Senior Consultant, Data Governance

About the role

As a Senior Consultant, Data Governance, you will work with data teams in the formation and execution of data governance framework, policy, and standards. This role will help develop and implement data governance principles within various business areas of our client organizations in order to establish a unified, holistic approach to data governance and, ultimately, drive a high level of data quality throughout the organization.

Keys to success in this role are the ability to build strong partnerships with business and IT stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have professional data governance experience, strong business acumen, and will be able to leverage these competencies to provide stewardship and oversight of critical data assets.

As of April 2025, Hakkoda has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. IBM will be the hiring entity. This role can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Responsibilities

• Design and build enterprise data strategies for implementation, integration, and usage of data.
• Interact with business and IT stakeholders to advance an organization's thinking of data governance concepts.
• Explain the benefits of data governance policies and procedures within the context of business needs.
• Lead the development of enterprise data governance.
• Develop recommendations to improve accountability, quality, and adherence to data policies, standards, and quality improvement efforts.
• Drive solution design and execution of data governance efforts that span across business lines, technology, and platforms to address enterprise data needs.
• Perform data audits, identify data collection issues, suggest improvements, and implement fixes.
• Define and implement data management frameworks that align with overall business and technology strategies.
• Create required artifacts and deliverables for workshops, interactive sessions, and client acceptance.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant data governance or data management experience (operating model, master data, metadata, data quality, data modeling, and data standards).
• 5+ years of experience leading the development of enterprise data governance.
• Understanding and proficiency with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources, including at least intermediate SQL proficiency.
• Experience with data governance and data quality tools such as Collibra, Atlan, Alation, IBM watsonx.data intelligence, etc.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data Governance Process Design: Experience designing and implementing data governance and data management processes, including data quality and metadata management.
• Stakeholder Analysis and Communication: Experience conducting stakeholder analysis, developing communication plans, and executing communications to support data governance initiatives.
• Data Quality Rule Implementation: Experience working with technical resources to implement data quality rules and automate monitoring and reporting.
• Data Governance Technology Expertise: Experience with data governance technologies for data quality and metadata management, including issue tracking processes.
• Advanced Metadata Management: Experience creating and implementing complex metadata management repositories to capture business and data quality rules, enabling effective data quality reporting and dashboarding.
• Technical Collaboration: Experience working with technical resources to implement data quality rules and automate monitoring and reporting.