[Hiring] Lead Data Governance Consultant @phData

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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).

Benefits

• 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.