Senior Security Governance Lead (Ref: 5739)

Position Summary

Estrada Consulting, Inc. is seeking a Security Governance Lead to support a public-sector transportation data warehouse modernization project. This part-time role will provide governance, security, privacy, access control, observability, and operational accountability guidance for a modern data platform environment. The Security Governance Lead will work closely with the Project Manager, Data Architect, Data Engineering team, BI/reporting team, and client stakeholders to ensure the solution aligns with transportation agency needs, data governance best practices, role-based access control, identity management, auditability, privacy requirements, data cataloging, lineage, and ongoing operational controls. This role is intended for a senior consultant who can provide practical governance and security oversight for a data modernization project without requiring full-time project participation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide security governance guidance for the design and implementation of a modern data warehouse, analytics, and reporting environment.
• Support the definition of governance roles and responsibilities, including data owners, data stewards, system administrators, report owners, and operational support roles.
• Advise on role-based access control, including user groups, permission models, least-privilege access, privileged access, and separation of duties.
• Assist with defining governance expectations for data cataloging, metadata management, data classification, data ownership, and searchable data assets.
• Provide guidance on data lineage, including how source-to-target data movement, transformation logic, reporting dependencies, and downstream consumption should be documented and maintained.
• Advisory on privacy and data protection practices for transportation-related operational, ridership, customer, location, financial, or sensitive business data.
• Advise on audit controls, logging, access review, change tracking, report usage monitoring, and evidence needed to support operational accountability.
• Review technical design documents, governance deliverables, implementation plans, and operational procedures to confirm security and governance considerations are addressed.
• Participate in selected workshops or client meetings related to governance, security, access control, operational readiness, and support transition.
• Contribute to recommendations for sustainable governance processes that can be maintained by the client after implementation.

Required Qualifications

• Experience supporting transportation, transit, mobility, public-sector, or infrastructure-related data environments.
• Experience with data warehouse, business intelligence, analytics, data integration, or data modernization projects.
• Strong understanding of data governance practices, including data ownership, stewardship, metadata, cataloging, lineage, access controls, auditability, and operational accountability.
• Experience designing or reviewing role-based access control models for data platforms, reporting tools, or enterprise applications.
• Experience aligning platform access controls with enterprise identity management practices, including Active Directory, Azure Entra ID, SSO, MFA, or similar IAM environments.
• Experience with privacy, security, and compliance considerations for public-sector data systems.
• Able to review technical and governance documentation and provide practical, implementation-focused recommendations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work with business stakeholders, technical teams, security teams, and executive sponsors.
• Able to work independently in a part-time advisory capacity while producing clear, actionable guidance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with transportation agency data, such as ridership, fare, scheduling, service planning, operations, asset, customer service, or performance reporting data.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau, or similar technologies.
• Experience with data catalog or governance tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Azure Data Catalog, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting operational readiness, production support models, monitoring frameworks, or data platform observability.
• Experience with public-sector security policies, NIST-based controls, CJIS-style control frameworks, privacy impact assessments, or IT governance review processes.

Key Skills

• Data governance
• Security governance
• Transportation data
• Public-sector data systems
• RBAC
• Identity and access management
• Data catalog
• Data lineage
• Metadata management
• Audit controls
• Privacy controls
• Data classification
• Operational accountability
• Observability
• Monitoring and logging
• Data quality controls
• Access reviews
• Governance roles and responsibilities
• Cloud data platforms
• BI and reporting governance

About Estrada Consulting Incorporated

Estrada Consulting, Inc. (ECI) delivers technology-enabled services and solutions to clients all over the USA and British Columbia. We provide system integration, custom application development, data warehouse and business intelligence, project management, custom reporting solutions and consulting services to mid-size and large enterprises in all major industries. The Company headquarters is in Sacramento, California, and was established in year 2000. Visit http://www.estradaci.com/ to learn about our projects, managed services, awards and certifications delivering value for a range of businesses and government agencies.