Senior Consultant - Data Management & Governance
EPAM Systems
Data Science
Bratislava, Slovakia
Posted on Aug 31, 2024
Senior Consultant – Data Management & Governance Description
We are looking for thought leaders possessing deep consulting and technology acumen to solve our clients’ toughest technology, strategy and transformation problems from a Data Management and Governance perspective through creating strategies and technology solutions. If you get excited about leveraging your experience and past successes with clients to realize their data North Star, this could be your opportunity to join Just-BI (Powered by EPAM) Data Management & Governance Consulting team in the Netherlands, which is a part of EPAM Global Data & Analytics Consulting practice.
Responsibilities
- Engage deeply with senior executives to define and execute Enterprise-wide Data Management & Governance Strategy programs and business-cases, often becoming the “trusted advisor”
- Lead Data Management & Governance assessments to help clients gradually improve capabilities from current state to the viable state of maturity by creating strategy, roadmaps and implementation plans
- Leverage your deep understanding of business and IT capabilities to build technology solutions for Data Management and Governance which help to innovate and create value across the client organization
- Provide end-to-end services from strategy ideation and use case elaboration to MVP implementation and further enterprise scaling-out
- Lead customer conversations and architectural teams to define modern Data Management architecture and developing practices to manage data through its lifecycle
- Support business development efforts, including proposal development, Statements of Work, and client presentations
- Create consulting offerings and reusable templates
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Information Technology or related discipline
- Minimum 3 years in a Consulting role leading Data Management & Governance initiatives
- Deep practical subject matter expertise in at least 2-3 of the following areas: Data Governance Operating model & Policies, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Metadata Management & Data Cataloging, Data Lineage, Data Compliance
- Understanding of data governance frameworks (DAMA, DCAM), methodologies, processes and how to implement them
- Experienced in building relationships with directors and C-levels stakeholders by developing a deep understanding of the customer business and driving data-driven insights
- Practical expertise in conducting maturity assessment and gap analysis and providing strategic roadmap and solution implementation guidelines
- Hands-on experience in running customer workshops and other collaboration sessions to discover customer priorities, understand current state, and determine maturity/readiness to execute on enterprise Data Management & Governance vision
- Expertise on industry & market trends with tools scoring model for selecting fit for purpose technology solution and tailoring and applying industry best practices at scale
- Extensive practical expertise with modern data stack, agile environments and high-end technologies
- Ability to work independently, manage small engagements with multiple work threads, or parts of large engagements
- Excellent verbal and written command of the English language, to drive client side discussions and draft concise documentation when required
Nice to have
- Experience in leading data transformation projects
- Technology expertise with one or several commercial or open-source tools, e.g. Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Ataccama, Azure Purview, Atlas, Talend, Soda
- Understanding of modern concepts as Data Observability, DataOps and Data Mesh
- Technology expertise in modern Big Data & Cloud stack: Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, etc
- Practical expertise in implementation of Data Governance for modern cloud data lakes
We offer
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, agile, software engineering culture
- Benefit program (5 weeks of vacation, 5 paid sick days, meal vouchers, cafeteria and recreation bonuses, reimbursement of glasses, contribution to pension fund)
- Referral bonuses for recommended candidates
- English language courses
- Great learning and development opportunities, including in-house professional training, career advisory and coaching, sponsored professional certifications, well-being programs, LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more
Certain benefits and perks may be subject to eligibility requirements and may be available only after you have passed your probationary period.