Who we are:
Billigence is a boutique data consultancy with global reach, helping organisations transform the way they work with data. We specialise in delivering high-impact solutions across Data Management, Data Governance, Cloud Data Platforms, AI Enablement, and Advanced Analytics.
Headquartered in Sydney with offices across the UK, Europe, and APAC, Billigence partners with some of the world's leading organisations to design and implement modern data capabilities that drive better decision-making and business outcomes.
About the role:
Billigence is looking for an experienced Data Management Lead to support one of the UK's largest retail transformation programmes.
Working alongside senior business and technology stakeholders, you will lead the Data Management workstream across a complex SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA transformation while supporting the migration of legacy enterprise data into a modern cloud data platform.
This is a highly visible leadership role where you will act as the bridge between business, technology, governance, and delivery teams, ensuring data is trusted, governed, and ready to support the future operating model.
The successful candidate will combine strong Data Management expertise with excellent stakeholder engagement skills and experience delivering enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
What you'll do:
- Lead the Data Management workstream across a large-scale SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA transformation programme.
- Define and embed Data Management best practices across multiple business domains.
- Partner with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Programme Managers, Architects, and business leaders to improve data quality, governance, and accountability.
- Ensure programme deliverables align with enterprise Data Management standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
- Act as the strategic link between the Master Data Management (MDM) programme and wider transformation initiatives.
- Support the migration of legacy Enterprise Data Warehouse assets into a modern cloud data platform.
- Drive improvements in data quality, metadata, lineage, stewardship, and business ownership.
- Provide hands-on guidance to business stakeholders in implementing effective Data Management processes.
- Identify data risks, remediation opportunities, and governance improvements across critical business domains.
- Develop KPIs and reporting to measure Data Management maturity, adoption, and business outcomes.
- Represent the Data Management function across programme governance forums and executive stakeholder meetings.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Architecture, Governance, Security, Risk, and Product teams to deliver trusted enterprise data capabilities.
What you'll need:
- Extensive experience leading Data Management or Data Governance initiatives within large enterprise organisations.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise Data Management frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, or similar.
- Experience delivering Data Management across large transformation programmes.
- Strong understanding of Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Lineage, and Data Stewardship.
- Experience working with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA migrations, or large ERP transformation programmes is highly desirable.
- Experience supporting cloud data platform or Enterprise Data Warehouse migrations is advantageous.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
- Strong consulting mindset with the ability to translate business challenges into practical Data Management solutions.
- Experience working within retail or other large complex organisations is highly desirable.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and leadership skills.
Inclusion & Equal Opportunities
Billigence is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout the recruitment process.
Skills Required
- Strong experience delivering Data Management or Data Governance initiatives within enterprise organisations
- Experience working with workforce, HR, colleague, or operational data domains
- Strong understanding of data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, and stewardship principles
- Ability to engage effectively with both business and technical stakeholders
- Experience operating within complex transformation environments
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work independently while driving delivery across multiple teams
- Retail or large-scale operational environment experience
- Familiarity with modern enterprise data platforms and governance tooling
What We Do
We are headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices in Europe (London, Prague, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Warsaw), Bangalore, Singapore, New Zealand & United States. Billigence is a BI Consultancy and contingent labour service company with a growing customer base of large corporations across different industries as well as young and agile internet-based businesses. We help organisations big and small build scalable AI solutions that drive value by enhancing their data governance, aligning strategy and empowering their people. As a company we source and hire innovative data enthusiasts and believe data is the most powerful asset of today's businesses. That is why at Billigence, we are helping our clients to drive the business value of their data. We do this through our data proposition comprising of data consolidation and enrichment, data visualisation and analytics and data governance components. We deliver market leading recruitment services for temporary and contract labour hires to supplement our clients workforces. Our vision is to become leaders in helping companies to transform into digital age and reach their full potential by leveraging the power of their data. Billigence also leverages partnerships with some of the world’s most innovative data companies such as Snowflake, Collibra, Alteryx, Salesforce, Tableau, dbt Labs, H2O.ai, Matillion, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft, Keboola & others
