[Remote] Senior Consultant, Data Governance
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. phData is a dynamic and innovative leader in the modern data stack, partnering with major cloud data platforms to deliver cutting-edge services. As a Senior Consultant in Data Governance, you'll help clients embed governance and stewardship into their daily work, facilitating collaboration between business and technology stakeholders while executing governance activities and supporting metadata management.
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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Willingness to travel as required by clients
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
- 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
Company Overview
- phData Premier provider of Big Data managed services and architecture, engineering, and data science consulting. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.phdata.io/.
Company H1B Sponsorship
- phData has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2025, 13 in 2024, 4 in 2023, 16 in 2022, 15 in 2021, 9 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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