Sr. Advisory Consultant, Data Governance

Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises. We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results. Why phData? Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year) 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more) Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM You'll play a key role in helping clients embed governance and stewardship into their daily work. This is a hands-on role focused on executing governance activities, supporting metadata cataloging, and applying practical data quality controls. Just as important, this person will act as a communicator and facilitator—hel [... source excerpt omitted ...] ring rules are practical and adopted. Support the installation, configuration, rollout and adoption of governance/metadata tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Purview). Coach client staff on data stewardship practices—showing them how to govern their data effectively and sustainably. Communicate governance concepts in clear business language; prepare presentations, training materials, and adoption guides. Provide input on access controls, privacy, and compliance with regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business owners to embed governance into daily workflows, platform pipelines, modeling practices, and observability. Metadata T [... source excerpt omitted ...] s, search optimization) to improve usability and adoption. Configure governance workflows (e.g., DG asset approvals, stewardship assignments, issue tracking). Leverage and guide customers on AI-assisted features in modern tools (auto-classification, definition drafting, similarity matching, lineage discovery) to accelerate execution and adoption. Qualifications 5+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, or related roles. Hands-on experience with data catalog/metadata tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Atlan, Purview). Exposure to data quality tools and processes (Informatica, Talend, Ataccama, or equivalent). Strong communication skills: able to facilitat