Data Governance Specialist

Your Role

As a Senior Data Governance Specialist, you will be the architect of the Enterprise Data Foundation. You recognize that high-performing AI is only possible on a bedrock of trusted, high-quality, and structured data. Your mission is to help our clients move past "data chaos" by establishing the core disciplines—Stewardship, Quality, and Master Data—that turn raw information into a strategic asset. You will empower organizations to take charge of their data, ensuring it is accessible and actionable for both human decision-makers and autonomous systems.

Your Main Tasks & Responsibilities

• Build the "Golden Thread": Lead engagements to define data governance strategies that establish a single version of truth, focusing on Master Data Management (MDM) and cross-functional data standards.
• Engineer Data Quality Frameworks: Design and implement automated data quality monitoring and remediation workflows to ensure data is "fit for purpose" at every stage of the lifecycle.
• Modernize Governance Architecture: Shape governance models for modern architectures, transitioning from legacy silos to Data Mesh and Federated Governance models that promote data product ownership.
• Metadata & Lineage Orchestration: Map the enterprise data landscape by implementing robust metadata management, technical lineage, and business glossaries to ensure full transparency and auditability.
• Drive "Privacy-First" Foundations: Oversee data privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) as a foundational layer, embedding security and ethics into the very start of the data supply chain.
• Enable Agentic Readiness: Leverage your strong data foundation to prepare the ecosystem for AI Agentic workflows, ensuring data is structured and labeled for machine consumption.

Your Background

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience: 2 to 6 years in a functional analysis or data-centric role, ideally within a project-based or consulting environment.
• Modeling Mastery: Proven expertise in Data Modeling (Conceptual/Logical). Deep knowledge of Data Vault or Kimball methodologies is a significant advantage.
• Technical Literacy: Experience with modeling tools and a solid understanding of Cloud Data Warehousing (Snowflake, Azure Synapse, etc.).
• Agile Mindset: Comfortable navigating Scrum environments. Product Owner or Scrum Master certifications are highly valued.
• Governance Fluency: Familiarity with data governance tools like Collibra or Alation is a major plus.
• Communication: A bilingual or trilingual profile (English + Dutch/French) with the ability to influence both C-suite executives and back-end developers.

Our Offer

Accenture is an incredible place to work - and keep learning. By joining us, you’ll become part of a global company with a world-class brand and reputation.  Besides the work we do for our clients, we’re really proud of our vibrant, diverse workplace culture: we believe in openness and honesty, fairness and equality, common sense and realism. We want to get to know the real you and help you explore and grow - whatever it is you're great at. So you will always have lots of learning opportunities (formal and informal) to improve your role-specific skills and expertise. Besides our high-profile, challenging projects and our nurturing work environment, we offer excellent employee benefits, including:

• 20 + 12 holidays (Belgium)
• Laptop and smartphone
• Hospitalization insurance and extensive group insurance package
• Bonus program
• Training & learning opportunities
• Different mobility options
• Flexrewards: decide on your rewards package with our flexible benefits tool
• Discount program: get discounts at your favorite (online) shops
• Employee shares purchase plan
• And many more!

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.

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