Senior Manager - Data Strategy & Governance

About the role

EY is looking for an experienced Senior Manager to join its growing MENA Technology Consulting team in Egypt. You will lead enterprise Data Strategy, Governance and Data Management transformations across Egypt and the MENA region.

Key responsibilities

• Lead Data Strategy, Data Governance and Data Management transformation engagements.
• Define governance frameworks, operating models, policies, standards and implementation roadmaps.
• Establish data ownership, stewardship, metadata, business glossaries, catalogues and lineage capabilities.
• Lead Data Quality, Master and Reference Data, Data Classification, Privacy and Security initiatives.
• Advise C-suite stakeholders on data strategy, regulatory requirements and governance technology choices.
• Lead solutioning, proposals, RFP responses and business development.
• Provide leadership and mentoring across multidisciplinary Data Governance and Data Management teams.

Required profile

• Strong experience in Data Strategy, Data Governance, Data Management or Data Advisory, with leadership responsibility.
• Proven experience leading enterprise-scale data governance and transformation programs.
• Strong C-suite advisory, consulting, communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Good understanding of data privacy, security, regulatory compliance and GDPR.
• Industry experience preferably in Financial Services, Government and Public Sector, Energy and Utilities, Telecom, Consumer and Retail, or Real Estate and Infrastructure.
• Prior Big Four, management consulting or technology consulting experience highly preferred.
• Experience across Egypt/MENA and readiness to travel across MENA based on client needs.

Required skills

• Data Governance: metadata management, data catalogues, business and technical glossaries, data lineage, stewardship and critical data elements.
• Data Quality: profiling, quality rules, monitoring, controls and remediation.
• Data Management: master data management, reference data management and data lifecycle management.
• Privacy and security: data classification, data security, GDPR, masking and handling controls.
• Governance platforms: Microsoft Purview, Informatica IDMC/EDC/IDQ, IBM Knowledge Catalog, Collabra and Alation.
• Open-source governance: Apache Atlas, OpenMetadata and DataHub.
• Data quality and observability: Great Expectations, Soda, Monte Carlo and similar platforms.
• Understanding of how data governance, data quality and trusted data foundations enable analytics, AI, GenAI and responsible AI at enterprise scale.