Business Data Governance Consultant

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Business Data Governance Consultant

Full Time / Permanent

£60k-£105k + Generous Benefits Package (various roles available at different levels)

UK Wide office locations to choose

UK you can choose from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Wales, Liverpool or Sheffield (remote for now)

Flexi Working Available

As a trusted, approved and preferred recruitment partner to this prestigious consultancy organisation, we have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a number of Business Data Governance Consultants at various levels of experience. Our client offers excellence in career growth, professional development and a coveted personalised benefits package.

This role is a unique chance to work?alongside some of the top experts in the country, on some of the largest and most complex client engagements across a variety of industry sectors. You will be given the opportunity to develop and grow - taking on responsibility from day one in a challenging but rewarding and meritocratic environment. The right candidate will quickly rise to senior positions on projects and within the practice.

Data Governance, as opposed to other, more technical Information Management disciplines within our Insights & Data practice such as DQ, MDM, BI or Data Integration, is primarily focused on the Business side of our client organizations and frequently deals with senior executives, sometimes at Board level.

Duties & Responsibilities

*Advise clients on how to build and run an effective data governance program, using our proprietary framework, methodology, templates and best practice.

*Assess & measure As-Is maturity, identify desired To-Be state and develop a plan and roadmap leading to agreed targets.

*Develop, set up or improve a suitable governance organization.

*Conduct stakeholder interviews and workshops to identify a holistic set of governance workstreams across all capabilities and data domains in scope.

*Host working meetings and use them to discuss and agree common standards, policies etc.

*Show data dashboards to senior executives to enable them to take remediation steps.

*Explore the client's need and willingness to invest into a Data Governance Management tool

We are keen to see candidates with a good mix of the following:

*Data Governance experience, e.g. in Data Architecture/Data Modelling, Metadata Management, Reference Data Management, Business Glossaries, Data Dictionaries, Data Quality, Information Lifecycle Management. Information Strategy experience welcome.

*Experience in client-facing roles for Senior Data Governance Consultants including data management and/or Business Analysis.

*Meeting facilitation and negotiation skills (face-to-face and in conference calls).

*Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

*Management and leadership experience

*Experience in navigating corporate/office politics

*Proactive self-starter

*Sharp mind, smart thinking

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We will always email you a full role specification, name our client and wait for your email authorisation before we send your CV to this organisation. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906).

Deerfoot is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.