Data Governance Lead

REV is seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead to establish and operationalize enterprise data governance practices for a large-scale technology modernization initiative.

The consultant will establish governance frameworks, stewardship models, data quality standards, metadata practices, decision-making structures, and compliance processes while ensuring data is treated as a trusted enterprise asset.

Responsibilities

• Define and operationalize an enterprise Data Governance Framework.
• Establish data stewardship models, governance committees, decision rights, and escalation processes.
• Define standards for data naming, metadata, classification, quality, ownership, and appropriate data use.
• Establish clear accountability for major enterprise data domains.
• Ensure governance practices align with applicable regulatory, privacy, security, and enterprise requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to embed privacy, access controls, and risk mitigation into governance practices.
• Define data quality rules, scorecards, measurements, and improvement workflows.
• Establish metadata management and data lineage practices.
• Support development and maintenance of enterprise metadata repositories.
• Facilitate communication among technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.
• Support audit preparation, reporting, compliance activities, and oversight communications.
• Establish governance documentation and lifecycle-management standards.
• Lead data governance training, education, and mentorship.
• Support Master Data Management, survivorship rules, harmonization logic, and authoritative sources of truth.
• Identify data governance gaps, risks, ownership issues, and quality concerns.
• Participate in architecture and data design reviews.
• Provide recommendations to leadership regarding data policies, standards, governance maturity, and risk.
• Support development of data-related KPIs and performance measures., Engagement Requirements This is a part-time, approximately 20-hour-per-week 1099 Independent Contractor engagement.

The engagement is primarily remote; however, the consultant must be willing and able to report onsite in Washington State when required by the client/program.

C2C submissions will not be accepted. This opportunity is for individual independent contractors only.

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• Bachelor’s degree must include at least 12 semester hours or 18 quarter hours of computer science coursework.
• Candidate must be able to provide documentation verifying the degree and specific computer science coursework completed if requested.
• 7+ years of professional IT experience involving IT analysis, data analysis, data management, system maintenance, troubleshooting, or enterprise data environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on Data Governance, Data Management, Data Architecture, or comparable data leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or operationalizing enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Experience with data stewardship, ownership, custodianship, accountability, and governance decision-making.
• Strong experience with metadata management, data lineage, data quality, and data standards.
• Experience with Master Data Management and reference data concepts.
• Experience with data integration, migration, profiling, mapping, cleansing, transformation, validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, and cloud data technologies.
• Understanding of APIs, ETL/ELT, messaging, event-driven pipelines, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Understanding of privacy regulations, security controls, data classification, access controls, encryption, and Zero Trust principles.
• Strong understanding of the full data lifecycle, including ingestion, storage, transformation, consumption, archival, retention, and destruction.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex data governance concepts to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Must be comfortable working as an individual 1099 Independent Contractor.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite in Washington State as required.
• Must be able to complete required background screening, security training, confidentiality requirements, and system-access requirements.

Preferred Certifications: One or two relevant current certifications are preferred and may be considered when determining compensation within the posted range:

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Snowflake certification
• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
• Other current data governance or data management certifications may be considered.
• Preferred Experience
• Enterprise-wide data governance implementations.
• Public-sector or regulated environments.
• Enterprise Master Data Management programs.
• Metadata and data quality tooling.
• Large-scale modernization programs.
• Establishing data stewardship organizations.
• Developing enterprise data policies and standards.
• Working with sensitive or regulated data.