Senior Data Governance Specialist (Hands-on / Business-Facing)

WHAT WE DO Founded in 2007, Growth Acceleration Partners (GAP) is a consulting and technology services company. We consult, design, build and modernize revenue-generating software and data engineering solutions for clients.

With modernization services and AI tools, we help businesses achieve a competitive advantage through technology. GAP’s remote, integrated engineering teams use end-to-end solutions to innovate and align with your business goals. We have 600+ English-speaking engineers based in Latin America and approximately 20 U. S.

-based engineers. With some of the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry, GAP’s focus is customer and employee success. GAP is a woman-owned company headquartered in Austin Texas.

We are a values-based company focused on growing our people by investing in education, onsite English classes and training in the latest technologies, including AI, data analytics and machine learning.

Our goal is to provide solutions for our customers that help them achieve critical business outcomes, while enabling our GAPSters and our communities to attain long-term success.

Summary We are looking for a Senior Data Governance Specialist to support the execution and day-to-day delivery of data governance initiatives within a financial services organization. This role is highly hands-on and business-facing.

You will work closely with business stakeholders, data owners, and technical teams to understand the current data landscape, including existing data infrastructure, resources and products, identify gaps, and help deliver concrete governance outcomes—such as enriched data catalogs, defined ownership, and actionable data quality improvements.

This is not a purely strategic role. The ideal candidate is someone who can roll up their sleeves, actively contribute to deliverables using industry-standard tools to perform exploration, orchestration and other data management tasks, and translate conversations with the business into clear actions, doc