Senior Consultant, Data Governance (Atlan)

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)

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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.

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

• 3–5+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with Atlan and other data catalog/metadata tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Purview).
• Exposure to data quality tools and processes (Informatica, Talend, Ataccama, or equivalent).
• Strong communication skills: able to faci