Senior Consultant, Data Governance
About The Position
Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises. We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results. 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.
Requirements
- Senior Consultant, Data Governance role requires a modern perspective on the design and rollout of data governance.
- Ability to communicate governance concepts in clear business language.
- Experience preparing presentations, training materials, and adoption guides.
- Experience facilitating data governance working groups to drive alignment between business and technology stakeholders.
- Experience executing metadata management activities such as cataloging, lineage capture, and stewardship workflows.
- Experience partnering with business teams to draft and maintain business rules, definitions, and data quality controls.
- Experience applying data quality processes such as profiling, monitoring, and issue management.
- Experience supporting the installation, configuration, rollout and adoption of governance/metadata tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Purview).
- Experience coaching client staff on data stewardship practices.
- Experience providing input on access controls, privacy, and compliance with regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
- Experience collaborating with data engineers, analysts, and business owners to embed governance into daily workflows, platform pipelines, modeling practices, and observability.
- Experience installing and configuring metadata/catalog tools in client environments.
- Experience building and curating catalogs, including ingestion of technical metadata, business glossaries, and lineage.
- Experience defining user personas and designing role-appropriate experiences (data stewards, data owners, analysts, engineers).
- Experience tailoring tool UX (workflows, dashboards, search optimization) to improve usability and adoption.
Responsibilities
- Support the design of tailored data governance programs, with recommendations on processes, team structure, decision rights and boundaries.
- Design policies and controls for effective data governance execution.
- Bring a modern perspective on the design and rollout of data governance.
- Communicate governance concepts in clear business language; prepare presentations, training materials, and adoption guides.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- remote-first work environment
- ownership over work
- award-winning workplace
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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