Senior Data Governance Consultant

Due to continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Governance Consultant to join our professional services division and support our clients.

Your expertise will navigate clients through data governance intricacies, unlocking insights and driving informed decisions.

A Day in the Life of a Senior Data Governance Consultant:

• Required to work closely with the client's Governance team on the prioritised subdomains, forging strong relationships with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and SMEs across the business.
• Create a Data Owners onboarding pack detailing the role and process to set up data governance in their area.
• Host a kick-off meeting with each Data Owner to explain the goals of the program, their role and the next steps.
• Attend multiple workshops with the Data Owner to identify and prioritise their critical data assets (based on definitions of critical data).
• Create a tracking system to monitor Data Governance progress across agreed critical data sets.
• Set up ways of working with Data Owners to include regular forum/touch points with Data Stewards and a process for escalating and tracking issues.
• Support the formation of a Data Governance team in the domain including team structure, role description, technical interview pack, candidate review and onboarding new team.
• Attend a workshop with process teams and Data Users to identify Data Stewards and Data Custodians for call critical data sets.
• Onboard each Steward to ensure they understand and accept responsibilities and are aware of available support.
• Train and support the Stewards to facilitate Data Cataloguing & Business Glossary.

Requirements

Expertise in embedding data Governance programs within medium to large organisations, preferably engineering and manufacturing businesses along the lines of the following:

• Experience in leading engagement with businesses to drive the use of data governance and management solutions to derive value and improvements.
• Proficient in data management best practices and guiding business SMEs as well as data engineering and cloud engineering teams on the direction to follow.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, including being able to communicate difficult, technical concepts to a business audience.
• Experience leading the definition and rollout of effective, auditable data governance and management controls for business adoption as well as for Data Engineering and Cloud implementations at scale.
• Experience using data management technologies such as metadata management, data catalogue and data lineage, data profiling and quality management, data error prevention and notification, data retention and tokenization etc.
• Required to be in the Aiimi office one day per week and on-site with the client when requested.

• 25 Days holiday (excluding bank holidays) – increasing by a day every 2 years
• Flexible working
• Promote training and personal development
• Bi-annual company retreats