Data Governance Consultant

IntraEdge; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A data governance solutions provider in Charlotte, NC, is looking for a leader to define the product vision and roadmap for enterprise data governance platforms. This role involves managing data lineage, quality frameworks, and metadata standards while ensuring compliance. The ideal candidate will have strong agile delivery skills and experience with tools such as Alation and Informatica. The position offers competitive benefits and is crucial for driving data governance initiatives within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in defining multi-year product vision for data governance platforms.
• Strong leadership in agile product delivery across data and governance teams.
• Proficiency in establishing enterprise data quality frameworks and metadata management.

Responsibilities

• Define and own multi-year product vision for enterprise data governance.
• Architect and oversee automated lineage for data warehouses and BI tools.
• Establish data quality frameworks and govern metadata standards.

Skills

Data governance

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Data quality frameworks

Metadata management

Tools

Alation

Informatica Axon

Informatica IDQ

Job description

• Define and own multi-year product vision and roadmap for enterprise data governance platforms covering metadata, lineage, reference data, and data quality.
• Treat governance as a data product, defining KPIs, adoption metrics, and value realization.

Metadata Management & Business Glossary Architecture

• Design and operationalize enterprise metadata standards, business glossary structures, ownership models, and stewardship workflows.
• Ensure traceability between business terms, technical assets, reports, and downstream consumers using governance tooling.
• Govern lifecycle management of enterprise definitions, classifications, and certifications.

Automated Data Lineage & Impact Analysis

• Architect and oversee automated lineage across data warehouses, ETL pipelines, virtualization layers, and BI tools.
• Enable end-to-end traceability from source systems to regulatory reports.
• Support change-impact analysis, risk assessments, and audit evidence generation.

Enterprise Data Quality Engineering & Controls

• Establish enterprise data quality frameworks, including profiling, rule definition, thresholds, monitoring, and exception management.
• Define defect management workflows, root-cause analysis, and remediation SLAs with data owners.
• Produce regulatory-grade DQ dashboards and quality metrics.

Reference Data & API-Driven Distribution (Nice to have)

• Govern enterprise reference data standards and design API-driven distribution models for consistent downstream consumption.
• Ensure single-source-of-truth principles and eliminate duplication across systems.

Agile Product Delivery & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead agile delivery for large enterprise backlogs; write epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate work across platform engineers, data architects, governance leads, and offshore delivery teams.
• Manage release planning, dependency resolution, and stakeholder demos.
• Prepare governance artifacts, lineage views, and control documentation for audits and regulatory exams.
• Communicate governance posture and risk reduction outcomes to executive leadership.

Tools & Technologies

• Governance & Metadata: Alation, Informatica Axon
• Data Quality: Informatica IDQ, enterprise DQ frameworks