Senior Collibra Implementation Consultant

Attain Partners is an innovative consulting firm dedicated to disrupting the status quo to change the world and improve the lives of those we touch. From strategy to technology and everywhere in between, our experts use their unique skills to advance the important missions of education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government clients. People are at the center of all we do, and that’s why we empower career growth, provide industry-leading benefits packages, encourage a flexible work environment, and foster a culture of inclusion to support the needs of our team.

About the role

Attain Partners is seeking a Senior Collibra Consultant to lead client-facing Collibra implementation work across data governance, metadata management, data catalog, business glossary, workflow, and stewardship use cases. This role will be responsible for facilitating discovery and design workshops, translating client requirements into scalable Collibra solution designs, configuring and developing platform capabilities, and coaching client stakeholders so they can successfully adopt and sustain the solution. The ideal candidate is both technically strong and highly consultative, with the ability to communicate clearly with business users, data stewards, governance leaders, technical teams, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead client workshops for requirements gathering, current-state assessment, future-state design, operating model definition, and implementation planning.
• Translate business governance requirements into Collibra configuration, data models, workflows, roles, permissions, and implementation plans.
• Lead hands-on Collibra development, including configuration, workflow design, metadata model setup, stewardship processes, integrations, testing, and deployment support.
• Facilitate and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Teach and coach client teams on Collibra functionality, governance best practices, stewardship responsibilities, and platform sustainment.
• Create clear documentation, including workshop notes, requirements, solution designs, process flows, configuration guides, training materials, and adoption playbooks.
• Work independently while also leading client teams, offshore developers, business SMEs, data stewards, and governance stakeholders.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data governance, data management, metadata management, data architecture, analytics, or enterprise data consulting.
• 3+ years of hands-on Collibra implementation, architecture, or development experience.
• Hands-on experience architecting and developing solutions within the Collibra platform.
• Strong understanding of Collibra capabilities, including data catalog, business glossary, communities, domains, assets, responsibilities, workflows, policies, lineage, metadata management, and stewardship processes.
• Strong consulting skills, including active listening, stakeholder management, expectation setting, issue resolution, and executive-ready communication.
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, business glossary management, data quality, metadata, lineage, issue management, and governance operating models.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients.
• Flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs.

Qualifications

• Collibra Solution Architect Certification.

Desired Skills

• Experience with Collibra workflow development, APIs, integrations, ingestion, lineage, Edge, or Data Quality & Observability.
• Experience designing reusable Collibra templates, accelerators, playbooks, and implementation standards.
• Experience supporting data governance maturity assessments, roadmap development, and governance operating model design.
• Experience working with higher education, nonprofit, healthcare, public sector, financial services, or other complex data environments.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and enterprise data ecosystems such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Tableau, Power BI, MuleSoft, Boomi, or Informatica.
• Experience supporting change management, stakeholder adoption, communications, training, and governance rollout.
• Ability to support pre-sales efforts, including solution shaping, level-of-effort estimates, proposals, demos, and client presentations.
• Experience mentoring junior consultants or client team members in Collibra development and governance best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs.
• 11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO).
• Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
• Flexible career paths with advancement, mobility, and flexibility.

Pay

The individual base salary for this position is $150,000—$160,000 USD, commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.