[Hiring] Senior Advisory Consultant, Data Governance @phData

Role Description

You'll play a key role in helping clients embed governance and stewardship into their daily work. This is a hands-on role focused on executing governance activities, supporting metadata cataloging, and applying practical data quality controls. Just as important, 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.

• 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

• 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).

Preferred Skills

• 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.

Benefits

• Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year.
• AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network.
• 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year).
• 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status.
• 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year.
• Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network.
• #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications.
• 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more).
• Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM.

Company Description

phData is a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.

phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.