SORAYA SAFLICKI
HOLIDAY INN CLUB VACATIONS
Orlando,FL
20
years of professional experience
Results-driven Data Governance and Strategy Leader with 25+ years in enterprise data and technology transformation across diverse sectors. Established governance policies and quality controls that enhance data integrity and decision-making. Skilled in Snowflake Horizon governance, cross-functional leadership, and modernization programs, effectively translating complex governance needs into actionable business practices.
Work History
Data Governance Manager
11 Months- Established and enforced enterprise data governance policies, standards, and procedures to strengthen data integrity, security, stewardship, and regulatory compliance across the organization.
- Designed and implemented governance capabilities within Snowflake using Snowflake Horizon for data classification, tagging, lineage, and policy-based access controls.
- Governed 8,000+ CDEs across 8 enterprise data domains and 5 applications, partnering with 10-40 stakeholders to define ownership, metadata, quality expectations, and control requirements.
- Evaluated business processes and data flows to assess control effectiveness and implemented improvements that strengthened data quality, lineage transparency, governance maturity, and issue resolution.
- Implemented row-level security, dynamic data masking, and role-based access controls to protect sensitive PII and financial data and support compliance requirements.
- Led centralized governance policy deployment with distributed enforcement across development, test, and production practices, improving consistency of policy application.
- Enabled end-to-end data lineage and impact analysis through Snowflake-native capabilities, increasing transparency and accelerating root cause analysis for data issues.
- Partnered with data engineering, analytics, business stakeholders, data owners, and stewards to define data classification standards, metadata strategies, governance operating models, and stewardship responsibilities.
- Provided governance oversight for secure data sharing and data product enablement across internal teams and external partners using Snowflake data sharing capabilities.
- Reported to senior leadership on governance posture, policy compliance, data usage trends, quality metrics, and risk exposure through executive dashboards and KPI reporting.
- Managed and mentored a 4-person governance team, including 3 direct reports, and led all governance forums, modernization meetings, and monthly data steward sessions.
- Developed governance automation and deployment practices, including CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code concepts, to promote consistent policy implementation across environments.
Senior IT Project Manager / Business Consultant / Product Manager
18 Years 10 Months- Served as a strictly client-facing consultant supporting 50+ organizations across local government, utilities, transportation, engineering, and construction.
- Led 3-5 concurrent enterprise technology engagements and cross-functional teams of 10-30 professionals while managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, vendors, and client expectations.
- Traveled to client sites to facilitate executive meetings, stakeholder workshops, requirements sessions, process reviews, and solution-planning discussions with business and technical leaders.
- Partnered with clients to define data requirements, business rules, ownership responsibilities, operational standards, reporting needs, and process-improvement opportunities.
- Facilitated BPMN 2.0 As-Is/To-Be process workshops in Microsoft Visio to improve workflows, clarify controls, and support enterprise modernization.
- Supported ERP, enterprise software, data, GIS, and digital transformation initiatives through requirements, design, QA/UAT, deployment, stabilization, and transition to support.
- Served as Product Manager for an enterprise application, leading roadmap development, requirements, prioritization, backlog management, testing, implementation, and ongoing enhancements.
- Implemented a GIS-based routing solution that optimized inspector routes and increased the number of utility meters read per day for a county.
- Consistently delivered client projects on time and within budget through disciplined planning, proactive risk identification, early issue escalation, and executive communication.
Education
MBA - Business Administration And Management
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science, Spanish
Skills
Governance Strategy
CDE Governance
Data Governance
Data Strategy
Data Integrity
Data Security
Access Control
Data Masking
PII Protection
Regulatory Alignment
Policy Compliance
Operating Models
Stewardship Models
Metadata Strategy
Classification
Tagging
Lineage
Data Exchange
Business Rules
Governance Councils
Regulations
Checks
Authority Levels
Responsibility
Stakeholder Engagement
Problem Analysis
Problem Resolution
Process Improvement
BPMN 2.0
Process analysis
Roadmaps
Snowflake Horizon
Informatica
Power BI
SQL
ServiceNow
Jira
Confluence
SharePoint
Microsoft Visio
Skill Development
Change Management
Data Literacy
Team Leadership
Risk Monitoring
Specifications
Specifications
Team Leadership
Executive Leadership Highlights
- Directed enterprise data governance across 8 data domains - Customer, Finance, HR, Marketing, MarTech, FinTech, Legal, and Owner Data - spanning 5 governed enterprise applications.
- Established governance oversight for 8,000+ critical data elements (CDEs), strengthening data quality, stewardship, classification, lineage visibility, and accountability.
- Built and led a 4-person Data Governance team with 3 direct reports while coordinating 10-40 business and technology stakeholders across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Customer Experience, and Owner organizations.
- Authored approximately 10 enterprise data standards, 6 SOPs, and 3 governance policies to standardize data management, improve control consistency, and support governance maturity.
- Chaired all Data Governance forums, including twice-weekly governance standups, twice-weekly modernization meetings, and a monthly Data Steward meeting.
- Applied Snowflake Horizon capabilities including classification, tagging, lineage, policy-based access controls, row-level security, dynamic data masking, role-based access controls, and impact analysis.
Timeline
Data Governance Manager
HOLIDAY INN CLUB VACATIONS
08.2025 - 07.2026Read More
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ATKINSRÉALIS
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Southern New Hampshire University
MBA from Business Administration And Management
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Whitworth College
Bachelor of Arts from Political Science, Spanish
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