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Data Governance Lead Consultant

Enable governed, high-quality, and trusted data assets to support analytics, compliance, and operational processes across modern data platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Governance & Stewardship

Implement governance operating models including stewardship roles, issue management, and control frameworks
Operationalize governance through catalog, lineage, and workflow tools

Metadata & Data Catalog

Define standards for business and technical metadata across platforms
Integrate metadata across ETL, BI, and data platforms for traceability

Data Quality Management

Define rules, scorecards, and monitoring mechanisms for data quality
Implement validation controls across ingestion and transformation pipelines

Data Security & Compliance

Implement data classification, masking, and access control mechanisms




Ensure compliance with enterprise security policies and regulatory requirements

Data Lifecycle & Operations

Define retention, archival, and purge policies aligned to regulatory and business requirements
Ensure data lifecycle controls are enforced across data platforms

Delivery & Stakeholder Management

Act as lead consultant for data governance workstreams within programs.
Support tool evaluation and guide implementation teams.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or enterprise data programs.
Proven experience implementing data governance frameworks, stewardship models, and operating procedures.
Hands-on experience with data governance and catalog tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica Axon/EDC, Alation, Microsoft Purview)
Robust understanding of metadata management, data lineage, and data quality management practices
Experience defining data policies, standard

📌 Data Governance (India)
🏢 EY
📍 India