About the Role
The Senior Consultant — Data Governance will support the day-to-day operation of governance, performance reporting, and benefits tracking for the data-and-AI vertical within a multi-vertical Strategy Execution & Value Realization Office. This role is crucial to ensure that strategic initiatives are tracked, reported, and governed consistently against agreed standards.
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Responsibilities
- Operate the governance processes, templates, and tools established for the vertical, maintaining consistency with the wider governance office's operating model.
- Perform portfolio visibility and dependency mapping for the vertical, flagging cross-vertical dependencies and issues for escalation where they exceed the vertical's authority.
- Track stage gates, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, quality, and change requests across the vertical's strategic initiatives, maintaining accurate delivery-health status.
- Review solution designs against Enterprise Architecture standards, prepare materials for Architecture Review Board sessions, and maintain architecture decision records.
- Build and maintain the KPI cascade and executive dashboards, portfolio reports, and scorecards for the vertical, ready for agreed-cadence reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Monitor business value and outcomes against strategic and operational KPIs, support post-implementation reviews, and help validate that initiatives deliver expected value before closure.
- Develop & maintain governance templates, playbooks, and supporting tooling, including day-to-day administration of the KPI cascade tool.
- Support periodic maturity assessments of governance and portfolio-management capability and help implement agreed improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Management, Information Systems, Business, Engineering) with a minimum of 5 years' relevant experience in data governance, portfolio/programme governance, or related advisory work.
- Experience operating governance processes.
- Experience building or maintaining KPI dashboards and portfolio reporting.
- Portfolio/programme governance operations, change control; data governance fundamentals.
- KPI dashboard development and portfolio reporting (e.g., Power BI or similar).
- Enterprise Architecture compliance review support.
- Stakeholder coordination and structured documentation.
- CDMP (DAMA) preferred; PMP or Prince2 is a plus; a BI-platform certification (e.g., Power BI Data Analyst).
Employment Type
Full-time employment.
