BUSINESS TITLE: Global Data Governance Senior Specialist
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POSITION DESCRIPTION
WHAT YOU’LL DO
In a world where Data is critical for BCG's success, BCG has founded a cross-functional team, the Global Data Product Portfolio (PP), to create first-class, foundational global Data capabilities, products, and assets to achieve the following goals across BCG functions and teams:
- Enable better decision-making
- Generate new insights
- Attain operational excellence
- Minimise firm risk
As part of this Global Data PP, the Data Governance team work to implement policies, processes, standards, and technologies to ensure data is findable, understood, trusted, managed, and useable (whilst also supporting compliance with laws and regulations).
Working closely with the Data Governance Director and Data Stewards, we are looking for a Senior Data Governance Specialist to proactively drive the implementation of Data Governance capability in priority Global HR areas, particularly further maturing our Metadata Management, driving cultural awareness, and implementing Data Quality processes.
Our HR Data is fundamental to BCG’s overall priorities, from supporting digitalization of our functions to feeding the analytics and information for continued growth and success as a global organisation. For HR, Data Governance is a growing area of priority and influence with recent investment driving a renewed strategy and implementation plan. This is an important area for the organisation with significant scope for thought partnering and senior stakeholder influencing.
The ideal candidates will have a goal-oriented mindset and enjoy working with cross-functional teams to deliver Data Governance capabilities and support exceptional Data Products. They will have 5+ years of experience in driving an increase in Data Governance maturity in large, highly complex companies and a knowledge of industry best practices. Finally, they should have good communication skills with proven experience in stakeholder engagement (including business and technical teams) with the ability to showcase the business benefits of Data Governance.
Among your responsibilities, you will:
- Deliver on the vision and roadmap for our HR Data Governance Strategy
o Driving metadata management (alignment on definitions, capturing data lineage, capturing data classification, maintaining/updating HR items in data catalogue)
o Driving the cultural change agenda; raising awareness regarding data governance principles; coaching relevant stakeholders
o Facilitate Data Governance forums and workshops with relevant stakeholders to promote adherence to governance policies.
o Develop and implement Data Quality processes to support more proactive resolution of issues.
o Support Data Access controls implemented for Global Data Products
o Working with the Global Data Governance Director, the Global Data Stewards for HR data, the Data Governance CoE, and leaders in the HR space, to continuously drive our HR Data Governance Strategy
o Understand any data opportunities from our customers, users, and business leads on HR data, especially our BI&A, HR, and Finance stakeholders.
- Ensure sustainable delivery of customer value on the agreed Data Governance roadmap
o Deliver on Data Governance priority areas (e.g. Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Data Quality) and deliver to cohesive action plan to ensure impactful value-add to end customers
o Clear narrative and articulation of Data Governance principles linked to business value-add, communicating these regularly to stakeholders across Data and HR.
o Track and report on specific and measurable aligned KPIs and key results, developing metrics to measure maturity and Data Quality
o Prioritise identified data opportunities clearly communicating with required stakeholders to ensure efficient delivery
o Proactively identify and escalate risks and mitigation plans, along with key decisions, to relevant stakeholders
- Support and align with the Data Governance community (Data Governance Directors, and Data Stewards) to ensure alignment and best practice sharing
o Engage with the Data Stewards (particularly in the HR space) to ensure alignment and ensure the consistency of the entire Data Governance strategy
o Foster connectedness with key squads to ensure data opportunities and priorities are understood (i.e., HR, Finance, BI&A squads)
