

KTek Resourcing
Data Governance Lead
⭐ - Featured Role | Apply direct with Data Freelance Hub
This role is for a Data Governance Lead with a contract length of "X months," offering a pay rate of "$X/hour." Key skills include Data Governance frameworks, Atlan, Monte Carlo, GCP integration, and AI tool interoperability. Experience in enterprise-wide initiatives is required.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
February 20, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Houston, TX
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #API (Application Programming Interface) #Metadata #Migration #Automation #Data Governance #SharePoint #Monitoring #BigQuery #Data Enrichment #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Data Cleansing #Data Quality #Compliance
Role description
Details of the job position:
Job Description:
• Proven experience operationalizing Data Governance frameworks, updating runbooks, and integrating Data & AI standards.
• Ability to define data asset certification processes, enhance governance structures, and align domain/sub‑domain models with access management.
• Skilled in formalizing and enabling Data Owner, Data Steward, and Technical Owner roles, including developing role definitions and delivering training.
• Hands‑on experience with Atlan and Monte Carlo for configuration, integrations, lineage build‑out, data quality monitoring, and issue remediation workflows.
• Ability to assess and improve AI/analytics tool interoperability, prioritize integrations, and establish standards‑aligned access and permissions.
• Strong capabilities in data quality reporting, KPI creation, root‑cause analysis, and ongoing governance compliance reporting (including Data Health Score formulas).
• Experience building and maintaining governance content hubs (e.g., SharePoint) and driving community engagement through training and enablement.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills to advise and consult teams on Data Governance best practices, standards adoption, and appropriate use of data tools.
• Experience supporting enterprise‑wide Data Governance initiatives, including standards harmonization, cross‑domain alignment, and coordination across business and technical teams.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with agentic AI for data cleansing, metadata improvement, and prototype/MVP delivery.
• Workflow & Playbook Automation: Ability to automate governance tasks using Atlan’s API‑driven playbooks (e.g., bulk tagging, glossary propagation, asset certification).
• Automated Metadata Enrichment: Experience using Atlan AI and agentic workflows to automate descriptions, README creation, and metadata suggestions.
• GCP Integration & Migration: Expertise migrating GCP/BigQuery tags into Atlan and automating the identification/prioritization of assets for ingestion.
• End‑to‑End Lineage Automation: Skilled in defining methods and building lineage across diverse tool stacks, including systems without native integrations.
Details of the job position:
Job Description:
• Proven experience operationalizing Data Governance frameworks, updating runbooks, and integrating Data & AI standards.
• Ability to define data asset certification processes, enhance governance structures, and align domain/sub‑domain models with access management.
• Skilled in formalizing and enabling Data Owner, Data Steward, and Technical Owner roles, including developing role definitions and delivering training.
• Hands‑on experience with Atlan and Monte Carlo for configuration, integrations, lineage build‑out, data quality monitoring, and issue remediation workflows.
• Ability to assess and improve AI/analytics tool interoperability, prioritize integrations, and establish standards‑aligned access and permissions.
• Strong capabilities in data quality reporting, KPI creation, root‑cause analysis, and ongoing governance compliance reporting (including Data Health Score formulas).
• Experience building and maintaining governance content hubs (e.g., SharePoint) and driving community engagement through training and enablement.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills to advise and consult teams on Data Governance best practices, standards adoption, and appropriate use of data tools.
• Experience supporting enterprise‑wide Data Governance initiatives, including standards harmonization, cross‑domain alignment, and coordination across business and technical teams.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with agentic AI for data cleansing, metadata improvement, and prototype/MVP delivery.
• Workflow & Playbook Automation: Ability to automate governance tasks using Atlan’s API‑driven playbooks (e.g., bulk tagging, glossary propagation, asset certification).
• Automated Metadata Enrichment: Experience using Atlan AI and agentic workflows to automate descriptions, README creation, and metadata suggestions.
• GCP Integration & Migration: Expertise migrating GCP/BigQuery tags into Atlan and automating the identification/prioritization of assets for ingestion.
• End‑to‑End Lineage Automation: Skilled in defining methods and building lineage across diverse tool stacks, including systems without native integrations.






