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Data Governance Engineer in Athens or Thessaloniki

Data Eng, Mgmt & Governance Team Lead/Consultant | Mid-Level | Full time
Job No. R00299515 | Multiple Locations
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ARE YOU READY to step up to the New and take your data expertise to the next level?

Through unmatched industry experience, leading technologies from our ecosystem partners and startups, and the largest delivery network in the world, we provide a powerful range of capabilities tailored to our clients’ most complex data and analytics needs. You will combine innovation, intelligence, and industry expertise with modern data technologies to help clients govern, trust, activate, and scale their data.

Technology is one of four services that make up One Accenture – the others are Strategy & Consulting, Song, and Operations.

WORK YOU’LL DO

As a Data Governance Engineer, you will support both Data Governance Framework implementation and hands-on technical enablement across the data ecosystem.

You will design, build, automate, and operationalize:

  • Data lineage (technical & business)

  • Data quality rules, workflows, and monitoring

  • Metadata management processes

  • ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration patterns

  • Governance dashboards and KPIs (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)

This hybrid role bridges business and technology: turning governance principles into real, scalable, automated solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Implement Data Governance Frameworks, policies, standards, and operational models

  • Configure and maintain data catalogs and lineage tools (e.g., Collibra, Azure Purview, Informatica EDC, Alation)

  • Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Informatica

  • Design and deploy data quality rules and automated monitoring using DQ tools and custom scripts

  • Develop governance dashboards and KPIs in Power BI, Tableau

  • Support metadata standards, critical data elements (CDEs), data ownership, and stewardship processes

  • Analyze and troubleshoot data quality, data movement, and source-to-target issues

  • Produce technical documentation, governance playbooks, lineage diagrams, and operating procedures

WHO WE´RE LOOKING FOR? 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related disciplines

  • 2+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Engineering, Data Quality, or Metadata Management

  • Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT tools such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Informatica and others

  • Experience with metadata and lineage tooling (Collibra, Purview, Informatica, Alation, Atlan)

  • Strong SQL and data modeling skills (conceptual, logical, physical)

  • Experience designing dashboards in Power BI and/or Tableau

  • Knowledge of data quality frameworks and DQ monitoring platforms

  • Familiarity with modern cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP a plus)

  • Scripting for automation (Python, Shell)

  • Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to collaborate across both business and technical teams

WHAT´S IN IT FOR YOU?

  • Competitive salary and benefits, including but not limited to: life/health insurance, performance based bonuses, monthly vouchers, company car (depending on management level), flexible work arrangements, employee share purchase plan, TEA Accenture, parental leave, paid overtime (if needed) and various corporate discounts

  • Continuous hard and soft skills training & development through global platforms & local academy

  • Career coaching and mentorship to help you manage your career and develop professionally

  • Ongoing strengths and skills based evaluation process

  • Various opportunities to develop your career across a spectrum of clients, industries and projects

  • Diverse and inclusive culture

  • Corporate citizenship initiatives (access to volunteering opportunities, charity work etc.)

  • Under our Brain Regain initiative, extra relocation benefits may apply

To learn more about Accenture, and how you will be challenged and inspired from Day 1, please visit our website accenture.com/gr-en/. 

Athens

Thessaloniki

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