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Data Governance Lead

IBM

IBM

Heredia Province, Heredia, Costa Rica
Posted on Mar 10, 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

As a Data Consultant specializing in Data Governance, you will work with data teams in the formation and execution


of data governance framework, policy, and standards. This role will help develop and

implement data governance principles within various business areas of our client organizations

in order to establish a unified, holistic approach to data governance and, ultimately, drive a high

level of data quality throughout the organization. Keys to success in this role are the ability to

build strong partnerships with business and IT stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have

professional data governance experience, strong business acumen, and will be able to leverage

these competencies to provide stewardship and oversight of critical data assets.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for people with experience designing and building enterprise data strategies for

implementation, integration and usage of data. The successful candidate will have experience

interacting with business and IT stakeholders to advance an organization's thinking of data

governance concepts, ability to explain the benefits of data governance policies and procedures

within the context of the business needs.

Required education
Master's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

● Elevant data governance or data management experience (operating model,

master data, metadata, data quality, data modeling and data standards)

● Experience leading the development of enterprise data governance

● Experience developing recommendations to improve accountability, quality, and

adherence to data policies, standards and quality improvement efforts.

● Experience in driving solution design and execution of data governance efforts that span

across business lines, technology, and platforms to address enterprise data needs

● Experience performing data audits, identifying data collection issues, suggesting

improvements and implementing fixes

● Experience defining and implementing data management frameworks that align with

overall business and technology strategies

● Experience with data governance and data quality tools such as Atlan, data.world,

Alation, Collibra, etc

● Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills

● Ability to create critical collaterals for client workshops and customer interactive sessions

● Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature

judgment

● Advanced English

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Data Governance Technology Expertise: Experience with data governance technologies for data quality and metadata management, including issue tracking processes, to support the design and implementation of data governance processes. • Advanced Metadata Management: Experience creating and implementing complex metadata management repositories to capture business and data quality rules, enabling effective data quality reporting and dashboarding. • Technical Collaboration: Experience working with technical resources to implement data quality rules and automate monitoring and reporting, ensuring seamless integration of data governance processes with existing systems.

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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