Senior Consultant, Data Governance (MDM)

Join phData, a dynamic and innovative leader in the modern data stack. We partner with major cloud data platforms like Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean, and dbt to deliver cutting-edge services and solutions. We're committed to helping global enterprises overcome their toughest data challenges. 

phData is a remote-first global company with employees based in the United States, Latin America, and India. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity, ownership, and trust. Even though we're growing extremely fast, we maintain a casual, exciting work environment. We hire top performers and allow you the autonomy to deliver results.

• 6x Snowflake Partner of the Year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)


• Fivetran, dbt, Atlation, and AWS Partner of the Year


• #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications


• 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, etc)

Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India, and LATAM

As a Senior Consultant, Data Governance, 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.

Core Responsibilities

• 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.


• Metadata Tools & Platform Enablement




• Install and configure metadata/catalog tools in client environments.


• Build and curate catalogs, including ingestion of technical metadata, business glossaries, and lineage.


• Define user personas and design role-appropriate experiences (data stewards, data owners, analysts, engineers).


• Tailor tool UX (workflows, dashboards, search optimization) to improve usability and adoption.


• Configure governance workflows (e.g., DG asset approvals, stewardship assignments, issue tracking).


• Leverage and guide customers on AI-assisted features in modern tools (auto-classification, definition drafting, similarity matching, lineage discovery) to accelerate execution and adoption.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, MDM, 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.