Senior Consultant, Data Governance in United States Embassy at Jobgether
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Job Description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Consultant, Data Governance based in United States.
This role offers the opportunity to help organizations build sustainable data governance practices that enable better decision-making and trusted data usage.
You will work directly with clients to design governance frameworks, improve data quality, and establish effective stewardship models.
The position combines technical expertise, business communication, and consulting skills to bridge the gap between data teams and business stakeholders.
You will contribute to modern governance initiatives involving metadata management, cataloging, compliance, and data enablement.
As a trusted advisor, you will guide teams in adopting practical governance processes that scale with evolving data environments.
This is a hands-on consulting role for someone passionate about helping enterprises unlock the value of their data through strong governance foundations.
The Senior Consultant, Data Governance will support clients in designing and implementing practical data governance programs that improve data quality, ownership, and accessibility. This role requires a balance of strategic thinking, technical execution, and stakeholder engagement to help organizations establish long-term governance capabilities.
- Support the development of customized data governance strategies, including operating models, governance structures, decision rights, and accountability frameworks.
- Design and implement data governance policies, standards, controls, and processes aligned with business objectives.
- Help clients establish effective data stewardship practices and embed governance into daily operations.
- Facilitate collaboration between business leaders, data teams, engineers, analysts, and other stakeholders to drive alignment.
- Lead governance working groups, workshops, and training sessions to improve adoption and engagement.
- Translate complex governance concepts into clear business language through presentations, documentation, enablement materials, and adoption guides.
- Execute metadata management activities, including data cataloging, lineage capture, glossary development, and stewardship workflows.
- Partner with business teams to define business rules, data definitions, ownership models, and data quality expectations.
- Apply data quality practices such as profiling, monitoring, validation, and issue management to improve trust in enterprise data.
- Support the implementation, configuration, and adoption of data governance and metadata management platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Atlan, or Microsoft Purview.
- Configure governance tools by building catalogs, ingesting technical metadata, establishing lineage, and optimizing user experiences.
- Define governance workflows, dashboards, personas, and platform capabilities for data owners, stewards, analysts, and engineers.
- Provide guidance on data access controls, privacy considerations, and regulatory requirements including GDPR and CCPA.
- Collaborate with technical teams to integrate governance practices into data platforms, pipelines, analytics environments, and operational processes.
- Coach client teams on sustainable governance approaches that encourage long-term ownership and accountability.
The ideal candidate is an experienced data governance professional with strong consulting capabilities and the ability to connect technical solutions with business needs. This role requires expertise in governance frameworks, metadata management, data quality, and stakeholder enablement.
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise data governance programs in consulting or enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of data governance principles, operating models, stewardship frameworks, and governance best practices.
- Hands-on experience with metadata management, data catalogs, lineage, business glossaries, and governance workflows.
- Experience working with data governance platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Microsoft Purview, or similar tools.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong facilitation skills with experience leading workshops, working groups, and stakeholder discussions.
- Experience defining data quality rules, controls, monitoring processes, and issue resolution workflows.
- Understanding of data privacy, security, and compliance requirements such as GDPR and CCPA.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with data engineers, analysts, architects, business owners, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a practical, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Experience supporting organizational change, training, and governance adoption initiatives.
- Comfortable working in a client-facing consulting environment with multiple priorities and evolving requirements.
- Remote-first work environment with flexibility to work from home.
- Opportunity to work with leading organizations on complex data and AI transformation initiatives.
- Exposure to modern data platforms, governance technologies, and innovative industry practices.
- Opportunity to collaborate with experienced data and technology professionals across multiple regions.
- Career growth opportunities within a fast-growing consulting environment.
- Ability to make a meaningful impact by helping organizations create trusted, scalable data foundations.
- Inclusive workplace culture focused on collaboration, diversity, and professional development.