Are you ready to help organizations build confidence in their data and make smarter decisions? At Accenture, we specialize in Data Governance, empowering enterprises to unlock the full potential of their data assets by ensuring they are well-managed, trusted, and aligned to business priorities. This is an extraordinary opportunity to build a rewarding career at Data & AI Technology. Working in highly collaborative teams for world-leading clients, we will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. Whatever your work and life goals, we will help you achieve them. Sooner.
Join Accenture Technology and thrive in a digitally driven, innovation-led environment where you can help clients shift to the New, using cutting-edge data governance frameworks and best practices to enable smarter and faster, and more accurate organizations.
WORK YOU’LL DO
As a Data Governance Lead, you will work closely with our clients, leading and coaching cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize data governance strategies that enable trusted, well-governed data. You will shape roadmaps and guide teams in the end-to-end delivery of data governance projects.
Our Services Include:
Data Governance Frameworks: Develop governance approaches aligned with business priorities and regulatory needs.
Data Catalog & Metadata Management: Design solutions to improve data discovery, understanding, and reuse.
Data Quality Management: Create processes and controls for measuring, monitoring, and improving data quality.
Operating Models & Stewardship: Define sustainable roles, responsibilities, and workflows across the organization.
Leading Responsibilities:
Analyze current data management and governance maturity levels, identify gaps, and propose actionable strategies for improvement.
Develop and tailor governance operating models, policies, and data stewardship frameworks.
Support data classification, lineage, and metadata management initiatives.
Assist in designing and implementing data quality measurement and monitoring systems.
Interview client stakeholders to understand pain points related to data ownership, access, and quality.
Support business case creation and roadmap planning for data governance programs.
Contribute to multi-disciplinary teams, providing expertise on data governance in architecture, processes, and operating models.
Create innovative and differentiated offerings, staying relevant and in sync with market demand and technology evolution.
Leveraging Accenture’s international assets and expertise to bring new ideas to clients.
WHO WE´RE LOOKING FOR?
Bachelor's degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Mathematics
3–5 years of cross-industry consulting or data governance experience.
Solid understanding of data governance frameworks, data management best practices, and regulatory requirements.
Experience with data governance and metadata tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation) considered a plus.
Hands-on experience with data engineering concepts, including ETL development, pipelines, and building scalable data solutions.
Knowledge of Power BI or other leading BI tools for data visualization and reporting.
Knowledge of data modeling and enterprise architecture principles is a strong advantage.
Strong business acumen and ability to connect governance initiatives to business priorities.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Information on benefits is here.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario $90,850 to $140,850
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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