Data Governance Implementation Lead

Location: Porto, Portugal

Company

Global consulting firm delivering AI and data, digital commerce, marketing and design, and advisory solutions across multiple industries.

What you will do

• Help clients embed data governance into daily business practices, prioritizing areas with the highest business value and stakeholder support.
• Identify stakeholders, business pain points, and governance gaps with business and IT teams.
• Define ownership models for Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Custodians, and decision forums.
• Facilitate workshops that align business and technical stakeholders on ownership, definitions, and decision-making.
• Translate ambiguous governance challenges into actionable implementation approaches and support their adoption.
• Create reusable templates, playbooks, and accelerators while collaborating with data, analytics, architecture, and privacy specialists.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of experience in data governance, data management, data quality, analytics, business analysis, or a related field.
• Experience initiating data or governance efforts from scratch and securing sponsorship and stakeholder buy-in.
• Ability to engage senior business stakeholders, structure ambiguous mandates, and establish a clear starting point.
• Strong communication skills for translating data concepts into business value for technical and business audiences.
• Working understanding of data platforms and the role of governance.
• Proactive approach, comfort with ambiguity, and resilience.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK, CDMP, Collibra, Informatica, Alation, or Microsoft Purview.
• Experience in ESG, Finance, HR, Operations, Supply Chain, or another domain where data ownership is important.
• Consulting, international, or multi-entity organization experience.
• Basic SQL, BI, or data platform knowledge and awareness of GDPR or other data protection principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on client work focused on practical data governance and measurable business impact.
• Opportunities to collaborate with multidisciplinary specialists across data, analytics, architecture, privacy, security, and business consulting.
• Exposure to different clients, industries, and complex data environments.
• Opportunity to grow toward broader data governance leadership in an international and diverse environment.
• Focus on curiosity, collaboration, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.