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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr Associate, Data Transformation & Governance - **Company:** Grant Thornton - **Location:** Philadelphia, PA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $104,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Collaborative Software, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Databases, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Data Transformation, Data Migration, Data Retention, Data Security, File Systems, Document-Oriented Databases, Entity Framework, Identity and Access Management, Issue Tracking Systems, Information Management, Metadata, Meta-Data Management, Metadata Repositories, Power BI, Application Data, Workflow Management Systems, Data Processing, Snowflake, Information Technology, Collibra, Data Analytics, Data Management, Data Delivery, Servicenow - **Published:** November 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/sr-associate-data-transformation-governance-philadelphia-pa--f16a47cf-720e-4e12-9b20-226d66f44fae ## About the Role Mergers and Acquisitions, Stewardship, Regulatory Compliance, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Structured Data, Business Solutions, Database Technology, Legal, Financial Systems, Data Migration, * 4+ years of experience in data governance, data transformation, data management, data quality, data integration, records and information management, data privacy and compliance, analytics, or related enterprise technology roles. * Experience supporting data governance activities within data migration, integration, modernization, archival, analytics, or large-scale transformation programs. * Exposure to governing unstructured and semi-structured content alongside structured data, including mail, file storage, collaboration platforms, and service management records. * Working knowledge of records retention practice, including retention categories, retention triggers, disposal timing, and the evidence required to support disposal. * Understanding of legal hold and preservation obligations and their effect on routine disposal activity. * Experience supporting merger, acquisition, divestiture, or acquired-company technology and data integration initiatives preferred. * Working knowledge of data governance frameworks, data ownership, data stewardship, critical data elements, data quality management, metadata, lineage, catalog and glossary practice, retention, and governed data delivery. * Experience documenting data quality rules, profiling outputs, remediation actions, reconciliation activities, issue tracking, and readiness metrics. * Familiarity with data governance technologies such as data catalogs, metadata management platforms, lineage tools, MDM platforms, data quality tools, workflow tools, or data issue management capabilities. * Understanding of data protection and compliance concepts, including privacy, classification, access management, masking, retention, and internal policy controls. * Awareness of retention and documentation requirements arising from professional standards in an audit, tax, or advisory environment, or comparable regulated experience. * Ability to work with business and technology stakeholders, translate governance concepts into practical documentation, and support alignment across teams. * Strong organizational, analytical, documentation, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder follow-up skills. * Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; relevant data governance, privacy, records management, security, project management, or cloud and data certifications preferred. Preferred Experience * Experience operating in a professional services, consulting, accounting, or complex global enterprise environment. * Experience with governance and data platform tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Snowflake, Power BI, ServiceNow, or comparable technologies. * Experience with retention, classification, or eDiscovery capabilities across mail, file storage, and collaboration platforms. * Experience supporting data archival, historical data retention, legacy system decommissioning, or compliance-driven data preservation initiatives. * Experience contributing to governance playbooks, stewardship operating materials, data readiness checklists, data quality scorecards, issue management routines, and dashboard reporting. * Experience working with implementation partners, systems integrators, vendors, or consulting teams within transformation programs. * Experience supporting cross-functional governance forums, data decision groups, or working sessions with business, technology, risk, legal, privacy, and security stakeholders. * Exposure to cross-border data handling, including data residency and local privacy requirements. ## Description Grant Thornton is seeking a Data Transformation & Governance Senior Associate to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below., * Support the application and maintenance of enterprise data governance frameworks for acquired-company integration, including standards, roles, ownership expectations, stewardship routines, escalation paths, and performance metrics. * Assist with embedding governance requirements into data transformation initiatives, including data migration, integration, modernization, archival, reporting, and analytics enablement activities. * Build and maintain the data estate inventory for assigned acquisitions, covering structured application data alongside mailboxes, file storage, collaboration sites, chat and meeting content, service management records, and line-of-business repositories. * Catalog acquired-company content by category, sensitivity, ownership, business purpose, and disposition, and keep that inventory current as discovery progresses. * Prepare handling recommendations for each