data usage in AI models, aligning AI practices with global regulations
Data Governance Manager
PricewaterhouseCoppers GmbH
08.2021 - 10.2022
- Company Overview: Consulting & Professional Services
- Established a robust Data Mesh culture across three data domains, collaborating with teams from Data Privacy, Data Infrastructure, and IT departments, with dedicated Data Stewards and Custodians to manage federated data governance
- Experienced in Data Catalog (Collibra) to manage metadata, quality metrics, and the data product repository, integrating with toolsets including Snowflake and Databricks, and adapting to a canonical data model
- Introduced a Data Quality Management framework, including foundational concepts, tool implementations, and team structure with defined roles (DQ Steward, DQ Lead) to create, manage, and monitor data quality rules, workflows, and visualizations in dashboard tools like Power BI, Tableau, and DataDog
- Set up and implemented Data Domains in the Data Catalog for Finance, Sales, and Customer subjects, including data assets (Data Objects, Business Glossaries, Processes) across multiple systems, teams, and regions
- Integrated the Data Product concept into the Data Mesh culture, establishing relevant roles and responsibilities
- Defined roles and responsibilities for Data Officers (Stewards, Custodians, and Domain Owners), organized councils and committees (Executive Governance Council, Data Governance Council, Data Steward Committee), and orchestrated an interaction model within the Data Catalog and JIRA (Service Ticket Systems)
- Conducted strong stakeholder communications for product demonstrations, concept explanations (Q&A), training sessions, cost proposals and analyses, project roadmap pitches, and dashboard analysis with storytelling
- Managed Data Privacy and Compliance standards - ensuring GDPR and PII anonymization, setting access permissions for sensitive data, and approval workflows for critical data assets in Customer and Finance domains
- Demonstrated expertise in conducting Proof of Concept (PoC) for data programs, managing planned budgets, and evaluating outcomes
- Promoted Data Literacy programs across data departments to ensure the usage of data across stakeholders internally & externally
Data Manager in Center of Data & AI Excellence
HRS Group
03.2018 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Hotel portal booking
- Served on the Data Governance Council and AI Committee to contribute to strategy decisions, introducing data checks for GDPR, CCPA, Data Lifecycle Management, rules, policies, and standards
- Defined roles and responsibilities with a communication matrix to streamline, and built the workflow gates to approve the AI models rollout
- Implemented a data audit solution to monitor data changes, ensuring alignment with data regulations across business units
- Managed the Data Catalog integrated with AWS Glue, S3 to oversee master and transactional data
- Oversaw data governance within a unified data storage system (Exasol), implementing data quality (DQ) rules, data access permission workflows, GDPR compliance, and PII anonymization for AI models
- Directed the Center of Data and AI Excellence, handling data according to regulatory requirements, ethical values, and standards outlined in the EU GDPR Data Act
- Developed data quality scorecards to visualize KPIs and metrics across various DQ dimensions and business domains, using Power BI and MicroStrategy toolsets
- Orchestrated a streamlined reactive workflow for data remediation in response to low DQ scores and weak data governance (e.g., data sensitivity tagging,accountability, metadata mismatches),
Data Service Team Lead / Sr. Steward - Full Time
Technotree Corporation
06.2010 - 09.2015
- Lead a team of 8 Data professionals incl. Data Stewards, Data Custodians and Reporting managers
- Developed and managed data analytics products, including sales and customer dashboards and monitoring tools like Power BI
- Established and enforced data quality rules on customer transactional data, monitoring for trend deviations, patterns, and fraud indicators
- Experienced in Agile and OKR project methodologies
- Managed the Data policies & regulations according to the compliance standards
Education
Master of Science - Data Knowledge & Engineering
Otto Von Guericke University
Germany 08.2015 - 01.2018
Skills
Data Governance
Data Compliance & Privacy security
DAMA, EU Data Act, BCBS 239, GDPR
Data warehousing & Migration
Master Data Management
AI Governance
Collibra Data Catalog
Data Quality & Lifecycle Management
SAP ECC, MDG & SAP S/4 HANA, Salesforce
Azure Databricks, Snowflake (Data Lake)
PowerBI, Tableau & Dashboard Analytics
Metadata management
Data modeling
Team leadership
Project Management
Team building
Excellent communication
Continuous process improvement
Certification
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP DAMA-DMBOK2) MyCredentials: https://eu.credential.net/dfbbd9f2-395a-4854-a7f8-15976b349f23#acc.l8KDysYT
Communications
Blog Website: https://medium.com/@lakshmiDataGroot
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmiprasath/
Personal Information
- Gender: Male
- Visa Status: Valid EU Visa with Work Permit
Publications
AI based solution for finding Tinnitus Patients with Similar Evolution of Their Ecological Momentary Assessments, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8417222
Timeline
DCAM (EDM Council) Data Management Framework- My Credentials: https://eu.credential.net/dfbbd9f2-395a-4854-a7f8-15976b349f23#acc.l8KDysYT
03-2025
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP DAMA-DMBOK2) MyCredentials: https://eu.credential.net/dfbbd9f2-395a-4854-a7f8-15976b349f23#acc.l8KDysYT
02-2025
Implementing DataGovOps - MyCredentials: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/8c1d4ff647b6b5ddee9807ebd9b29fd197d6558403d7e82ad3c3907fbfa45c70?trk=share_certificate
02-2025
Manager - Data Governance, Data Quality & Data Catalog Strategy
Vaillant Group
11.2022 - Current
Data Governance Manager
PricewaterhouseCoppers GmbH
08.2021 - 10.2022
Data Manager in Center of Data & AI Excellence
HRS Group
03.2018 - 07.2021
Master of Science - Data Knowledge & Engineering
Otto Von Guericke University
08.2015 - 01.2018
Data Service Team Lead / Sr. Steward - Full Time
Technotree Corporation
06.2010 - 09.2015
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