Enterprise Data Governance & Data Classification Consultant

Required Qualifications: 13+ years in Data Governance / Information Governance / Data Management roles. Strong experience in enterprise data classification and operationalizing it across teams and systems. Hands-on understanding of security and governance controls: RBAC, DLP concepts, privacy/security alignment. Demonstrated ability to work with executives, security, legal/compliance, and technical teams. Excellent documentation and stakeholder management skills; able to drive adoption and change. Key Objectives Build/strengthen an enterprise data governance operating model (policies, standards, stewardship, decision forums). Define and implement an enterprise data classification framework that clearly distinguishes: Leadership / Executive data Customer / client data Internal organizational data Identify highest-level classification data and enforce the strongest protection controls (least privilege, monitoring, and prevention of leakage). Enable consistent classification adoption across platforms, data stores, and collaboration tools.