Senior Data Governance Consultant

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your role

As a Senior Data Governance Consultant at Capgemini Invent, you will help clients establish trusted, high-quality, and compliant data foundations that enable business growth, analytics, and AI-driven transformation. You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to operationalize governance frameworks and ensure that data is managed as a strategic asset across the organization.

Your tasks

• •Implement governance operating models in the business domains: roles, RACI, decision rights, stewardship forums; at senior level, design them and run the forums and review boards that keep them alive.
• •Define and maintain data standards and business rules: definitions, allowed values, validation rules for master and reference data; at senior level, own the business glossary and, where clients need them, taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge graph standards.
• •Keep the data catalog complete and current: onboard assets and domains, link technical metadata to business terms, maintain lineage and classification.
• •Design data quality rules with business owners, implement checks with data engineers, build dashboards and run the issue and remediation process; at senior level, set up the whole data quality management cycle.
• •Apply data classification, privacy, data sovereignty and residency requirements (e.g., GDPR): jurisdiction and access rules, retention, the onboarding of data products, and the evidence for regulators.
• •Support data governance maturity assessments: interviews, analysis, gap lists; at senior level, lead them and turn findings into prioritized roadmaps.
• •Work with data engineers and platform teams so that standards, classification, lineage and quality checks are implemented in catalogs and data platforms.
• •Prepare governance metrics, reporting, training material and audit evidence; contribute to reusable assets and accelerators; at senior level, coach consultants and client data stewards.

Your profile

• •Consultant: 3+ years of experience in data governance, data management, master data, data quality or analytics, ideally in a consulting or large enterprise environment. Senior Consultant: 5+ years, with hands-on work in at least three of: governance frameworks, stewardship, data standards or master data, data quality, metadata and catalogs, semantic assets, data privacy, and a track record of leading workstreams.
• •Understanding of data governance principles and methodologies (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK); CDMP or equivalent certification is a plus.
• •Hands-on experience with at least one governance, catalog or data quality tool (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Microsoft Purview) and with ERP or master data systems (e.g., SAP); working SQL.
• •Business analysis and facilitation skills: process mapping, requirements gathering, stakeholder workshops; at senior level, the ability to align senior stakeholders on shared definitions and decisions.
• •Awareness of data protection and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR).
• •Willingness to work across topics and grow into new ones; strong communication and organization skills; fluent English.
• •Experience in one or more of the preferred industries (FS, Automotive, Energy & Utilities, Tech, FMCG, Pharma) is highly desirable.

What You'll love about working here

• •Practical benefits: yearly financial bonus, private medical care with Medicover with additional packages (e.g., dental, senior care, oncology) available on preferential terms, life insurance and access to NAIS benefit platform.
• •Access to over 70 training tracks with certification opportunities (e.g., GenAI, Excel, Business Analysis, Project Management) on our NEXT platform. Dive into a world of knowledge with free access to Education First languages platform, TED Talks and Udemy Business materials and trainings.
• •Cutting-Edge Technology: Position yourself at the forefront of IT innovation, working with the latest technologies and platforms. Capgemini partners with top global enterprises, including 145 Fortune 500 companies.
• •Enjoy hybrid working model that fits your life - after completing onboarding, connect work from a modern office with ergonomic work from home, thanks to home office package (including laptop, monitor, and chair). Ask your recruiter about the details.

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About Capgemini

Capgemini is the business transformation partner for enterprises in the age of AI. We help organizations imagine and build an intelligent, sustainable future, combining AI, technology and human ingenuity to transform how they operate, innovate and grow. With unique end-to-end capabilities spanning strategy, technology, engineering and intelligent operations, we bring together deep industry expertise and market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data to turn ambition into measurable business outcomes at scale. Supported by a robust ecosystem of partners and nearly 60 years of expertise, Capgemini is a responsible and diverse global organization of over 410,000 team members in more than 50 countries. The Group reported 2025 revenues of €22.5 billion.

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