Data Governance Systems Designer — Drive Data Quality & Lineage

International Business Machines Corporation; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks a Data Governance Systems Designer to define and operationalize governance for data products within a large data modernization program. You will shape data definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata to make the new platform trusted and auditable.

You will document lineage, metadata, and classification across AWS/Databricks and SAP-sourced data, design quality rules, and work with modelers to align logical models with governance standards.

Qualifications

• Must be able to travel 4 days per week (mandatory).
• Strong professional expertise in data governance, data analysis, or data management, with demonstrated ability to apply governance principles in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, or similar governance/catalogue tools, along with Databricks Unity Catalog and AWS data platforms.
• Expertise in business glossaries, metadata management, data lineage, data quality frameworks, and governance technologies.
• Strong SQL and data-profiling skills, with knowledge of data modelling and tools such as Erwin or ER Studio.
• Experience defining and automating data quality rules, monitoring, reporting, and issue management, including governance of unstructured and streaming data.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the business glossary, critical data elements, data definitions, and data ownership/stewardship models.
• Document data lineage, metadata, and classification for data products across AWS/Databricks and SAP-sourced data.
• Design data quality rules, thresholds, and monitoring requirements with data product owners and engineers.
• Work with data modelers and engineers to keep logical models aligned with governance standards.
• Apply governance policies in Databricks Unity Catalog and in Collibra if adopted.
• Run governance workshops, issue-resolution processes, and stewardship forums with business and IT stakeholders.
• Support compliance, privacy, and audit needs, and report on governance metrics.
• Design, implement, and maintain data governance and data management processes for the client, covering data quality and metadata management.
• Analyze stakeholder needs, develop communication plans, and execute communications to support successful adoption of data governance processes.
• Design and implement metadata management repositories that capture business and data quality rules, and create data quality reports and dashboards.
• Collaborate with technical resources to implement data quality rules and automate monitoring and reporting.
• Operate issue tracking processes and facilitate prompt resolution of data-related issues with the client.

Skills

Data governance

Data analysis

Data management

SQL

Data profiling

Data modelling

Erwin/ER Studio

Collibra

Alation

Microsoft Purview

Databricks Unity Catalog

AWS data platforms

Stakeholder facilitation

Communication

Tools

Erwin/ER Studio

Databricks Unity Catalog

Collibra

Alation

Microsoft Purview

AWS data platforms

Job description

IBM Consulting seeks a Data Governance Systems Designer to define and operationalize governance for data products within a large data modernization program. You will shape data definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata to make the new platform trusted and auditable.

You will document lineage, metadata, and classification across AWS/Databricks and SAP-sourced data, design quality rules, and work with modelers to align logical models with governance standards.