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. This position is part of EPAM's Global Data & Analytics Consulting practice and offers a hybrid model with 2-3 days per week working from the EPAM office. EPAM is enhancing its Data Governance consulting practice to empower clients to attain superior business results by efficiently governing and managing data and implementing modern technology solutions.

• 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 expertise in at least 2-3 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 implementation
• Practical expertise in conducting maturity assessment, gap analysis, strategic roadmap and solution implementation guidelines
• Hands-on experience running customer workshops and collaboration sessions to discover priorities and determine maturity/readiness
• Extensive practical expertise with modern data stack, agile environments and high-end technologies
• Excellent verbal and written command of English to drive client discussions and draft documentation

Nice to have:

• Technology expertise with tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Ataccama, Azure Purview, Atlas, Talend, Soda
• Understanding of modern concepts like Data Observability, DataOps and Data Mesh

• 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 improve capabilities from current state to viable maturity by creating strategy, roadmaps and implementation plans
• Leverage understanding of business and IT capabilities to build technology solutions for Data Management and Governance
• Provide end-to-end services from strategy ideation and use case elaboration to MVP implementation and enterprise scaling-out
• Lead customer conversations and architectural teams to define modern Data Management architecture and practices to manage data lifecycle
• Support business development efforts including proposal development, Statements of Work and client presentations
• Create consulting offerings and reusable templates