Director, Data Management & Security Advisory

Role Purpose

The Director, Data Management & Security Advisory leads DAI Consultancy's portfolio of client engagements across data strategy, governance, architecture, analytics, security and value creation. The role works with executive sponsors to clarify priorities, assess organisational capability and translate national data-management expectations into achievable transformation programmes. The Director provides senior judgement on engagement scope, delivery quality, risks, dependencies and the integration of business, technology, security and change considerations.

As a senior consulting leader, the role is accountable for the quality of DAI Consultancy's advice and deliverables, the effectiveness of multidisciplinary teams and the development of trusted client relationships. The Director may facilitate executive decisions and prepare recommendations, but formal approval, ownership and risk acceptance remain with authorised client representatives. The role also supports practice development, proposal shaping, team capability and knowledge transfer so that client organisations can sustain the implemented capabilities after the engagement.

• Lead DAI Consultancy's data-management and security advisory portfolio, setting a clear service direction and quality standard for client engagements.
• Advise executive sponsors on data strategy, governance, security, architecture, analytics, operating-model and investment priorities.
• Oversee current-state, maturity and capability assessments and ensure conclusions are supported by traceable client evidence.
• Direct the development of target operating models, transformation roadmaps, policy portfolios, business cases and implementation plans.
• Integrate business, data, technology, privacy, security, regulatory and organisational-change considerations across engagement work streams.
• Review major recommendations, architecture positions, risk assessments and executive deliverables before they are presented to clients.
• Establish engagement governance, quality gates, escalation routes and decision controls appropriate to the scope and risk of the assignment.
• Facilitate executive workshops and decision sessions while preserving the client's formal ownership, approval and risk-acceptance responsibilities.
• Monitor delivery performance, commercial health, dependencies and material risks across the portfolio and intervene when recovery action is needed.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with client executives, national stakeholders, delivery partners and specialist advisers.
• Lead proposals, scope definition, staffing decisions and solution design for complex data and digital transformation opportunities.
• Coach senior managers and consultants, strengthen reusable methods and ensure knowledge is transferred to client teams at handover.

• Bachelor's degree in data management, information systems, computer science, cybersecurity, business or a related field.
• master's degree preferred.
• An equivalent combination of relevant education and directly applicable consulting or implementation experience may be considered.

• Typically 12+ years in data, digital, technology or information governance, including 5+ years leading enterprise or public-sector functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, multidisciplinary data, digital, technology or information-governance engagements.
• Experience advising executive and public-sector stakeholders on investment priorities, risk, governance and transformation sequencing.
• A strong record of quality-assuring strategies, operating models, roadmaps, policies, architecture positions and executive reports.
• Experience managing consulting portfolios, commercial performance, senior client relationships and delivery teams.

• Enterprise data strategy, governance and operating-model design.
• Data architecture, integration, analytics and platform concepts.
• Information security, privacy, classification, resilience and technology risk.
• Data quality, metadata, master and reference data, records and content management.
• Portfolio prioritisation, benefits realisation and transformation road mapping.
• Public-sector governance, policy implementation and accountability structures.
• Executive performance measures, assurance and evidence-based decision support.
• Strong knowledge of the twelve Qatar Data Knowledge Case (QDKC) domains and their interdependencies.

• Enterprise data leadership.
• Government governance and policy.
• Risk and security oversight.
• Portfolio prioritization.
• Executive communication.
• Organizational change.
• Commercial judgement.
• Quality assurance.
• Talent development.
• Client relationship leadership.
• Executive-level facilitation, negotiation and communication.
• Structuring ambiguous problems and converting them into practical work programmes.
• Leading proposals, scoping, estimation and multidisciplinary staffing.
• Reviewing evidence and challenging unsupported assumptions or…