Data Governance Consultant (AI & Data)

Are you ready to be a part of the digital reinvention of industry and revolutionize your career?

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value.

That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting - Data & AI comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.

Strategy and Consulting is one of four services –the others are Song, Technology and Operations

WORK YOU’LL DO

As a Data Governance Consultant, 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:

• Industry vendor certifications are desired (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, CNCF/Kubernetes or Databricks certifications); although not essential if you have demonstrable ability.

• 2+ years in data engineering, with a strong emphasis on cloud environments - AWS, GCP, Azure, or Cloud Native platforms.

• Microsoft Purview prior knowledge is considered a plus

• Profisee prior knowledge is considered a plus

• 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 in computer science, information systems, data management, or equivalent.

• 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 in Greek and English.

• Collaborate globally with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to define robust data architecture and modeling requirements.

WHAT´S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive salary and benefits, including but not limited to: life/health insurance, performance based bonuses, monthly vouchers, company car (depending on management level), flexible work arrangements, employee share purchase plan, TEA Accenture, parental leave, paid overtime (if needed) and various corporate discounts

• Continuous hard and soft skills training & development through global platforms & local academy

• Career coaching and mentorship to help you manage your career and develop professionally

• Ongoing strengths and skills based evaluation process

• Various opportunities to develop your career across a spectrum of clients, industries and projects

• Diverse and inclusive culture

• Corporate citizenship initiatives (access to volunteering opportunities, charity work ec.)

• Under our Brain Regain initiative, extra relocation benefits may apply

To learn more about Accenture, and how you will be challenged and inspired from Day 1, please visit our website accenture.com/gr-en/. 
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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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