Job Description

Position: Sr Data Governance Consultant

Location: Jersey City, NJ (Onsite from Day 1)

Job Type: Full Time

Job Description:

• Must have a minimum of 8+ years of experience in Design, Development & implementation experience in Data Governance
• Must have worked in Agile development environment and familiar with Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum process.
• Assess current lineage, metadata, and data quality practices
• Perform sample attribute-level lineage analysis
• Identify gaps in lineage coverage and automation
• Profile data quality issues (accuracy, completeness)
• Define DQ rules, KPIs, and monitoring approach
• Recommend metadata/catalog strategy
• Define standards for lineage, glossary, and DQ.

NOTE:
This is primarily a Data Governance Consultant / Data Governance Analyst role with strong focus on Data Lineage, Metadata Management, and Data Quality Governance .

Recommended Job Titles

1. Senior Data Governance Consultant

2. Data Governance Lead

3. Data Governance Analyst

4. Data Governance & Data Quality Consultant

5. Metadata & Data Lineage Specialist

6. Data Governance SME (Lineage & Data Quality)

Core Skills Required:

• Data Governance

• Data Lineage (Attribute-Level Lineage)

• Metadata Management

• Data Catalog Strategy

• Data Quality Frameworks

• Data Quality Rules & KPIs

• Data Profiling

• Business Glossary Management

• Data Governance Standards & Policies

• SQL

• Tableau

• JIRA

• Agile / Scrum

• SDLC

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess current-state data lineage, metadata, and data quality processes.

• Perform attribute-level lineage analysis across critical data elements.

• Identify gaps in lineage coverage and recommend automation opportunities.

• Profile data quality issues and perform root-cause analysis.

• Define and implement data quality rules, metrics, and monitoring frameworks.

• Develop metadata management and data catalog strategies.

• Establish governance standards for lineage, business glossary, and data quality.

• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders in an Agile environment.

Good-to-Have Tools:

If having exp with these, they are strong indicators:

• Collibra

• Alation

• Informatica Data Governance

• Informatica EDC

• Microsoft Purview

• Atlan

• Apache Atlas

• Talend Data Quality

• IBM Information Governance Catalog

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