Lead Data Governance Consultant

Job Description: • 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 Apply tot his job