Sr. Data Governance Consultant

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. A job description is a summary of the essential and anticipated additional functions of a job and does not represent an all inclusive list of tasks or procedures.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

·         Drive the planning and execution of Data/BI governance initiatives, tasks, and deliverables.

·         Drive timely completion of governance activities and ensure alignment with organizational objectives.

·         Proactively identify and resolve issues, mitigating risks before they impact deliverables.

·         Escalate blockers promptly to appropriate forums for resolution.

·         Coach and mentor team members on data governance principles, practices, policies, standards, and deliverables.

·         Drive metadata curation to ensure completeness, accuracy, and quality within the business glossary.

·         Collect, develop, and implement Data Quality (DQ) rules 

·         Ensure semantic alignment of technical metadata (e.g., column names, data types, lineage, physical storage attributes) with enterprise data domains, preserving business meaning across all abstraction layers.

·         Apply governance standards consistently to all work efforts.

·         Communicate effectively to drive collaboration, promote governance adoption, and showcase program success

REQUIREMENTS:

·         Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree preferred or equivalent work experience.

·         Minimum 8 years of experience in data governance and data management implementations.

·         Proven experience leading data governance, data management, data quality, and data stewardship collaboration.

·         Solid communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

·         Strong understanding of DAMA/DMBOK framework.

·         Familiarity with data modeling

·         Hands-on experience with Collibra Data Governance and Collibra Data Quality tools is huge plus.

·         Prior experience in Delivering Data governance work in Agile set up is a huge plus.