Data Governance Managing Consultant

Overview

Role Overview

Who you'll be working with

You will join the Data Trust Capability in Capgemini's Insights and Data (I&D) business unit. Insights and Data is a global business unit covering Enterprise Data Management, Cloud Platforms, Enterprise Content Management and AI & Analytics.

Our team is one of the largest and most successful Data Management teams in the UK delivering innovative Data Management and Governance thought leadership to our clients.

The Enterprise Data Management provides services on Information Strategy, Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Migration and Lifecycle Management.

We help our clients build an enterprise-class data platform that allows them to move ahead in their journey of data and insights. Primarily working with leading software vendors like SAP, Informatica, IBM, Oracle et al, the team are first and foremost Consultants, putting client requirements and industry best practices at the heart of delivery.

Job Description

The focus of your role

We are seeking senior, delivery-focused leader with strong client-facing experience to drive Data Governance adoption across our client businesses by coaching and facilitating Data Governance forums (as defined in our Data Governance Framework). The Data Governance Lead will often act as a conduit into our client's Chief Data Office (CDO) and take the lead in driving data issue resolution, enlisting the support of the relevant Business Data Owners, Data Stewards and other Data Governance forum members, as required, by providing Data Management expertise and guidance.

The Data Governance Lead will be responsible for:

• Ensuring the Data Governance Framework and associated policies and processes are maintained and embedded throughout the organisation and ensuring they are compatible with the evolving aspects of Data Governance in the organisation.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the Corporate Data Strategy and Data Roadmap.
• Understanding and contributing to, as necessary, strategic group-wide business objectives and the data required to support business critical operations from an enterprise-wide perspective.
• Engaging with Business Units, Enabling Functions and Corporate Functions across the organisation to drive a culture of data management excellence, to increase awareness of and confidence in core functional processes with data dependencies, to explain what the CDO does, what support is available and to encourage appropriate demand for the services that a CDO can provide.
• Acting as main point of contact for all Business Data Owners, Data Stewards and be the conduit into CDO, supporting demand management and planning for the data issue remediation processes.
• Leading the data management activities of the DG forums, who will oversee and carry-out the day-to-day data management activity.
• Supporting the training and development of Business Data Owners, Data Stewards and other Data Governance forum members in their roles.
• Support Business Data Owners and Data Stewards in establishing and monitoring the performance of data maintenance and governance processes within their respective Domains in conjunction with the CDO's Data Quality Analysis capability.
• Providing professional guidance in data management practise to the business and maintain the resolution of data issues advising business units in the implementation of best practise data management regionally and locally.
• Managing and controlling the central definitions for critical data elements, business glossary terms and associated data standards.
• Maintaining the Business Data Owner and Data Steward register, ensuring sufficient data stewardship coverage across the enterprise, proposing updates and changes as required.
• Support the CDO in reviewing, proposing and developing any data policies required to improve data lifecycle management

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Additional Info

What you'll bring

As a Data Governance Lead you will have had over 15 years extensive experience of the following:

• Working with C-suite executives and senior leaders across diverse industries and the enterprise functional areas.
• Implementing Data Governance Frameworks and associated policies and processes throughout large organisation and evolving aspects of Data Governance in the organisation.
• Engaging with Business Units, Enabling Functions and Corporate Functions across the organisation to drive a culture of data governance excellence.
• Establishing and leading Data Governance forums, that can steer, resolve escalations and carry-out the day-to-day working group activity.
• Working with Enterprise Data Governance tools and application such as Data Catalogues, Data Quality Management, Reference Data Management and Master Data Management.
• Working with AI…