Data Governance Lead

REV LLC; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

REV LLC is seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead to establish and operationalize enterprise data governance for a large-scale modernization initiative. The consultant will implement governance frameworks, stewardship models, metadata practices, and data quality standards across the organization.

The role requires collaboration with cybersecurity, privacy, and IT teams to ensure compliant data handling, escalation processes, and authoritative data sources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with CS coursework as part of the degree program.
• Minimum 7+ years IT experience in data environments and 5+ years in data governance leadership.
• Experience establishing enterprise governance frameworks and data stewardship models.
• Familiarity with data lineage, metadata, and data quality standards.
• Experience with Master Data Management and reference data concepts.
• Knowledge of privacy/security controls and regulatory considerations.

Responsibilities

• Define and operationalize an enterprise Data Governance Framework.
• Establish data stewardship models, governance committees, decision rights, and escalation processes.
• Define standards for data naming, metadata, classification, quality, ownership, and use.
• Establish accountability for major data domains across the enterprise.
• Ensure governance aligns with regulatory, privacy, security, and enterprise requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity to embed privacy, access controls, and risk mitigation.
• Define data quality rules, scorecards, measurements, and improvement workflows.
• Establish metadata management and data lineage practices.
• Support development and maintenance of enterprise metadata repositories.
• Facilitate communication among technical teams, stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.
• Support audit preparation, reporting, and compliance activities.
• Lead governance documentation and lifecycle-management standards.
• Lead data governance training, education, and mentorship.
• Support Master Data Management and authoritative sources of truth.
• Identify governance gaps, risks, and quality concerns; participate in design reviews.
• Provide recommendations to leadership on policies, standards, and maturity.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Data architecture

Metadata management

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Communication

SQL

NoSQL

Cloud data technologies

Data lifecycle

Security concepts

Documentation & reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree with CS coursework

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

ETL/ELT tools

Job description

Contract Type: 1099 Independent Contractor (Individual Consultant Only) | C2C: Not Accepted

Location: Remote, U.S. Based; must be willing and able to work onsite in Washington State as required

Schedule: Part-Time, approximately 20 hours/week

Compensation: $90–$120/hour, depending on experience and relevant certifications

Position Overview

REV is seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead to establish and operationalize enterprise data governance practices for a large-scale technology modernization initiative.

The consultant will establish governance frameworks, stewardship models, data quality standards, metadata practices, decision‑making structures, and compliance processes while ensuring data is treated as a trusted enterprise asset.

Responsibilities

• Define and operationalize an enterprise Data Governance Framework.
• Establish data stewardship models, governance committees, decision rights, and escalation processes.
• Define standards for data naming, metadata, classification, quality, ownership, and appropriate data use.
• Establish clear accountability for major enterprise data domains.
• Ensure governance practices align with applicable regulatory, privacy, security, and enterprise requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to embed privacy, access controls, and risk mitigation into governance practices.
• Define data quality rules, scorecards, measurements, and improvement workflows.
• Establish metadata management and data lineage practices.
• Support development and maintenance of enterprise metadata repositories.
• Facilitate communication among technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.
• Support audit preparation, reporting, compliance activities, and oversight communications.
• Establish governance documentation and lifecycle‑management standards.
• Lead data governance training, education, and mentorship.
• Support Master Data Management, survivorship rules, harmonization logic, and authoritative sources of truth.
• Identify data governance gaps, risks, ownership issues, and quality concerns.
• Participate in architecture and data design reviews.
• Provide recommendations to leadership regarding data policies, standards, governance maturity, and risk.
• Support development of data‑related KPIs and performance measures.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Bachelor's degree must include at least 12 semester hours or 18 quarter hours of computer science coursework.
• Candidate must be able to provide documentation verifying the degree and specific computer science coursework completed if requested.
• 7+ years of professional IT experience involving IT analysis, data analysis, data management, system maintenance, troubleshooting, or enterprise data environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on Data Governance, Data Management, Data Architecture, or comparable data leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or operationalizing enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Experience with data stewardship, ownership, custodianship, accountability, and governance decision‑making.
• Strong experience with metadata management, data lineage, data quality, and data standards.
• Experience with Master Data Management and reference data concepts.
• Experience with data integration, migration, profiling, mapping, cleansing, transformation, validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and cloud data technologies.
• Understanding of APIs, ETL/ELT, messaging, event‑driven pipelines, and service‑oriented architectures.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Understanding of privacy regulations, security controls, data classification, access controls, encryption, and Zero Trust principles.
• Strong understanding of the full data lifecycle, including ingestion, storage, transformation, consumption, archival, retention, and destruction.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex data governance concepts to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Must be comfortable working as an individual 1099 Independent Contractor.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite in Washington State as required.
• Must be able to complete required background screening, security training, confidentiality requirements, and system‑access requirements.

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Snowflake certification
• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
• Other current data governance or data management certifications may be considered.

Preferred Experience

• Enterprise-wide data governance implementations.
• Public sector or regulated environments.
• Enterprise Master Data Management programs.
• Metadata and data quality tooling.
• Large-scale modernization programs.
• Establishing data stewardship organizations.
• Developing enterprise data policies and standards.
• Working with sensitive or regulated data.

Engagement Requirements

This is a part-time, approximately 20-hour-per-week 1099 Independent Contractor engagement.

The engagement is primarily remote; however, the consultant must be willing and able to report onsite in Washington State when required by the client/program.

C2C submissions will not be accepted. This opportunity is for individual independent contractors only.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

REV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment and contracting opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status.