Data Governance Lead - GO Beyond Program

Ericsson

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???? Location: Sweden

???? Full-Time, Permanent Role | Start Date: Q3 2025

???? Part of Ericsson’s GO Beyond Program

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Take Your Career Beyond the Ordinary

Welcome to GO Beyond—Ericsson’s flagship early-career development program designed to accelerate the careers of professionals with 2–4 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 team—responsible for enabling federated governance across Ericsson’s global business units. We're on a mission to ensure Ericsson’s data is structured, governed, and fully AI-ready.

In this role, you’ll lead the development of our metadata and semantic layer strategy, critical for unlocking AI and analytics use cases. You’ll 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 You’ll Do

  • Design and implement data architecture solutions for the AI-driven future (e.g., DAP 2.0 and integration processes)
  • Drive the roadmap for semantic and metadata governance across unstructured and structured datasets
  • Partner with stakeholders to align business needs with data strategies and educate on governance best practices
  • Help establish semantics, metadata, and data quality frameworks needed for effective AI use case delivery
  • Support the development of data governance policies, tools, and standards, ensuring consistency and compliance across domains

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What You’ll Bring

  • 2–4 years of experience in data governance, information architecture, or data management
  • Understanding of core data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA principles)
  • Excellent relationship-building skills—able to influence without authority and educate stakeholders
  • A strategic and analytical mindset, with the ability to connect business use cases to technical design
  • 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 Ericsson’s 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, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´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?

Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.

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

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