Senior Consultant Data Governance

Our Senior Consultant Data Governance plays 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.

The ideal candidate combines tool knowledge with strong communication skills: able to configure and roll out metadata solutions write clear business rules document quality controls and guide client teams through “how to” governance practices.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• Metadata Tools & Platform Enablement

  • 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.

  • Configure governance workflows (e.g. DG asset approvals stewardship assignments issue tracking).

  • Leverage and guide customers on AI-assisted features in modern tools (auto-classification definition drafting similarity matching lineage discovery) to accelerate execution and adoption.

Partner with client IT teams to ensure tools are integrated into enterprise platforms and security models.

Required Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in data governance metadata management or related roles.

• Hands-on experience with data catalog/metadata tools (e.g. Alation Collibra Atlan Purview).

• Exposure to data quality tools and processes (Informatica Talend Ataccama or equivalent).

• Strong communication skills: able to facilitate workshops write clear business documentation and present to mixed audiences.

• 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.

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field (or equivalent work experience).

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading or supporting data governance working groups or stewardship councils.

• Knowledge of data access provisioning integration patterns or lineage capture.

• Experience building adoption materials training guides or playbooks for governance programs.

• Prior client-facing consulting experience.

Why phData? We offer:

• 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