Data Governance Consultant

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Data, Analytics & AI

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career within Data and Analytics services will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.

Creating business intelligence from data requires an understanding of the business, the data, and the technology used to store and analyse that data. Using our Rapid Business Intelligence Solutions, data visualisation and integrated reporting dashboards, we can deliver agile, highly interactive reporting and analytics that help our clients to more effectively run their business and understand what business questions can be answered and how to unlock the answers.

Job Description: Data Governance Consultant

Base Location: Gurgaon

Responsibilities:

Should be an expert on organizational information and governing enterprise data assets. Should have accountability for organization’s overall data and reporting process by responsibly managing assets for clients. Their responsibilities will include:

• Should have good knowledge and worked on insurance domain
• Work with business, technology, and process work streams to govern the data identification, data definition, data classification, data propagation and data traceability across the systems/functions/line of business.
• Excellent Understanding of all aspects of data governance – catalog, lineage, metadata management, data transformation etc., and understand business processes to provide insights.
• Should have good understanding and hands-on experience on end-to-end data flows/data lineage (able to capture data transformations, create lineage views) and identifying data dependencies in support of delivery, release, and change management.
• Should have hands-on experience on the entire data life cycle and build a governance regime with focus on protection and privacy controls across the stages.
• Responsible for defining and maintaining standards and best practices for data life cycle management along with integration in other data management tools.
• Should have ownership on the data quality improvement initiatives by leading combined teams of technical, business and quality analysts to ensure data accuracy, uniqueness, validity, and completeness.
• Should understand business domain, data definitions, technical & operational metadata and able to document and maintain data dictionary, data quality definitions and usage at the concept and data element level.
• Drive implementation of data governance initiatives such as data governance awareness and adoption program, perform implementation for various data governance pillars such as business glossary implementation, data access management etc.
• Guide and support requirements and testing of data quality initiatives, masking strategies, test cases.
• Identify new opportunities pertaining to the use of information assets to achieve efficiency and effectiveness in the marketplace (Data as the end product) / represent data as a strategic business asset.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years of experience with more than 3 years in data governance expert role.
• Bachelor's/master’s in computer science/IT or similar discipline.
• Good knowledge of the Insurance and/or Financial Services industry domain and related products is preferred.
• Proficient knowledge on Data Governance concepts including program/project management, change management, data quality, metadata management, data security, access, and data lineage.
• Experience in Collibra DIC in data management, metadata management, creation of assets, data classification, data lineages, able to capture end-to-end transformations (or similar cataloging tool technologies) for implementation and integration.
• Experience using agile project management tool such as Jira.
• Experience with working with various stakeholders across the organization, internal and external stakeholders including vendors and subcontractors.
• Effective communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Should have exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to handle complex projects in a multi-tasking and multi-client environment and meet deadlines while delivering high quality results.

Tools and Technology:

• Hands-on experience on Collibra
• Knowledge on Excel Macros

Mandatory Skill Set-Data Governance
Preferred Skill Set-Data Governance
Year of experience required-4-7
Qualifications-BTech

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Data Governance

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

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