Global Data Governance Senior Specialist

Found in: Talent UK 2A C2 - 2 weeks ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom CORUS Consulting Full time

WHAT YOU’LL DO

In a world where Data is critical for BCG's success, BCG has founded a cross-functional team, the Global Data Product Portfolio (PP), 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
  • Minimise firm risk
  • As part of this Global Data PP, 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 Senior Data Governance Specialist to proactively drive the implementation of Data Governance capability in priority Global HR areas, particularly further maturing our Metadata Management, driving cultural awareness, and implementing Data Quality processes.
  • 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 organization. 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 organization 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 Governance capabilities and support exceptional Data Products. They will have 5+ years of experience in driving an increase in Data Governance maturity in large, highly complex companies and a knowledge of industry best practices. 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

  • Driving metadata management (alignment on definitions, capturing data lineage, capturing data classification, maintaining/updating HR items in data catalogue)
  • Driving the cultural change agenda; raising awareness regarding data governance principles; coaching relevant stakeholders
  • Facilitate Data Governance forums and workshops with relevant stakeholders to promote adherence to governance policies.
  • Develop and implement Data Quality processes to support more proactive resolution of issues.
  • Support Data Access controls implemented for Global Data Products
  • Working with the Global Data Governance Director, the Global Data Stewards for HR data, the Data Governance CoE, and leaders in the HR space, 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.

Ensure sustainable delivery of customer value on the agreed Data Governance roadmap

  • Deliver on Data Governance priority areas (e.g. Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Data Quality) and deliver to cohesive action plan to ensure impactful value-add to end customers
  • Clear narrative and articulation of Data Governance principles linked to business value-add, communicating these regularly to stakeholders across Data and HR.
  • 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

Support and align with the Data Governance community (Data Governance Directors, and Data Stewards) to ensure alignment and best practice sharing

  • Engage with the Data Stewards (particularly in the HR space) to ensure alignment and ensure consistency of the entire Data Governance strategy
  • Foster connectedness with key squads to ensure data opportunities and priorities are understood (i.e., HR, Finance, BI&A squads)

YOU’RE GOOD AT

  • Articulating the vision and specific business value benefits to be unlocked by an enterprise-wide data strategy, whilst setting and implementing the corresponding enterprise-wide Data Governance roadmap, working across multi-functional, diverse teams to materialise them
  • Identifying the main gaps and opportunities to pursue within HR data. Harmonising definitions and data flows across all functions and geographies and identifying global issues with critical data attributes/elements.
  • Implementing global Data Governance requirements, ensuring key capabilities and controls are implemented to enable efficient data use globally.
  • Leading activities related to the HR Data Governance strategy, including: Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Architecture, and informing Data Product development priorities
  • Sharing and adopting best practices, external and internal (across BCG Data Stewardship team) in Data Governance, Data Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Management and Change Management
  • Developing analytics, frameworks and KPIs to drive a step-change in Data Quality Issue management, Data Security, Data Profiling and Data Governance maturity
  • Ensuring adherence to relevant data policies, standards, and guidelines, and maintaining relevant Data Governance artefacts across the data domain (for example, the Data Catalog, classification, and data quality standards of data elements)
  • Communicating the importance of Data Governance for the success of BCG

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

  • Bachelor’s or higher degree, preferably in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related fields
  • 5+ years of experience working in data-related or project roles (e.g. Data Management, Data Governance, CDO Office or BI & Analytics team). Prior experience working with HR data is preferred but not mandatory.
  • Passion and interest in solving business-oriented data challenges end-to-end, with demonstrated precision and attention-to-detail
  • An understanding of Data Governance industry best practice is useful (such as DAMA’s DMBoK & CDMP, EDM Council’s DCAM)
  • Understanding of data strategy and management concepts and associated business processes and tools, including Data Modelling, Data Warehousing, and Data Quality
  • Strong customer and business focus with demonstrated ability to form effective working relationships and resolve conflicts
  • Hands-on experience using Data Governance tools such as Data Catalogs (e.g. Talend Data Catalog) and Data Quality Tools
  • Solid understanding of HR constructs and domains, data technologies (e.g., Snowflake) and core transactional systems (e.g., Workday, iCIMS, eightfold.ai, Oracle, SAP) will be beneficial.

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