phData

Lead Data Governance Consultant

phData

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
data governancemetadata managementdata quality processesdata profilingdata monitoringissue managementbusiness rules definitiondata stewardship
Soft skills
leadershipmultitaskingprioritizationcommunicationcoachingmentoringcollaboration