[Hiring] Data Governance Lead - Senior Manager @Attain Partners

Role Description

The Data Governance Lead – Senior Manager is responsible for building, leading, and growing the firm’s Data Governance capabilities while serving as a hands-on delivery leader on client engagements. This role combines three primary responsibilities:

• Data Governance Consulting & Delivery: Lead client governance programs, workshops, workstreams, and deliverables.
• Data Governance Practice Development: Develop repeatable offerings, methodologies, accelerators, and solutions that can be taken to market.
• Databricks Practice & Alliance Leadership: Help establish and grow Databricks capabilities, solutions, partnership relationships, and associated revenue opportunities.

The ideal candidate combines strong consulting and client leadership skills with deep knowledge of enterprise data governance, modern cloud data platforms, Databricks, metadata management, data quality, and organizational change.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, or enterprise data programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise Data Governance programs.
• Strong understanding of frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK and DCAM.
• Experience establishing Data Owner and Data Steward operating models.
• Experience developing governance policies, standards, procedures, and controls.
• Experience with metadata, business glossaries, data catalogs, lineage, and data quality.
• Experience with platforms such as Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Microsoft Purview, or similar technologies.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud data platforms and Lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with or strong knowledge of Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark, PySpark, SQL, and modern ETL/ELT architectures.
• Understanding of cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
• Demonstrated experience leading client-facing consulting engagements.
• Ability to lead executive workshops and facilitate complex stakeholder discussions.
• Strong project and program management capabilities.
• Excellent executive communication, presentation, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong change management and organizational adoption capabilities.
• Experience developing consulting offerings and bringing new services to market.
• Experience supporting complex proposals, estimates, statements of work, and RFP responses.
• Demonstrated ability to develop client relationships and identify follow-on opportunities.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Business, or related discipline.
• CDMP, DAMA, DCAM, Collibra, Informatica, Databricks, or cloud certifications preferred.

Requirements

• Own and manage enterprise Data Governance program roadmaps.
• Establish program priorities, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and success metrics.
• Manage day-to-day workflows for the Data Governance Office (DGO).
• Maintain project plans, Jira boards, issue logs, decision logs, risks, and action items.
• Provide clear program status and executive-level reporting.
• Coordinate governance activities across multiple business and technology workstreams.
• Design, implement, and operationalize enterprise Data Governance frameworks.
• Develop and maintain data governance policies, data management standards, data classification standards, governance procedures, data ownership models, data quality standards, and data lifecycle standards.
• Align governance frameworks with organizational strategy, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture.
• Establish and facilitate Data Governance Councils, working groups, and steering committees.
• Prepare governance agendas, executive pre-reads, scorecards, and decision materials.
• Facilitate difficult cross-functional discussions involving data ownership, definitions, priorities, and accountability.
• Serve as the Data Governance Lead on client engagements.
• Lead governance workstreams from discovery through implementation.
• Plan and facilitate client workshops with executive, functional, and technical stakeholders.
• Develop future-state governance models and implementation roadmaps.
• Own the quality and completion of client deliverables.

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs.
• 11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO).
• Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
• Flexible career paths – our career tracks provide advancement, mobility, and flexibility as you continue to grow with us.
• A healthy environment where we value unique experiences, and care about everything that makes you, you.