Senior Consultant - Data Management & Governance

About the Position

Senior Consultant - Data Management & Governance

Senior Management · Hybrid · Greece

We are seeking thought leaders with profound consulting and technology expertise to address our clients' most challenging technology, strategy, and transformation issues from a Data Management and Governance perspective. This involves crafting innovative strategies and technology solutions. This position offers a hybrid model, with 2-3 days per week working from the EPAM location office. EPAM is progressively enhancing its Data Governance consulting practice. Our goal is to empower clients to attain superior business results by efficiently governing and managing data as well as implementing modern and innovative technology solutions. This is a rapidly growing area and a highly visible role offering numerous opportunities to expand your skills and advance your career. In this position, you will solve complex and unique client problems using your expertise in working with a modern data stack. You will ensure data reliability, security, and quality with an agile mindset.

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
• 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
• Extensive practical expertise with modern data stack, agile environments, and high-end technologies
• Excellent verbal and written command of the English language, to drive client-side discussions and draft concise documentation when required

Nice to Have

• 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

We Offer

For your comfortable work:

• Remote and hybrid work opportunities
• Option to work from our centrally located office in Athens
• Corporate laptop provided
• Private health insurance
• Meal vouchers / restaurant tickets
• My Benefit card (264€/year)
• Monthly public transportation card

For your growth:

• Global and diverse client portfolio, large-scale projects, and trendy technologies
• Diverse multicultural, multi-functional, and multilingual work environment
• Opportunity to contribute to internal and open-source products
• Outstanding career development opportunities with a transparent career path and a roadmap to accelerate your journey
• Possibility to create a Personal Development Plan from the first day in the company
• Numerous opportunities for self-development: hard & soft skills internal training courses, mentoring programs, and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning courses, external e-Libraries
• Certification opportunities
• Knowledge-sharing with colleagues from EPAM's global tech and non-technical communities
• Language courses

About the Company

EPAM is a global software engineering and product development company with a focus on delivering innovative solutions to clients across various industries. Our commitment to excellence and continuous improvement drives us to empower clients to achieve superior business results through efficient data governance and management, as well as the implementation of modern and innovative technology solutions.