Principal Data Governance Consultant

About the role

Slalom is looking for a Principal Data Governance Consultant to help clients transform data governance into a strategic, outcome‑focused capability. You will work across multidisciplinary teams to design, implement and evolve frameworks, operating models and data‑centric processes that improve data availability, quality, security and usability.

Key responsibilities

• Assist in the discovery phase by conducting business interviews, mapping key processes and inventorying existing data assets.
• Collaborate with peers to develop or refine data governance strategies, frameworks, operating models and workflow processes.
• Define technical and business metadata, data lineage requirements, scanning schedules and implement data catalog tools.
• Assess data quality, create remediation rules, set metrics and thresholds, and automate monitoring.
• Enhance Master Data Management solutions by identifying key data elements, designing cleansing and enrichment steps, and establishing match/merge rules.
• Train and coach data stewards on data quality rules, policies, standards and proper data usage.

Required profile

• Extensive experience delivering data governance, data quality and master data management projects for enterprise clients.
• Strong consulting background with the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills, capable of leading workshops and coaching data stewards.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time.

Required skills

• Databricks Unity Catalog
• Microsoft Purview
• Alation
• Atlan
• Collibra