Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

Role overview Set the direction and lead the growth of a data governance platforms practice, building offerings and delivery capabilities that help organizations establish trusted data foundations for analytics, copilots, and AI agents. This is a senior consulting leadership position combining commercial ownership, executive advisory, and technical credibility. It is not a hands-on engineering role; you will guide specialists, challenge architecture choices, and connect platform decisions to business value, risk, and transformation goals.

Responsibilities - Own practice strategy, business planning, portfolio, operating model, investment priorities, and performance measures. - Define market positioning and offerings, and create demand with account teams, technology partners, and industry leaders. - Shape and win strategic opportunities through executive discovery, workshops, solution direction, and commercial planning. - Advise senior clients on data governance, privacy, security, AI governance, and platform choices across complex environments. - Guide technical leaders on architecture tradeoffs and explain value, cost, risk, and sequencing to executive audiences. - Build leadership, talent, reusable intellectual property, partnerships, and delivery governance; sponsor engagements and turn lessons into improved methods.

Requirements - 15+ years in data, analytics, cloud, security, AI, or enterprise transformation, including senior consulting, services, or practice leadership. - A record of building or scaling a consulting practice or major capability, with responsibility for offerings, pipeline, revenue, margin, talent, partnerships, and outcomes. - Success originating and winning complex data and AI transformation work with senior executives. - Executive credibility across data governance, metadata, quality, privacy, security, compliance, and responsible AI. - Ability to advise on Microsoft data, analytics, and AI platforms, including Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, and Azure services. - Strong architecture judgment, commercial skills, executive communication, facilitation, and ability to align business and technical stakeholders.

Nice to have - An advanced degree or relevant certifications in Microsoft technologies, governance, security, privacy, cloud, or responsible AI.

Benefits and work setup - Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.