Senior Consultant, Data Governance

• Facilitate data governance working groups to drive alignment between business and technology stakeholders.
• Execute metadata management activities such as cataloging, lineage capture, and stewardship workflows.
• Partner with business teams to draft and maintain business rules, definitions, and data quality controls.
• Apply data quality processes such as profiling, monitoring, and issue management, ensuring rules are practical and adopted.
• Support the installation, configuration, rollout and adoption of governance/metadata tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Purview).
• Coach client staff on data stewardship practices—showing them how to govern their data effectively and sustainably.
• Communicate governance concepts in clear business language; prepare presentations, training materials, and adoption guides.
• Provide input on access controls, privacy, and compliance with regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business owners to embed governance into daily workflows, platform pipelines, modeling practices, and observability.
• Install and configure metadata/catalog tools in client environments.
• Build and curate catalogs, including ingestion of technical metadata, business glossaries, and lineage.
• Define user personas and design role-appropriate experiences (data stewards, data owners, analysts, engineers).
• Tailor tool UX (workflows, dashboards, search optimization) to improve usability and adoption.
• Configure governance workflows (e.g., DG asset approvals, stewardship assignments, issue tracking).
• Leverage and guide customers on AI-assisted features in modern tools (auto-classification, definition drafting, similarity matching, lineage discovery) to accelerate execution and adoption.
• Partner with client IT teams to ensure tools are integrated into enterprise platforms and security models.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in data governance, metadata management, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with data catalog/metadata tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Atlan, Purview).
• Exposure to data quality tools and processes (Informatica, Talend, Ataccama, or equivalent).
• Strong communication skills: able to facilitate workshops, write clear business documentation, and present to mixed audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to define and obtain alignment for definition, business rules and data quality controls.
• Familiarity with governance operating models and stewardship practices.
• Knowledge of privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and how governance practices support compliance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience).

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Hard Skills

• data governance
• metadata management
• data quality processes
• data profiling
• data monitoring
• data issue management
• data cataloging
• data lineage capture
• data stewardship
• user persona definition

Soft Skills

• communication
• facilitation
• presentation
• collaboration
• coaching
• documentation writing
• alignment definition
• workshop facilitation
• training material preparation
• usability improvement