Surge Global is a digital consultancy that leverages marketing, data, and technology to help businesses grow. As Sri Lanka’s leading digital firm, we employ the best content, creative, design, and engineering talent the country has to offer.

Embracing a culture of transparency and equality in the workplace, we’ve built an environment that helps Sri Lanka’s best marketing and creative talent thrive. Our team approaches complex, multivariate challenges with an open mind and a strong willingness to continuously test, learn, and innovate.

With our headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we support and scale startups to Fortune 500 companies across the United States, Europe, Australia, Middle East, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and Sri Lanka.

Lead – Data Evangelist is responsible for establishing and institutionalizing the organisation-wide data governance framework and driving the execution of the organisation’s data strategy and related initiatives. This role will ensure that data across the organisation is trusted, high-quality, secure, and aligned with business priorities. This position is key to enabling the organisation’s journey towards smarter, more data-driven decision making.

The role also leads the Data Evangelist function, comprising domain-specific analytics resources across the organisation, to champion best practices, foster a data-driven culture, and enable actionable insights. By partnering with senior leaders, technology teams, and business stakeholders, the Lead ensures that data is managed as a strategic asset, supporting innovation, compliance, and intelligent decision-making across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Establish, implement, and institutionalize an organisation-wide data strategy & governance framework, embedding policies, standards, and best practices.
• Drive the execution of the organisation’s data strategy and related initiatives, ensuring alignment with business priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure effective delivery of advanced analytics use cases aligned with business priorities and monitor value realizations, Return on Investment (ROI), and performance of advanced analytics initiatives.
• Promote enterprise-wide adoption of data stewardship practices, ensuring data is accurate, reliable, accessible, secure, compliant, and high quality.
• Establish and monitor enterprise-level data quality metrics including completeness, consistency, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Lead initiatives to embed a data-driven mindset across the organization, ensuring that data is recognized as a strategic asset in decision-making.
• Lead the Data Evangelists to champion best practices, foster adoption of governance standards, and enable actionable insights.
• Partner with senior leaders, business units, and technology teams to integrate governance practices into core business processes.
• Ensure all data governance and analytics practices adhere to regulatory requirements, internal audits, and ethical data use standards.
• Identify and implement emerging tools, methodologies, and frameworks to enhance enterprise data management and governance.
• Mentor and develop teams across the organisation to build data governance expertise, awareness, and a culture of data accountability.

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, Business Strategy & Transformation, Data/Information Management, Digital/Data Transformation, Statistics, Mathematics or a related field.
• A professional certification in Business management, Finance, Data governance, Business strategy are recognized as value-added qualifications.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 06 years of work experience in the field of Data strategy, Analytics delivery, Data/Business management, Data governance, Data evangelism, Business Transformation or related fields.