Data Governance Consultant

IBM
IBM

Tokyo, Japan · Heredia Province, Heredia, Costa Rica

Posted on Sep 30, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Data Consultant, Data Governance

You will design and deliver data governance solutions for enterprise clients. Depending on the engagement, you will either lead it as the primary governance consultant or own key workstreams within a larger program. You are the bridge between governance strategy and platform implementation: you assess the current state, design the target model, and turn it into processes, catalog configuration and controls that client teams adopt and run on their own.

What you will do

  • Assessment and design: assess governance maturity; define the target operating model, governance framework, policies and standards; build the roadmap and prioritization (CDEs, domains, use cases).
  • Operating model implementation: implement roles (owners, stewards, custodians), decision rights and RACI; facilitate the workshops that get them adopted; document procedures and standards.
  • Catalog and metadata: build the business glossary, onboard critical assets, document lineage, and configure stewardship and certification workflows in Atlan, Collibra or similar.
  • Data quality: define rules with the business, partner with engineers to implement them (Snowflake, dbt, Atlan DQ, Monte Carlo), and deliver scorecards and issue management through remediation.
  • Certified metrics: establish certified definitions and approval workflows for critical KPIs and reports.
  • Governance by design: work with architects and engineers to embed governance controls and metadata into delivery pipelines, and identify automation opportunities.
  • Adoption and handover: stakeholder mapping, communications, steward onboarding, training and knowledge transfer so client teams can operate governance independently.
  • Practice: contribute reusable accelerators (playbooks, templates, rule libraries).
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise

Data Governance Design and Delivery: Stron exprience in data governance or data management, including at least one client or enterprise engagement where you designed the governance framework or operating model and led its implementation.

Data Catalog and Metadata Management: Hands-on configuration of at least one data catalog (Atlan, Collibra, Alation or Purview), including business glossary, asset onboarding, lineage and stewardship workflows.

Data Quality: Experience defining data quality rules with business stakeholders and delivering data quality scorecards or dashboards used to monitor and report quality over time.

Technical Collaboration: Working SQL and experience partnering with data engineers to implement and automate data quality rules and monitoring on cloud data platforms (Snowflake preferred).

Stakeholder Engagement and Adoption: Proven experience facilitating workshops with business and technical stakeholders, and designing communication, training and change plans that drove adoption.

Issue Management: Experience running data issue management processes, from triage and root cause analysis with technical teams to remediation and closure.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Certifications: Atlan, Collibra or CDMP certification, or equivalent vendor certification in data governance or data quality.

Data Observability and Engineering Tools: Hands-on experience with data quality or observability tools (Monte Carlo, Atlan DQ, Soda, Great Expectations) or dbt.

AI and Master Data Governance: Exposure to AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001) or to Master Data Management initiatives.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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