Lead Data Governance Consultant

Job Title: Lead Data Governance Consultant

100% remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement enterprise-wide data governance frameworks operating models and roadmaps.
• Stand up and mature governance programs including policies standards procedures and enforcement mechanisms.
• Develop and formalize governance playbooks and instructional guides to enable consistent adoption.
• Establish enterprise data quality frameworks including profiling monitoring controls and remediation workflows. Be able to create data quality Playbooks for remediation and action paths for stewards.
• Define and implement data classification and labeling standards ensuring alignment with access controls and security policies.
• Design and formalize stewardship models including roles responsibilities escalation paths and accountability structures.
• Build and operationalize business glossaries data catalogs and metadata repositories.
• Establish and document data lineage capabilities across critical systems and domains.
• Implement and configure enterprise governance tools such as Collibra or similar platforms.
• Advise on metadata strategy including technical and business metadata & MDM integration.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to align governance controls with regulatory requirements for data access and privacy protection.
• Explain and justify governance sequencing and dependencies to stakeholders (e.g. why policies precede stewardship how classification impacts access).
• Drive cross-functional alignment across data engineering analytics architecture and business teams.
• Operate independently as the governance subject matter expert without requiring close oversight.
• Have knowledge and be able communicate why and how data governance enables AI Governance and the differences amongst the two types of governance.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders
• High-level knowledge and understanding of data bricks snowflake and alike platforms.

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Required Skills:

Data GovernanceEvaluationsValue PropositionsCMMIMaturity IndexroadmapOperating Modelsstakeholdersdata bricksSnowflakeAI GovernanceSubject Matter Expertsclose oversightCross-functional AlignmentData EngineeringAnalyticsArchitecturebusiness teamsMetadataMDM integration