Data Management & Strategy Sr. Consultant - Data Strategy & Governance

Data Management & Strategy Sr. Consultant (Data Strategy & Governance)

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

YOUR ROLE

As a Data Management & Strategy Consultant, you will be a strategic partner to our clients, helping them design and embed strong data management and governance capabilities. You will combine advisory, operating model design and pragmatic implementation support, enabling organizations to manage data as an asset and accelerate analytics/AI adoption safely and sustainably.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• Define and implement data strategy and a pragmatic execution roadmap aligned with business priorities and data/AI ambitions.
• Design data governance operating models (decision rights, roles such as data owners/stewards, governance bodies, processes and KPIs), aligned with DAMA-DMBOK principles.
• Establish governance frameworks for metadata, lineage, data quality, data cataloging and master/reference data where relevant.
• Support clients in defining workflows for data quality management (rules, metrics, monitoring, remediation) and adoption practices.
• Drive compliance and risk management initiatives aligned with GDPR and the EU AI Act (risk classification, documentation, accountability, AI literacy touchpoints).
• Advise on governance approaches such as data mesh / domain-oriented data products and their organizational implications.
• Support pre-sales activities: proposals, client workshops, maturity assessments, and delivery approach definition.

YOUR PROFILE

• Minimum of 3+ years experience in data governance, data management, or data strategy roles (consulting preferred).
• Experience designing roles/responsibilities and collaboration models across Business and IT (ownership, stewardship, data councils).
• Strong understanding of governance foundations: data quality, metadata, lineage, cataloging, privacy/security-by-design.
• Awareness of regulatory frameworks and practical implementation considerations for GDPR and EU AI Act.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to translate complex concepts to executive and non-technical stakeholders.
• Structured problem-solving; proactive mindset; comfort working in ambiguous environments.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English.
• Nice-to-have: Certifications (CDMP, privacy); experience with governance tools (catalog/lineage) and operating model transformations.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT CAPGEMINI

• At Capgemini Portugal we have a flexible and dynamic work environment. Flexibility enables a better work-life balance and gives more flexibility to the employee to manage the working hours, as well if he works at the office or remotely, according with the company’s hybrid work policy; 
•  We have local programs that promote people growth, reskill and new skills development (Career Acceleration Programs); 
• We promote an empowering environment with autonomy and peers' relationships among the top scores of our Monthly Employees' feedback; Next to this, we also offer an attractive compensation package and benefits such as Health and Life insurance, as well as Referral program with bonuses for talent recommendations and other fringe benefits according with our partnerships in force.  
• Capgemini Portugal is an equal opportunity employer. We promote equality and dignity in all aspects of recruitment and employment, as well as employment offers and promotions made according with competence and ability or performance, respectively.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.  

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