Senior Consultant, Data Governance/MDM

JoinphData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.

We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.

Why phData?

• Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year
• AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network
• 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year)
• 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status
• 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year
• Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network
• #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications
• 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)
• 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

• Support the design of tailored data governance programs, with recommendations on processes, team structure, decision rights and boundaries.
• Design policies and controls for effective data governance execution.
• Bring a modern perspective on the design and rollout of data governance.
• Communicate governance concepts in clear business language; prepare presentations, training materials, and adoption guides.
• 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.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, and MDM roles.
• Hands-on experience with MDM tools (Semarchy, Profisee, Informatica, or equivalent).
• Exposure to data quality tools and processes (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
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Willingness to travel up to 50% per month (10 of 20 business days) when required by our clients

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.

phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at phData. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at People Operations.

Originally posted on Himalayas