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CPS Engagement Manager

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AI Summary

This is a federal professional-services engagement management role responsible for leading Collibra implementations across a portfolio of U.S. government customers. The manager develops delivery plans, manages risks and escalations, coordinates cross-functional teams, and communicates progress and value to senior client stakeholders. The role requires experience supporting federal agencies, an active Secret, TS, or TS-SCI clearance, and knowledge of data governance, cloud platforms, integrations, and security standards such as FedRAMP and FISMA. It also includes identifying account-expansion opportunities while ensuring successful adoption, measurable outcomes, and adherence to public-sector delivery processes.

Role DNA

A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description.

Job Complexity

5/5
EasyHard

Pace & Pressure

4/5
RelaxedFast-paced

Autonomy Level

4/5
GuidedFull ownership

Communication Load

5/5
IndependentCollaborative
AI insightThe position combines complex enterprise implementation leadership with federal compliance requirements, technical data-management knowledge, and high-stakes executive customer communication. An active security clearance and substantial federal-services project experience significantly raise the entry barrier.

Salary analysis

Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles.

Estimated job medianMarket rate
$108,000
US market range$100k–$145k
AI insightThe disclosed base salary range is $96,000 to $120,000 USD per year, with a midpoint of $108,000. This sits somewhat below the broader estimated U.S. market range of $100,000 to $145,000 for experienced federal professional-services engagement managers with data governance and clearance requirements; additional commission-based compensation may increase total earnings.

Core skills

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Sample interview questions
Describe a federal implementation engagement you managed from planning through delivery.

I would explain the customer's mission objectives, stakeholders, scope, delivery plan, governance cadence, risks, and measurable outcomes. I would emphasize how I coordinated technical and business teams, maintained compliance requirements, and used regular executive updates to keep the program aligned.

How would you manage a customer implementation that is at risk of missing its objectives?

I would rapidly validate the root causes through stakeholder discussions and delivery data, document risks and dependencies, and create a remediation plan with named owners and dates. I would communicate the plan transparently to the customer and internal leadership, monitor progress through a regular cadence, and adjust scope or sequencing where necessary to restore value delivery.

How do FedRAMP, FISMA, and government security requirements affect your engagement-management approach?

They require security and compliance considerations to be incorporated into planning, architecture decisions, documentation, access management, and change control from the outset. I would work closely with security, solution architecture, and customer stakeholders to ensure delivery artifacts and implementation activities conform to the applicable controls and agency processes.

How would you translate Collibra platform capabilities into value for a federal agency?

I would begin with the agency's mission priorities, data challenges, and target use cases, then map relevant capabilities such as cataloging, stewardship, workflow, data quality, and governance operating models to those needs. I would define practical adoption milestones and outcome measures, such as improved data discoverability, accountability, compliance readiness, or faster decision support.

How do you identify expansion opportunities without compromising your role as a trusted advisor?

I focus first on helping the customer achieve agreed outcomes and listening for unmet needs, new initiatives, or adoption barriers. When additional services or capabilities clearly support the customer's objectives, I present an evidence-based recommendation, align internally with Sales and product teams, and ensure the customer retains clear ownership of the decision.

This analysis is generated from the job description. Salary estimates, role characteristics and sample answers are guidance, not employer-provided facts.

Joining Collibra’s CPS Engagement team

At Collibra Public Sector (CPS), our Professional Services team relies on Federal Engagement Managers to oversee the delivery of customer expectations for the services we sell, working directly with customer key projects leaders and executive stakeholders throughout the entire customer journey. They work closely with customers at various stages of their data maturity journey, from adoption to expansion to renewal. The Federal Engagement Manager acts as a customer champion in managing the installation, configuration and implementation of purchased products and technologies. They partner with clients to ensure they quickly understand product functionality and are able to optimize benefits and accelerate time to value. This is an exciting opportunity to work with large enterprises across the Federal business to support their roadmap and data programs with Collibra.

CPS Engagement Managera at Collibra are responsible for

Client management and communication

  • Manage services delivery across a portfolio of diverse customers / accounts.
  • Work with clients to manage the installation, configuration and implementation of purchased products and technologies.
  • Partner with clients to ensure they quickly understand product functionality and are able to optimize benefits and accelerate time to value.
  • Ensure clients have the process, technical and expert advice required in the early stages of product implementation.
  • Lead federal customer engagements ensuring mission-aligned consulting services are delivered that adhere to CPS’s delivery models, engagement processes, methodologies, and artifacts, while ensuring compliance with applicable government regulations and security standards (e.g., FedRAMP, FISMA, GovCloud).
  • Build relationships with senior level customer stakeholders, partners, and service integrators, ensuring a successful implementation
  • Successfully correlate Collibra product features to the customers’ use case/s.
  • Work with customer stakeholders to help clarify business objectives and develop solutions through the application of Collibra’s products, technologies, and services.

