# Sr. Advisory Consultant, Data Governance

**Company**: phData
**Location**: US - Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India.

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.

Key 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, 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.

## Skills

### Required
- data governance
- metadata management
- data catalog/metadata tools
- data quality tools
- communication skills
- governance operating models
- stewardship practices
- privacy regulations

### Nice to have
- data governance working groups
- stewardship councils
- data access provisioning
- integration patterns
- lineage capture
- adoption materials
- training guides
- playbooks for governance programs
- client-facing consulting experience

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