Our client is investing significantly in their Data Management & Governance consulting practice. The goal is to enable clients to achieve better business outcomes by governing and managing data more efficiently and implementing modern and innovative technology solutions. This is a high growth area and a high visibility role with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career. In this position, you will solve complex and unique problems for your client leveraging your expertise in working with modern data stack and ensuring data reliability, security and quality with an agile mindset.

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.

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
• Comfortable modern office in Prague 7, with support of hybrid or fully remote mode
• Benefit program (5 weeks of vacation, paid sick days, paid days off for special occasions, meal vouchers, flexi pass, Prague city public transport annual coupon, multisport cards, optional contribution to pension fund, health insurance for family member)
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) (subject to certain eligibility requirements)
• English language courses
• Czech language courses upon request
• Referral bonuses for recommended candidates
• Mobile Phone Tariff’s program for managerial-level candidates
• 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.