Data Governance Consultant, Senior Associate

As a Data Governance Consultant, Senior Associate, unlock your potential and embrace the chance to drive meaningful outcomes that’ll elevate your career. We are seeking a Data Governance Consultant to support a client in the banking / financial services sector on a cloud migration program. This individual will be embedded directly within the client team and will play a key role in supporting data governance across a multi-wave migration from on-premises environments to Azure.

The consultant will help ensure that data governance considerations are incorporated into migration planning, implementation, go-live, and post-go-live enforcement. In addition to core data governance responsibilities, the ideal candidate should also be able to support broader advisory-type activities, including business analysis, migration readiness assessment, workshop facilitation, and cross-functional coordination. Your role will include, but isn’t limited to: 

• Support the definition and implementation of data governance frameworks, principles, policies, standards, and controls for a cloud migration program

• Help establish and refine data ownership, stewardship, and governance operating models

• Assess applications and data domains for cloud migration readiness, including governance, classification, quality, lineage, retention, privacy, and control implications

• Ensure data governance requirements are considered and embedded across migration planning, implementation, testing, go-live, and post-go-live operations

• Facilitate collaboration across business, risk, governance, and technology teams to support effective implementation and adoption of governance practices

• Support data classification, retention, usage, access, and control requirements in alignment with regulatory and enterprise standards

• Help identify and define data quality expectations, governance checkpoints, and monitoring requirements

• Contribute to metadata, catalog, and lineage-related requirements where relevant to migration activities

• Create governance-related deliverables as needed, including frameworks, assessments, process documentation, RACI models, standards, risk considerations, and executive/readout materials

• Gather and document business and stakeholder requirements; facilitate workshops; document current and future state processes; and translate business needs into governance and process requirements

• Support issue, risk, dependency, and action tracking across governance-related workstreams

• Provide practical advisory support to help teams make informed decisions in a regulated cloud migration environment

What You'll Bring 
Your skills, knowledge, and experiences are what set you apart. Here's what we look for:

• 3–5 years of overall professional experience

• 1–2+ years of direct data governance experience

• Experience supporting data governance in cloud migration, cloud transformation, or data transformation programs

• Consulting and/or advisory experience in a client-facing environment

• Strong understanding of core data governance concepts, including governance frameworks, operating models, stewardship, ownership, policies, standards, and controls

• Strong business analysis capabilities, including requirements gathering, workshop facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder engagement

• Experience assessing governance implications across application and data migration scenarios

• Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work across business and technology teams

• Experience working in a regulated environment; banking / financial services experience is an asset

• Ability to work in a hybrid model in the GTA, with 2–3 days onsite

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting cloud migration to Azure

• Exposure to migration scenarios involving applications and databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and similar platforms

• Experience supporting hybrid-state migrations, where applications and data may transition at different times

• Hands-on experience with or exposure to governance / risk / metadata tools such as:

  • IBM OpenPages

  • IKC

  • Microsoft Purview

• Familiarity with governance considerations related to data quality, metadata, lineage, privacy, retention, and regulatory compliance

• Banking or broader financial services experience is preferred but not required

Core Skills / Competencies

• Data governance and operating model knowledge

• Cloud migration governance

• Business analysis and requirements gathering

• Workshop facilitation

• Stakeholder management

• Structured problem solving

• Executive and working-team communication

• Ability to influence across teams without direct authority

• Coordination across business, risk, and technology functions