Strategic Data Transformation & Governance Associate

Grant Thornton; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Employee retirement plan

Annual bonus

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data Transformation & Governance Associate to join the GTech team in a role focused on governance, data quality, and transformation readiness. The position spans structured and unstructured data, requiring coordination with data stewards, security, and implementation partners to ensure compliant, traceable migration and analytics enablement.

The role emphasizes governance documentation, inventory of the data estate, and handling of unstructured content such as mail,

Qualifications

• 2+ years in data governance, data management, or related enterprise roles.
• Experience supporting data governance, data quality, data documentation, data migration, or transformation activities.
• Exposure to unstructured content environments (mail, file storage, collaboration platforms).
• Basic understanding of records retention concepts, retention periods, and disposal.

Responsibilities

• Maintain data governance documentation for acquired-company integration.
• Support data migration, integration, archival, and analytics enablement workstreams.
• Build out the data estate inventory across structured and unstructured data.
• Record content attributes like category, sensitivity, ownership, and business purpose.
• Prepare summaries for migration planning.
• Review unstructured content for regulated or confidential material.

Skills

Data governance

Documentation

Stakeholder collaboration

Analytical thinking

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Informatica

Alation

Snowflake

Power BI

ServiceNow

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data Transformation & Governance Associate to join the GTech team in a role focused on governance, data quality, and transformation readiness. The position spans structured and unstructured data, requiring coordination with data stewards, security, and implementation partners to ensure compliant, traceable migration and analytics enablement.

The role emphasizes governance documentation, inventory of the data estate, and handling of unstructured content such as mail,