Senior Data Governance Consultant – Informatica CDGCHybrid Onsite · Newark, NJ · 3 Days Per Week onsite Rate is Open. C2C is fine.
About the Role:
We're seeking a senior consultant with expert-level Informatica CDGC skills to scan, catalog, govern, and publish a complex data estate spanning relational, NoSQL, API, and event-driven source systems. A significant portion of this work involves non-SQL sources (MongoDB, AWS DocumentDB) where Informatica has no native connectors, requiring a resourceful engineer who can assess available tooling and implement a viable ingestion solution. The consultant will also stand up Data Products in Informatica.
What You'll Do:- Design and execute metadata scanning across relational, NoSQL, API, and event-driven source types into Informatica CDGCImplement viable scanning solutions for MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB using Informatica tooling, ingestion APIs, and scripted extraction
- Catalog REST APIs and microservices as governed assets; integrate event-driven sources (Kafka, AWS Kinesis/SQS) for lineage tracking
- Configure connections across Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS S3, and NoSQL platforms
- Build and validate end-to-end data lineage from source systems through AWS S3, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BIDefine and publish Data Products in Informatica Marketplace for governed, consumable asset delivery
- Support curation workflows: classification, glossary association, profiling, and stewardship alignment
- Troubleshoot scanning failures, connectivity issues, and metadata quality gaps
- Document all configurations, ingestion approaches, lineage patterns, and Data Product definitions for team knowledge transfer
Required Skills & Experience:- Informatica CDGC — expert-level; hands-on production experience with scanning, cataloging, lineage, classification, and Data Products
- Informatica Profiling — hands-on experience running and interpreting data profiling to assess data quality, completeness, and patterns across scanned assets
- Informatica Data Products & Marketplace — defining, publishing, and managing data products
- NoSQL scanning solutions — proven ability to implement metadata ingestion for sources without native Informatica connectors
Non-SQL databases — MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB: schema structures, connection methods, metadata extractionAPI scanning — cataloging REST APIs and microservices as governed assets in Informatica CDGCEvent processing — integrating Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or equivalent into a data catalog for lineage and governance
Data engineering — strong Python and/or Java for scripting and ingestion work
Relational databases — Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQLCloud platforms — AWS (S3, DocumentDB, Kinesis), Microsoft AzureData governance concepts — catalog management, classification, glossary, stewardship workflows
Nice to Have:- Microsoft Fabric or Power BI lineage integration
- Atacama RDM or Denodo experience
- Financial services or insurance industry background
- Informatica CDI experience
