Data Governance Consultant

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Heredia, Ulloa, Lagunilla
Hybrid
5-5 Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Business Intelligence • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Big Data Analytics
The Role
The Data Governance Consultant manages cross-functional initiatives, ensures compliance, optimizes processes, and delivers governance standards while collaborating with stakeholders.
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What We'll Bring:

This role will act as a key Consultant of the Data Governance team and is responsible for delivering complex cross‑functional initiatives, identifying technical gaps, driving KPI‑led processes, establishing new business processes and driving efficiency through process optimization. This role will partner and collaborate with stakeholders across multiple regions. The Data Governance Consultant will have the opportunity to partner and lead with construction and improvement of processes in TU’s OneTru platform.

What You'll Bring:

This is a remote position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities:

  • Program Delivery: Manages complex initiatives with minimal oversight; excels at prioritization, making trade‑offs, and navigating change.
  • Operational Process Creation, Optimization, and Execution: Ability to execute governance operations end‑to‑end—monitor and detect policy/control non‑compliance and drive corrective actions with accountable owners.
  • Communication: Delivers management‑ready writing and presentations; translates technical data concepts into clear business value.
  • Stakeholder & Teamwork: Influences across matrixed product, engineering, and data teams; builds trust and advances shared initiatives.
  • Curiosity & Problem Solving: Maintains an explorer mindset; rapidly frames issues, performs root‑cause analysis, documents findings, and implements preventive actions with high attention to detail.
  • Productization & Metrics: Improve measurement and outcomes.
  • Enablement & Change Management: Publishes and socializes governance standards; delivers training and practical guides; drives adoption via office hours, stakeholder engagement, and feedback‑driven iteration.
  • Data Management: Proven experience handling complex datasets (multi‑Tables; millions of rows).

Impact You'll Make:

  • +5 years’ experience in Information, Financial, or Shared Services industry.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer or industrial engineering, Information Sciences, or Business.
  • Experience in fast-paced platform operations, software development, performance measuring, and continuous improvement organizations.
  • Knowledge of JIRA Service Desk, Process Automation, Change Management and Agile Methodologies.
  • Demonstrable ability to work independently across a matrix of stakeholders, product, engineering, and operational teams.
  • Strong oral and written communications skills.
  • Technical & Operations: Proficient in SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL), Agile/SCRUM, and JIRA; drives process improvement and automation.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

TransUnion Job Title

Consultant, Strategic Planning

Top Skills

Agile
JIRA
Postgresql)
Process Automation
Sql (Mysql

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
13,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1968

What We Do

TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace.

We do this by having an accurate and comprehensive picture of each person.

This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world.

Because of our work, organizations can better understand consumers in order to make more informed decisions, and earn their trust through great, personalized experiences, and the proactive extension of the right opportunities, tools and offers. In turn, consumers can be confident that their data identities will result in the opportunities they deserve.

We make trust possible, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good®—it’s our purpose, and what drives us every day.

Why Work With Us

Our culture is welcoming, energetic and innovative. There’s an overall synergy that flows throughout TransUnion, creating a sense of unity in knowing that we’re all working to achieve the same overall goal. We’re dedicated to providing opportunities for our people to get involved and stay connected with their colleagues across the globe.

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