Global Data Quality Specialist

Global Data Quality Specialist

Key

Skills:

Enterprise Data Quality, SQL, Snowflake, Tableau, more on DQ, not more in DG
Duration:
Short-term (6 months)

WHAT YOU’LL DO
In a world where Data is critical for BCG's success, BCG has founded the Global People Data & Technology Team, to create first-class, foundational global Data capabilities, products, and assets to achieve the following goals across BCG functions and teams:
Enable better decision-making
Generate new insights
Attain operational excellence
Minimize firm risk

As part of this Global People Data & Technology Team, the Data Governance team work to implement policies, processes, standards, and technologies to ensure data is findable, understood, trusted, managed, and useable (whilst also supporting compliance with laws and regulations).

Working closely with the Data Governance Director and Data Stewards, we are looking for a Data Quality Specialist to support the implementation of Data Governance capability in priority Global HR areas, particularly implementing Data Quality processes, further maturing our Metadata Management and driving cultural awareness of the importance of good Data Governance.

Our HR Data is fundamental to BCG’s overall priorities, from supporting digitalization of our functions to feeding the analytics and information for continued growth and success as a global organisation. For HR, Data Governance is a growing area of priority and influence with recent investment driving a renewed strategy and implementation plan. This is an important area for the organisation with significant scope for thought partnering and senior stakeholder influencing.

The ideal candidates will have a goal-oriented mindset and enjoy working with cross-functional teams to deliver Data Quality capabilities and support exceptional Data Products.

They will have 3+ years of experience in driving an increase in Data Governance maturity in large, highly complex companies and a knowledge of industry best practices. We are looking for candidates with a passion for Data Quality and implementing strategies that are align with organisational
goals. Finally, they should have good communication skills with proven experience in stakeholder engagement (including business and technical teams) with the ability to showcase the business benefits of Data Governance.

Among your responsibilities, you will:
Deliver on the vision and roadmap for our HR Data Governance Strategy Work to develop and implement Data Quality processes to support more proactive resolution of issues.
Evolve our current Data Quality implementation to make use of AI and emerging technologies (e.g. AI driven Data Quality issue detection) to stay efficient in our approach.
Enable further engagement with Senior Leadership through regular reporting and dashboards, particularly on our priority Data Quality issues, driving the cultural change that puts good data first.
Take ownership for priority requirements from a Data Quality or Data Domain perspective, working with the Data Governance Director to implement in a timely manner.
Support metadata management (alignment on definitions, capturing data lineage, capturing data classification, maintaining/updating HR items in data catalogue).
Support Data Access controls implemented for Global Data Products.
Work with the HR Data Governance team to continuously drive our HR Data Governance Strategy.
Understand any data opportunities from our customers, users, and business leads on HR data, especially our BI&A, HR, and Finance stakeholders.
Support sustainable delivery of customer value on the agreed Data Governance roadmap
Deliver on Data Governance priority areas (e.g. Data Quality) and deliver a cohesive action plan to ensure impactful value-add to end customers .
Track and report on specific and measurable aligned KPIs and key results, developing metrics to measure maturity and Data Quality.
Prioritise identified data opportunities clearly communicating with required stakeholders to ensure efficient delivery .
Proactively identify and escalate risks and mitigation plans, along with key decisions, to relevant stakeholders.

YOU’RE GOOD AT
Identifying the main gaps and…