
Senior Consultant, Data Governance
INTELLIGEN
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sydney • Australia
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About the role
- Design and implement enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and operating models aligned to client goals and industry best practice.
- Define the Enterprise Data Governance model and operating rhythm to underpin AI, analytics, and broader data transformation initiatives.
- Establish minimum standards for AI-enabling data, including data quality, lineage, metadata, access, and accountability.
- Map AI governance requirements to existing data governance artefacts, controls, and business processes.
- Contribute to the AI Governance Framework and Operating Model, ensuring alignment between responsible AI practices and enterprise data foundations.
- Define and document data ownership, stewardship, and accountability models across business and technology functions.
- Provide strong day-to-day coordination across client stakeholders, ensuring governance decisions, actions, and dependencies are managed effectively across business and technical teams.
- Support the establishment of data quality management processes, metrics, controls, and monitoring mechanisms.
- Facilitate workshops, stakeholder forums, and training sessions to drive adoption, engagement, and cultural change around data ownership, literacy, and responsible AI.
- Collaborate with client leadership to improve decision-making, regulatory compliance, business performance, and confidence in AI and analytics outcomes.
Requirements
- 6+ years’ experience in data governance, data management, information management, or consulting roles.
- Experience developing and implementing data governance policies and procedures within complex organisational environments.
- Strong understanding of data governance principles, frameworks, and best practices, including familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK and related governance disciplines.
- Proven experience designing or implementing governance frameworks, policies, standards, stewardship models, and operating models.
- Experience supporting AI and digital transformation initiatives through strong data governance foundations.
- Strong understanding of the foundational data capabilities required to enable AI, including data quality, metadata, lineage, access controls, and governance by design.
- Experience mapping governance requirements across business, risk, compliance, and technology stakeholders.
- Familiarity with metadata management, data cataloguing, and lineage tools such as Collibra, Informatica, Alation, or similar platforms.
- Exposure to data quality management processes, controls, and tooling.
- Strong consulting and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to advise senior leaders while also working closely with delivery teams.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills - able to translate governance concepts into practical business value for both executive and operational audiences.
- Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary teams spanning strategy, engineering, analytics, and AI.
Benefits
- Structured development pathways so you always know what you’re working toward.
- Paid certifications across all major cloud and data technologies (mastery matters)
- Weekly training and knowledge exchanges where practitioners share real project insights.
- A dedicated support lead to mentor, guide and help you navigate your career
- Regular 360° feedback loops, giving you clear direction and honest insight into your progress.
- Innovation days where you can experiment, prototype and sharpen new skills.
- Team days, social catchups, many new community clubs…
- Opportunities to lead, influence and shape our growing practice as we expand across the region.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data governancedata managementinformation managementdata qualitymetadata managementdata lineageaccess controlsgovernance frameworksdata stewardshipAI governance
Soft Skills
stakeholder engagementconsultingcommunicationfacilitationcollaborationcoordinationadvisingcultural change managementdecision-making supporttraining
Certifications
DAMA-DMBOK