Job Description

Data Strategy/ Governance Consultant

Location: Dubai/Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

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 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.

Key Responsibilities

+ Collaborate with business, technology and cross-functions to develop understanding of data requirements, challenges and pain points

+ Drive enterprise-wide data mgmt. maturity assessment, define the current state, future state and north star

+ Develop enterprise data operating model across people, process, technology and governance

+ Shape data strategy roadmap that leads to value realization, including investment plan and business case

+ Lead independently small engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.

+ Identify and nurture pull-through business opportunities, support business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure

+ Collaborate with clients and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities

+ Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations on a specific market-relevant data strategy domain

+ Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approach

Key Skills

+ Strong data-driven consulting with focus on business and technology value architecting and realization

+ Ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures on assignments

+ Management of team efforts at a client or within Accenture

+ Ability to pull-through business opportunities

+ Experience and understanding of core enterprise data domains - Data mgmt., data governance, data architecture & platform, data quality, data protection, advanced analytics & AI

+ Experience in data advisory and/or implementation

+ Ability to operate cross industry, with preferred experience in Banking, Telcos, Oil&Gas, and/or Government

+ Pro-actively acquired business knowledge beyond technical role or via business school i.e. MBA

Qualification

+ Minimum 4-6 years' work experience - at least 2 years in data management / strategy

+ Proven and relevant past consulting experience; alternatively strong in-house data management / pre-sales roles (and demonstration of intrinsic consulting skills)

+ Certifications: DAMA, CMMI, DCAM, Cloud platforms...

+ Arabic speaking and fluent English

Why join us?

+ We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues

+ You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools

+ Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

+ You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

+ You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Next Steps

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