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IBM Data Governance Lead in Heredia, Costa Rica
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.
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 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.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.