Lead Data Governance Consultant
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Lead Data Governance Consultant at phData aiding clients in embedding data governance into operations. Collaborate with diverse teams to ensure effective data stewardship and compliance adherence.
Responsibilities:
- Lead workstreams within projects, and provides hands-on co-creation support.
- Partner with account executives and solution engineers on scoping and estimating new opportunities.
- 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.
Requirements:
- 6+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, or related roles.
- 2+ years of previous Consulting leadership experience working with external clients, with the ability to multitask, prioritize tasks, and work across a variety of projects.
- Adept at making technical recommendations that are tied to business outcomes.
- Knowledge of AI Governance, its facets, and how to incorporate into an AI Strategy.
- Has facilitated discovery sessions and workshops, ensuring a focus on business value to keep all participants aligned on the objectives.
- 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.
- Ability to coach and mentor others.
- Proven track record of collaborating with client stakeholders, technology partners, and cross-functional sales and delivery team members across distributed global teams, ensuring seamless, successful project delivery outcomes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
Benefits:
- Remote-First Work Environment
- Casual, award-winning small-business work environment
- Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
- Competitive comp, excellent benefits, 4 weeks PTO plan plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
- Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications
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