Data Governance Consultant

This is a remote position.

- Define document and maintain data quality rules business definitions and validation standards for key reporting and analytics data assets

- Use SQL dbt and Snowflake to profile data investigate quality issues validate transformations and confirm data readiness for business use

- Partner with BI teams to ensure dashboards reports metrics and curated datasets are supported by trusted and well-understood data

- Monitor recurring data quality checks identify anomalies document root causes and coordinate remediation with data owners and technical teams

- Maintain metadata data lineage business glossaries and data issue logs to improve transparency and usability of data assets

- Promote data governance and stewardship best practices by educating stakeholders on data standards ownership and proper use of certified data

Required Qualifications

- Experience in data stewardship data governance data quality business intelligence analytics or data management

- Strong SQL skills with experience profiling data validating business rules researching discrepancies and supporting reporting accuracy

- Hands-on experience with dbt including data tests documentation lineage model review and transformation validation

- Experience working with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse platforms

- Understanding of data governance metadata management data lineage data quality dimensions and data lifecycle concepts

Technical Skills

- Advanced SQL for data analysis reconciliation profiling exception identification and validation of reporting data

- Working knowledge of Snowflake objects data structures query performance considerations and access patterns

- Experience using dbt tests source freshness checks documentation exposures and lineage to support trusted data delivery

- Ability to translate business rules into data quality checks validation queries and repeatable monitoring processes

- Familiarity with BI reporting datasets semantic layers KPIs dimensional models and curated analytics tables

- Experience documenting data definitions transformation logic ownership lineage and known data limitations

- Strong analytical problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate data issues across source transformation and reporting layers

- Comfort working with ticketing issue tracking version control and collaborative documentation tools

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting data governance programs data councils or domain-based data ownership models

- Familiarity with BI tools such as Power BI Tableau or Looker

- Experience with data observability data catalog data quality or metadata management tools

- Knowledge of data privacy security compliance and access control concepts

- Exposure to DataOps practices version control release management and change control for analytics assets

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and partnering with product managers analysts engineers and business stakeholders