Data Governance Consultant

Data Consultant, Data Governance

You will design and deliver data governance solutions for enterprise clients. Depending on the engagement, you will either lead it as the primary governance consultant or own key workstreams within a larger program. You are the bridge between governance strategy and platform implementation: you assess the current state, design the target model, and turn it into processes, catalog configuration and controls that client teams adopt and run on their own.

What you will do

• Assessment and design: assess governance maturity; define the target operating model, governance framework, policies and standards; build the roadmap and prioritization (CDEs, domains, use cases).
• Operating model implementation: implement roles (owners, stewards, custodians), decision rights and RACI; facilitate the workshops that get them adopted; document procedures and standards.
• Catalog and metadata: build the business glossary, onboard critical assets, document lineage, and configure stewardship and certification workflows in Atlan, Collibra or similar.
• Data quality: define rules with the business, partner with engineers to implement them (Snowflake, dbt, Atlan DQ, Monte Carlo), and deliver scorecards and issue management through remediation.
• Certified metrics: establish certified definitions and approval workflows for critical KPIs and reports.
• Governance by design: work with architects and engineers to embed governance controls and metadata into delivery pipelines, and identify automation opportunities.
• Adoption and handover: stakeholder mapping, communications, steward onboarding, training and knowledge transfer so client teams can operate governance independently.
• Practice: contribute reusable accelerators (playbooks, templates, rule libraries).