Principal Data Governance Specialist

Peregrine Advisors Benefit Inc. is looking for a Principal Data Governance Specialist to lead data governance engagements for clients in regulated, data-intensive environments. This is a senior practitioner role. You will own governance programs end to end, from framework design through technical implementation, and serve as the primary governance authority in client relationships. The right person has enough technical depth to do the implementation work and enough presence to lead executive conversations about it.

Peregrine is a Benefit corporation, legally committed to creating measurable social value alongside business performance. The work here is technically demanding and mission-oriented. Our clients include regulated enterprises, oversight bodies, and public sector organizations, and the data infrastructure you help build has real downstream consequences. Engagements change scope, clients shift priorities, and no two projects look exactly alike. The people who do well here are genuinely curious, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to apply their expertise in whatever direction the work actually needs.

Your starting point on governance is the question of whether it actually works in practice. A well-designed classification framework that never makes it into the tooling is just a document. A data catalog that no one trusts or uses is just overhead. You've worked in environments where the regulatory stakes are serious, and you know the difference between governance that holds up under scrutiny and governance that looks good on paper.

You're comfortable configuring Purview or working through a catalog schema, and equally comfortable presenting a governance roadmap to a CDO or walking a CISO through an access control model. You don't need the engagement to be fully defined before you can add value. When scope shifts or a client's priorities change, you reorient and keep moving.

The work will vary by engagement and change over time. The following describes the range of responsibilities you can expect to own across the practice.

Governance Framework Design and Implementation

• Design data governance frameworks suited to each client's regulatory environment, risk profile, and organizational maturity, including data classification models, access policy structures, and stewardship operating models
• Own the technical implementation of those frameworks through relevant platform tooling, making sure that policy is actually enforced rather than just documented
• Define user access profiles that tie organizational roles to data access rights in a way that is consistent and auditable, and that scales as organizations grow
• Build data quality and governance monitoring into client environments so that leadership has ongoing visibility into the health of their data assets

Data Catalog and Discoverability

• Lead the design, implementation, and adoption of enterprise data catalog programs, with the goal of making the catalog the place people actually go when they need to find and understand data
• Develop data asset documentation, curation frameworks, and quality scoring approaches that are useful to both technical teams and business stakeholders
• Build training and onboarding programs that get users into the catalog and keep them there, not just launch materials that go unread
• Work with data engineering and analytics teams to make sure governed, cataloged data flows appropriately into analytical and AI-enabled workflows

• Serve as the senior governance lead on client engagements, working directly with CDOs, CISOs, data leaders, and executive stakeholders
• Lead discovery and requirements sessions, and translate what you learn into governance roadmaps that are grounded in what the client can actually deliver
• Own the delivery side of governance work streams: scoping, planning, execution, stakeholder communication, and getting work to production readiness
• Handle shifting priorities without losing momentum, and help clients do the same when their needs or constraints change mid-engagement

• Build reusable frameworks, implementation…