Attain Partners is an innovative consulting firm dedicated to disrupting the status quo to change the world and improve the lives of those we touch. From strategy to technology and everywhere in between, our experts use their unique skills to advance the important missions of education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government clients.
People are at the center of all we do, and that’s why we empower career growth, provide industry-leading benefits packages, encourage a flexible work environment, and foster a culture of inclusion to support the needs of our team. We share a collective passion for our mission and our people. Guided by our seven core values, The Attain Way, our vision is the foundation of our culture—to be and attain the best.
Job Description
Attain Partners is seeking a Senior Collibra Consultant to lead client-facing Collibra implementation work across data governance, metadata management, data catalog, business glossary, workflow, and stewardship use cases. This role will be responsible for facilitating discovery and design workshops, translating client requirements into scalable Collibra solution designs, configuring and developing platform capabilities, and coaching client stakeholders so they can successfully adopt and sustain the solution. The ideal candidate is both technically strong and highly consultative, with the ability to communicate clearly with business users, data stewards, governance leaders, technical teams, and executives. This role requires strong soft skills, client presence, documentation discipline, and the ability to teach clients while also leading hands-on Collibra development.
Required Skills
- Hands-on experience architecting and developing solutions within the Collibra platform.
- Ability to lead client workshops for requirements gathering, current-state assessment, future-state design, operating model definition, and implementation planning.
- Strong understanding of Collibra capabilities, including data catalog, business glossary, communities, domains, assets, responsibilities, workflows, policies, lineage, metadata management, and stewardship processes.
- Experience translating business governance requirements into Collibra configuration, data models, workflows, roles, permissions, and implementation plans.
- Ability to lead hands-on Collibra development, including configuration, workflow design, metadata model setup, stewardship processes, integrations, testing, and deployment support.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to teach and coach client teams on Collibra functionality, governance best practices, stewardship responsibilities, and platform sustainment.
- Strong consulting skills, including active listening, stakeholder management, expectation setting, issue resolution, and executive-ready communication.
- Experience creating clear documentation, including workshop notes, requirements, solution designs, process flows, configuration guides, training materials, and adoption playbooks.
- Ability to work independently while also leading client teams, offshore developers, business SMEs, data stewards, and governance stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of data governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, business glossary management, data quality, metadata, lineage, issue management, and governance operating models.
Desired Skills
- Experience with Collibra workflow development, APIs, integrations, ingestion, lineage, Edge, or Data Quality & Observability
- Experience designing reusable Collibra templates, accelerators, playbooks, and implementation standards
- Experience supporting data governance maturity assessments, roadmap development, and governance operating model design
- Experience working with higher education, nonprofit, healthcare, public sector, financial services, or other complex data environments
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms and enterprise data ecosystems such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Tableau, Power BI, MuleSoft, Boomi, or Informatica
- Experience supporting change management, stakeholder adoption, communications, training, and governance rollout. Ability to support pre-sales efforts, including solution shaping, level-of-effort estimates, proposals, demos, and client presentations.
- Experience mentoring junior consultants or client team members in Collibra development and governance best practices.
Years of Experience
- 6+ years of experience in data governance, data management, metadata management, data architecture, analytics, or enterprise data consulting.
- 3+ years of hands-on Collibra implementation, architecture, or development experience.
Certifications
Collibra Solution Architect Certification
Additional Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients
- Experience supporting sales and business development
- Position requires flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs
Additional Information
Attain Partners values your mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing. Our comprehensive benefits package starts on your first day of employment and includes benefits such as:
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs
- 11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO)
- Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
- Flexible career paths – our career tracks provide advancement, mobility, and flexibility as you continue to grow with us
- A healthy environment where we value unique experiences, and care about everything that makes you, you.
Attain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual base salary for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Interested in this position but the compensation isn’t quite right? Let us know your expectations, and we’ll see if we can make it happen based on your qualifications.
Salary Range
$150,000—$160,000 USD
Attain Partners is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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