Data Governance Systems Designer — Remote & Data Quality Lead

International Business Machines Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Data Governance Systems Designer to define and operationalize governance for data products in a large data modernization program. You will design data definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata to make the new platform trusted and auditable, collaborating with data engineers and business stakeholders.

This role requires hands-on experience with Collibra, Alation, Purview, Databricks Unity Catalog, and AWS data platforms, plus strong SQL and data profiling

Qualifications

• Strong governance, data analysis, or data management experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with governance/catalogue tools such as Collibra/Alation and Purview.
• Experience 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 tools such as Erwin or ER Studio.
• Experience defining and automating data quality rules, monitoring, and governance of unstructured and real-time 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.
• Collaborate with data modelers to align logical models with governance standards.
• Apply governance policies in Databricks Unity Catalog and 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 data quality and metadata management.
• Analyze stakeholder needs, develop communication plans, and execute communications to support governance adoption.
• Design and implement metadata management repositories capturing 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 resolution of data-related issues with the client.

Skills

Data governance

Data analysis

Data management

Stakeholder facilitation

Documentation

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Microsoft Purview

Databricks Unity Catalog

AWS data platforms

Erwin

ER Studio

Job description

IBM Consulting is seeking a Data Governance Systems Designer to define and operationalize governance for data products in a large data modernization program. You will design data definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata to make the new platform trusted and auditable, collaborating with data engineers and business stakeholders.

This role requires hands-on experience with Collibra, Alation, Purview, Databricks Unity Catalog, and AWS data platforms, plus strong SQL and data profiling