Planning and project management

  • Develop project plans based on the CPS Account Plan and on customers Initiatives and Use cases.
  • Assist the customer by understanding their particular concerns and challenges.
  • Assist the Solution Architect with the customer solution during the initial requirements gathering and work with the customer to suggest further functionality.
  • Provide federal agencies with tailored data governance strategies that incorporate best practices, enable knowledge transfer, and drive measurable business and mission outcomes.
  • Understand and effectively articulate, delivering required documented status updates, to customer and CPS stakeholders the project status throughout the services engagement.
  • Communicate implementation escalations, risk, issue management, and change management, on a weekly basis both within Colibra and to the Service Manager for the project.
  • Identify and drive value and measurable outcomes as part of an implementation project.

Advocacy and business alignment

  • Serve as a trusted advisor and liaison between relevant internal stakeholders including Sales, Support, and the customer, driving activities required for service delivery.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Engineering, Product, Support, and Executive teams to ensure alignment with customer priorities.
  • Understand the basics surrounding Collibra Platform, operating model, workflow, and integration capabilities.
  • Assist with the successful onboarding of new team members.
  • Provide product, solution, and process advisory in support of other team members.
  • Coach project team members during the course of service delivery.
  • Work with company leadership to define and continuously improve engagement and delivery processes across the services delivery organization.

Adoption and expansion identification

  • Identify opportunities to expand Collibra’s footprint by aligning product capabilities with customer initiatives.
  • Contribute to the growth of Collibra Public Sector’s services and licensing business through account expansion, strategic planning, and customer advocacy.
  • Help customers understand how additional technologies/features may increase value added.

You have

  • Because this role supports the US government, it is required that this candidate be a US citizen who resides on US soil.
  • 5+ years experience managing services projects in support of U.S. federal agencies
  • Knowledge in the areas of Data Governance, Data Management or Data Quality.
  • Hold an active security clearance (Secret/TS/TS-SCI)
  • Knowledgeable of at least least two or three of the following: data management processes, including data governance, data stewardship, master data management, data cataloging, and business rules management
  • An understanding of the leading PaaS providers, Data Lakes, Databases, and Integration platforms commonly adopted by federal agencies.
  • Experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure and platform.
  • An understanding of APIs via Java, Python, or similar scripting language for custom software implementations in Enterprise Linux or Unix environments.
  • An understanding of data warehousing, ETL, data integration.

You are

  • An effective communicator across business and technical stakeholders and able to tailor to different audiences.
  • Extremely organized with a high attention to detail.
  • Always customer-focused and personally hold yourself accountable for the customer’s success.
  • Self-starting and interested in learning new software.
  • Able to lead Senior Level project update, value assessment or business review meetings.

Measures of success

  • Within the first 30 days of employment, be able to
    • Present the services offering to your manager understanding the different deliverables and the value provided.
    • Present the Customer Journey framework to your manager understanding the different phases and roles and responsibilities within each phase.
    • Clearily understand the roles and responsibilities of all delivery personnel including an Engagement Manager, Solution Architect, Account Program Manager, Premium Support Engineer, Sales Engineer and Account Executive.
    • Work with the account team to build project plans aligned to each assigned account.
  • Within the first 60 days of employment
    • Navigate Salesforce including accounts, projects, and utilization.
    • Identify customers at Risk and build a plan to remediate.
    • Identify process gaps and inefficiencies within the services organization.
    • Advise Sales on proposed services engagements.
    • Build and present delivery plans for each assigned account related to the project plan.
  • Within the first 90 days of employment be able to
    • Build playbooks to address process gaps and inefficiencies within the services organization.
    • Execute remediation plan for customers at risk collaborating with the sales, support, and technical teams.
    • Understand and convey to customers how Collibra’s suite product capabilities and the projects being delivered provide value to customers.

Compensation for this role

The standard base salary range for this position is $96,000 – $120,000 per year. This position is eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers are based on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, and location.

In addition to base salary, we offer a competitive total rewards package, including bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.

Benefits at Collibra

Collibra recognizes and values that everyone has different needs, interests, and life goals. We built our benefits program with flexibility in mind to support you and your loved ones through a diverse range of circumstances and life events. These flexible offerings sit on a foundation of competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. Learn more about Collibra’s benefits.

We create inclusion and belonging through how we onboard, meet, connect, engage, and communicate. Learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion at Collibra.

At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.

With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. If you have a need that requires accommodation, let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

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