Manager, Data Transformation & Governance

Grant Thornton; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data Transformation & Governance Manager to join GTech in Atlanta. This role leads governance across data migration, integration, archival, and analytics enablement for acquisitions, ensuring data is accurate, secure, compliant, and usable.

You will partner with business leaders, data owners and stewards, security, privacy, legal and risk teams to embed governance, quality, metadata, and compliant use within transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data governance for large-scale integrations
• Ability to embed governance into data migrations and analytics enablement
• Collaborates with data owners, security, legal and risk teams

Responsibilities

• Apply and extend enterprise data governance frameworks to acquired-company integration, covering standards, roles, ownership expectations, stewardship routines, escalation paths, and performance metrics.
• Embed governance requirements into data transformation and integration projects.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Metadata management

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data Transformation & Governance Manager to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below.

Manager, Data Transformation & Governance - Position Summary:

Grant Thornton GTech’s vision is centered around enabling scalable, secure, and repeatable data transformation capabilities that support enterprise transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and modern analytics. The Data Transformation & Governance function is responsible for embedding governance, quality, stewardship, compliance, and data standards into transformation initiatives so that data from acquired companies is accurate, secure, compliant, and ready for analytics and business decision-making.

Scope extends well beyond structured data. Every acquisition arrives with records held in mailboxes, personal and shared file storage, collaboration sites, chat history, service management platforms, and line-of-business applications, alongside the structured data in HR, finance, and client systems. Much of the firm’s retention and legal exposure sits in that unstructured content rather than in the database tables. This function is expected to see the whole estate, catalog it, determine how each category should be handled, and advise the integration teams accordingly.

The Manager, Data Transformation & Governance will lead governance activities for the integration of acquired-company data, ensuring governance principles are built into data migration, integration, modernization, archival, and analytics enablement efforts. The role commonly serves as, or directly supports, the assigned steward for integration data domains, carrying day-to-day responsibility for governance, quality, metadata, and compliant use within that scope. It partners with business leaders, data owners and stewards, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Privacy, Legal and Risk, records and retention stakeholders, service line quality groups, application teams, and implementation partners to define governance scope, establish quality and control expectations, support data readiness, and ensure transformation initiatives deliver trustworthy, governed, and usable data assets.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Apply and extend enterprise data governance frameworks to acquired-company integration, covering standards, roles, ownership expectations, stewardship routines, escalation paths, and performance metrics, and adapt them to entity-specific circumstances without departing from firm requirements.

• Embed governance requirements into