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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Governance Lead - **Company:** Rev - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $187,200.0 - $249,600.0 - **Contract:** Contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Database, Profiling, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Information Lifecycle Management, Metadata, Meta-Data Management, Metadata Repositories, NoSQL, Reference Data, Zero Trust Network Access, Service-Oriented Architecture, SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Data Classification, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Information Technology, Data Lineage, Data Management - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=702de7dfde227e0c ## About the Role * 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. ## Description 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. 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