Senior Data Governance Architect – Data Quality & Lineage

IBM; Paramus (NJ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is hiring a Data Governance Systems Designer to define and operationalize governance for enterprise data products across modern platforms including AWS and Databricks. You will shape data definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata for a large data modernization program.

You will run governance workshops, collaborate with data modelers and engineers, and support compliance, privacy, and audit needs across stakeholders. This role can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Qualifications

• Must be able to travel 4 days per week (mandatory).
• Strong governance, data analysis, or data management experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with governance/catalogue tools (Collibra/Alation/Purview) and with Databricks Unity Catalog and AWS data platforms.
• Expertise in glossaries, metadata management, lineage, data quality frameworks, and governance technologies.
• Strong SQL and data-profiling skills, with data modelling tools like Erwin/ER Studio.
• Experience defining and automating data quality rules, monitoring, reporting, and issue management.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain business glossary, data definitions, and ownership/stewardship models.
• Document data lineage, metadata, and classification for data products across AWS/Databricks and SAP data.
• Design data quality rules, thresholds, and monitoring with data product owners and engineers.
• Ensure logical models align with governance standards using Erwin/ER Studio.
• Apply governance policies in Databricks Unity Catalog and Collibra if adopted.
• Lead governance workshops and stewardship forums with business and IT.
• Support compliance, privacy, audit needs, and governance metrics reporting.
• Design and maintain data governance and data management processes including metadata management.
• Develop communications plans to support adoption of governance processes.
• Create data quality reports and dashboards; collaborate with technical resources to automate monitoring.

Skills

Data governance

Data analysis

Data management

SQL

Stakeholder facilitation

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

DAMA/CDMP certification

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Microsoft Purview

Databricks Unity Catalog

AWS data platforms

Erwin

ER Studio

Job description

IBM Consulting is hiring a Data Governance Systems Designer to define and operationalize governance for enterprise data products across modern platforms including AWS and Databricks. You will shape data definitions, ownership, quality rules, and metadata for a large data modernization program.

You will run governance workshops, collaborate with data modelers and engineers, and support compliance, privacy, and audit needs across stakeholders. This role can be performed from anywhere in the US.