Data Governance Lead - Remote/Onsite, Part-Time

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

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.