Data Governance Managing Consultant in Birmingham

You will join the Data Trust Capability in Capgemini's Insights and Data (I&D) business unit. Insights and Data is a global business unit covering Enterprise Data Management, Cloud Platforms, Enterprise Content Management and AI & Analytics. Our team is one of the largest and most successful Data Management teams in the UK delivering innovative Data Management and Governance thought leadership to our clients.

The Enterprise Data Management provides services on Information Strategy, Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Migration and Lifecycle Management. We help our clients build an enterprise-class data platform that allows them to move ahead in their journey of data and insights. Primarily working with leading software vendors like SAP, Informatica, IBM, Oracle et al, the team are first and foremost Consultants, putting client requirements and industry best practices at the heart of delivery.

The focus of your role is to drive Data Governance adoption across our client businesses by coaching and facilitating Data Governance forums (as defined in our Data Governance Framework). The Data Governance Lead will often act as a conduit into our client's Chief Data Office (CDO) and take the lead in driving data issue resolution, enlisting the support of the relevant Business Data Owners, Data Stewards and other Data Governance forum members, as required, by providing Data Management expertise and guidance.

The Data Governance Lead will be responsible for:

• Ensuring the Data Governance Framework and associated policies and processes are maintained and embedded throughout the organisation and ensuring they are compatible with the evolving aspects of Data Governance in the organisation.
• Identifying opportunities to improve the Corporate Data Strategy and Data Roadmap.
• Understanding and contributing to, as necessary, strategic group-wide business objectives and the data required to support business critical operations from an enterprise-wide perspective.
• Engaging with Business Units, Enabling Functions and Corporate Functions across the organisation to drive a culture of data management excellence, to increase awareness of and confidence in core functional processes with data dependencies.
• Acting as main point of contact for all Business Data Owners, Data Stewards and be the conduit into CDO, supporting demand management and planning for the data issue remediation processes.
• Leading the data management activities of the DG forums, who will oversee and carry-out the day-to-day data management activity.
• Supporting the training and development of Business Data Owners, Data Stewards and other Data Governance forum members in their roles.
• Providing professional guidance in data management practice to the business and maintain the resolution of data issues advising business units in the implementation of best practice data management regionally and locally.
• Managing and controlling the central definitions for critical data elements, business glossary terms and associated data standards.
• Maintaining the Business Data Owner and Data Steward register, ensuring sufficient data stewardship coverage across the enterprise, proposing updates and changes as required.
• Support the CDO in reviewing, proposing and developing any data policies required to improve data lifecycle management.

As a Data Governance Lead you will have had over 15 years extensive experience of the following:

• Working with C-suite executives and senior leaders across diverse industries and the enterprise functional areas.
• Implementing Data Governance Frameworks and associated policies and processes throughout large organisations and evolving aspects of Data Governance in the organisation.
• Engaging with Business Units, Enabling Functions and Corporate Functions across the organisation to drive a culture of data governance excellence.
• Establishing and leading Data Governance forums, that can steer, resolve escalations and carry-out the day-to-day working group activity.
• Working with Enterprise Data Governance tools and applications such as Data Catalogues, Data Quality Management, Reference Data Management and Master Data Management.
• Working with AI tools to accelerate the data governance outcomes, help manage the process and assure the validity of AI performance.
• Proven leadership in managing large, distributed teams, with hands-on experience in global delivery environments involving multiple stakeholders.
• Track record of delivering complex data governance transformation programmes.
• Strong data domain knowledge across key data areas such as Customer, Product, Vendor, Asset, etc. and a good knowledge of DAMA principles.
• A wider capability/understanding of applying data governance within other data management disciplines associated specifically with Data Catalogue, Data Quality, Privacy Management, Reference Data Management and Master Data Management.
• Experience in managing medium to large size teams.
• Experience of working with Informatica AXON data governance application an advantage.

Security Clearance: To be successfully appointed to this role, must be eligible to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

At Capgemini, we believe in bringing your whole self to work. Equity, diversity, and inclusion are woven into our everyday culture, creating a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress.

You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Capgemini is proud to represent nearly 130 nationalities and its cultural diversity. Our holistic definition of diversity extends beyond gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, race, age, and religion. Capgemini views diversity as everything that makes us who we are as an organization, including our social background, our experiences in life and work, our communication styles and even our personality. These dimensions contribute to the type of diversity we value the most: diversity of thought.