Lead Data Governance Consultant

Our Lead Consultant Data Governance plays a key role in helping clients embed governance and stewardship into their daily work. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Required Experience

• 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).

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

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