Senior Consultant, Data Governance

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As a Senior Consultant, Data Governance, you'll play a key role in helping clients embed governance and stewardship into their daily work. This is a hands-on role focused on executing governance activities, supporting metadata cataloging, and applying practical data quality controls. Just as important, this person will act as a communicator and facilitator—helping form working groups, align business and technical teams, and coach client staff on how to take ownership as data stewards.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• Metadata Tools & Platform Enablement

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

• Willingness to travel as required by clients.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience).

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading or supporting data governance working groups or stewardship councils.

• Knowledge of data access provisioning, integration patterns, or lineage capture.

• Experience building adoption materials, training guides, or playbooks for governance programs.

• Prior client-facing consulting experience.

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