Enterprise Data Governance Architect

International Business Machines Corporation; Boston (KY); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting seeks a Data Governance Designer to define and operationalize governance for data products within a large modernization program. You will shape definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata to build a trusted, auditable platform.

Responsibilities include glossaries, lineage, quality rule design, and collaboration with modelers and engineers to align logical models with governance. Travel up to four days weekly is required.

Qualifications

• Must travel 4 days per week.
• Strong expertise in data governance, data analysis, or data management.
• Hands-on experience with governance tools such as Collibra, Alation, Purview or similar; plus 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 data modelling tools such as Erwin or ER Studio.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the business glossary, data elements, 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 with data product owners and engineers.
• Ensure data models (Erwin/ER Studio) align with governance standards.
• Apply governance policies in Databricks Unity Catalog and in tools like Collibra if adopted.
• Run governance workshops and stewardship forums with business and IT stakeholders.
• Support compliance, privacy, audit needs, and report governance metrics.
• Design and maintain data governance and data management processes for data quality and metadata management.
• Analyze stakeholder needs and craft communications to drive adoption of governance processes.
• Create metadata repositories capturing business and data quality rules; produce data quality reports and dashboards.
• Collaborate with technical teams to implement data quality rules and automate monitoring and reporting.
• Operate issue tracking and facilitate resolution of data-related issues with the client.

Skills

Data governance

Data analysis

Data management

SQL

Collibra

Databricks

Erwin/ER Studio

Documentation

Stakeholder facilitation

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Purview

Databricks Unity Catalog

AWS data platforms

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting seeks a Data Governance Designer to define and operationalize governance for data products within a large modernization program. You will shape definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata to build a trusted, auditable platform.

Responsibilities include glossaries, lineage, quality rule design, and collaboration with modelers and engineers to align logical models with governance. Travel up to four days weekly is required.