Data Strategy & Governance Consultant

Data Strategy & Governance Consultant

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Accenture Song — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 738,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients. 

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business, technology, and cross-functions to develop understanding of data requirements, challenges, and pain points

• Develop enterprise data operating model across people, process, technology, and governance

• Shape data strategy roadmap that leads to value realization, including investment plan and business case

• Lead independently small engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.

• Update data catalog and inventory with contextual information on data elements, definition, lineage, data policies, data protection, data access, data sharing, and data stewardship

• Maintain, grow, and modify as needed an enterprise-wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and trust through modifications to organization behavior, policies and standards, governance metrics, processes, and related tools

• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for key stakeholders, stewards of the client’s principal data assets

• Create and maintain data governance policies, playbook(s), processes, and procedures for guiding various data management processes, including the adoption of data security and privacy, data quality practices, and data dissemination activities

• Responsible for defining data quality checks and data reconciliation rules in partnership with technical data asset owners and data engineers to ensure data integrity is maintained during transit and at rest

• Engage with stakeholders across the organization to identify data quality needs, draft requirements, assist in the development of data quality checks, track, monitor, and report of the overall health of data in the organization

• Perform impact analysis of regulatory, business, corrective action plans, and system changes on the Enterprise Data Governance program, respective data domains, and relevant data governance policies and procedures within the context of enterprise data

• Assist with preparation of material for regular core team and key governance forums (e.g., Enterprise Data Governance Steering Committee, Data Steward Council) to review progress and initiatives with key constituents.

• Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approach

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