content category and provide them to tenant consolidation, application, service management, and end user technology teams in a form they can act on during migration planning. * Support review of unstructured and semi-structured content for regulated, privileged, personal, and client-confidential material, and document the handling, access, and protection requirements that result. * Track identification and assignment of accountable data owners for acquired-company data domains, maintain ownership documentation, and flag data domains where ownership has not been established. * Prepare and maintain approval records for new or materially changed use of data, and for external sharing and third-party access, so the approval trail is complete and traceable. * Identify data appearing in the environment without established ownership, registration, or approval, and route it for review. * Apply enterprise retention categories to acquired-company data and content, distinguishing records that must be retained from working copies, duplicates, and transient content, and escalate items that do not classify cleanly. * Document retention periods, retention triggers, and disposal timing for acquired-company data and archived datasets, and track upcoming disposal eligibility. * Support defensible disposal activities by preparing schedules, gathering approvals, and capturing evidence of completion. * Verify legal hold and business hold status before disposal, decommissioning, or archival activity proceeds, and maintain records of holds applicable to acquired-entity data through to release. * Document circumstances that extend retention beyond standard periods, including inherited contractual commitments, audit and investigation activity, and content with long-term business value, and prepare exception or extension requests where requirements cannot be met. * Support coordination with service line quality and risk stakeholders on which acquired-entity records must be retained to satisfy professional standards for audit, tax, and advisory work, and reflect those determinations in working documentation. * Capture jurisdictional differences across assigned entities, including local privacy, data residency, and statutory retention requirements, and flag conflicts with enterprise requirements. * Support data quality and standardization activities by documenting data quality rules, profiling outputs, root-cause findings, remediation actions, reconciliation expectations, and quality gate evidence. * Help standardize data definitions, formats, critical data elements, metadata, lineage information, and ownership documentation across acquired-company sources and enterprise target-state platforms. * Maintain catalog and business glossary entries for acquired-company data domains so consumers can determine meaning, context, provenance, and appropriate use. * Support data stewardship activities by maintaining steward and owner documentation, tracking assigned stewardship actions, coordinating follow-ups, and helping promote accountability for data assets. * Assist with adoption and use of governance technologies such as data catalog, metadata management, lineage, data quality, master data management, and data issue management tools. * Work with IT, data platform teams, and vendors to document governance technology requirements, support pilots, validate tool outputs, and contribute to rollout materials. * Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to help document data protection controls, classification, access control, masking, retention, and disposal requirements. * Prepare governance reporting and metrics, including data quality scores, policy adherence, stewardship engagement, remediation progress, issue aging, readiness gate status, and governance maturity inputs. * Create dashboards, status updates, meeting materials, and issue logs that communicate governance progress, risks, readiness, decisions needed, and business value. * Facilitate or support cross-functional working sessions to align transformation activities with governance requirements and ensure data decisions are traceable and documented. * Support source-to-target mapping, lineage, reconciliation, data issue resolution, and integration readiness activities during acquired-company data transformation efforts. * Promote consistent governance practices by communicating expectations, maintaining documentation, and helping teams understand the value of trusted, compliant, and reusable data. * Identify opportunities to improve governance work products, data quality controls, stewardship routines, metadata practices, reporting, and repeatable transformation delivery practices. * Other duties as assigned., * Assigned governance activities are completed for acquired-company data integration, migration, archival, modernization, and analytics enablement workstreams. * The data estate inventory for assigned entities is accurate, current, and complete enough for integration teams to plan against, covering structured systems and unstructured content. * Ownership documentation and approval records are complete and traceable for assigned scope. * Retention classification, retention triggers, and disposal timing are documented for assigned data and content, with items that do not classify cleanly escalated rather than assumed. * Hold status is verified and documented before disposal, decommissioning, or archival activity proceeds. * Critical data assets have documented owners, stewards, definitions, metadata, quality expectations, lineage, and operating controls for assigned scope. * Data quality, reconciliation, issue resolution, and readiness metrics are documented, tracked, and available to support transformation decisions. * Business and technology stakeholders have clear documentation and reporting on governance risks, progress, decisions, and readiness for assigned work.