Senior Consultant - Data Management & Governance

We are seeking thought leaders with profound consulting and technology expertise to address our clients' most challenging technology, strategy, and transformation issues from a Data Management and Governance perspective. This involves crafting innovative strategies and technology solutions.
EPAM is progressively enhancing its Data Governance consulting practice. Our goal is to empower clients to attain superior business results by efficiently governing and managing data as well as implementing modern and innovative technology solutions. This is a rapidly growing area and a highly visible role offering numerous opportunities to expand your skills and advance your career. In this position, you will solve complex and unique client problems using your expertise in working with a modern data stack. You will ensure data reliability, security, and quality with an agile mindset.
Responsibilities
Engage deeply with senior executives to define and execute Enterprise-wide Data Management & Governance Strategy programs and business-cases, often becoming the “trusted advisor”
Lead Data Management & Governance assessments to help clients gradually improve capabilities from current state to the viable state of maturity by creating strategy, roadmaps and implementation plans
Leverage your deep understanding of business and IT capabilities to build technology solutions for Data Management and Governance which help to innovate and create value across the client organization
Provide end-to-end services from strategy ideation and use case elaboration to MVP implementation and further enterprise scaling-out
Lead customer conversations and architectural teams to define modern Data Management architecture and developing practices to manage data through its lifecycle
Support business development efforts, including proposal development, Statements of Work and client presentations
Create consulting offerings and reusable templates
Requirements
Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Information Technology or related discipline
Minimum 3 years in a Consulting role leading Data Management & Governance initiatives
Deep practical subject matter expertise in at least 2-3 of the following areas: Data Governance Operating model & Policies, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Metadata Management & Data Cataloging, Data Lineage, Data Compliance
Understanding of data governance frameworks (DAMA, DCAM), methodologies, processes and how to implement them
Practical expertise in conducting maturity assessment and gap analysis and providing strategic roadmap and solution implementation guidelines
Hands-on experience in running customer workshops and other collaboration sessions to discover customer priorities, understand current state and determine maturity/readiness to execute on enterprise Data Management & Governance vision
Extensive practical expertise with modern data stack, agile environments and high-end technologies
Excellent verbal and written command of the English language, to drive client-side discussions and draft concise documentation when required
Nice to have
Technology expertise with one or several commercial or open-source tools, e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Ataccama, Azure Purview, Atlas, Talend, Soda
Understanding of modern concepts as Data Observability, DataOps and Data Mesh