Lead Data Governance Consultant

Lead Data Governance Consultant
8 Weeks Contract role
Remote opportunity
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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