Data Governance Specialist - Assurance

As a Data Governance Specialist, you are part of our growing Data & Artificial Intelligence team within our Digital Core function, where we work together on supporting the wider needs and demands from the business, transforming the way we think of data and embedding data management in our key deliveries across all areas of the energy industry. In this fast-paced environment, you will assist your team in the formation and execution of the data governance framework, policy, standards; with particular focus on building and executing data maturity assessments and building a framework for data governance sustainability that can help us monitor the progress we make in our governance journey. You will assist in the implementation of an enterprise data governance program, the enablement and operationalization of our data governance roles and the materialization of new ways of working that truly bring data governance alive at Siemens Energy.

How You ll Make an Impact

• Lead our efforts to design and execute a framework for data governance sustainability, consisting of tools, enablers and collaboration mechanisms to effectively assess the maturity of our data domains, monitor and support continuous progress
• You can communicate and present data governance concepts clearly and is able to support upskilling and training activities that serve to enable and operationalize the data management roles in the organization.
• You have experience designing, delivering and executing (baselining) data maturity models; therefore, being able to continuously support their embedding and monitoring against targets
• You have experience creating suitable content in service of producing, refining, and publishing new artifacts such as policies, procedures, and guidelines. These will be key in maturing the concept of data governance sustainability across all of Siemens Energy
• You will contribute to the delivery of other activities and projects within the scope of data Governance, such as data KPIs; regular touch points with all data governance roles and data domains, supporting how we materialize the ownership and governance of SE data domain landscape.
• You will leverage the Digital forums, in particular the data Governance Council to engage with our data stakeholders and use the forum to formalise decisions and plans on data governance sustainability and data maturity; and gain their buy-in.
• You will collaborate with the Digital Core business partners to build a stronger operating model that brings data maturity closer to the business areas and all their employees, helping to further support the need for investment in Data Governance.
• You will support the development and maintenance of an end-to-end data lifecycle management approach; leveraging the Data Management Enterprise Process, and making sure our framework for data governance sustainability builds upon the enterprise data management practices we promote.

What You bring

• University degree in one of the following fields: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or a related
• 10+ years experience working in Data Management in a large organization (preferably) supporting the implementation of data governance framework within a complex data landscape.
• Excellent communicator, able to explain data governance concepts with clear examples that bring the concept to life. Therefore, able to introduce the concept of data maturity and work with the business in completing assessments seeking to understand the progress being made in the data governance journey at Siemens Energy
• Specialist in designing and implementing Data Governance; but has experience or very good understanding of Master and Reference Data Management, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, Enterprise Data architecture and Data security practices.
• Understands how the technology and application landscape is managed in large originations, and as such has experience designing processes and understanding of design principles to further embed data management in how we further build and improve that landscape, and the collaboration channels that shape it.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to drive progress and find solutions to issues; excellent communicator and confident presenter.
• Experience implementing and using data management solutions such as Data Catalogs and Data Quality tools.
• Proven track record of operating within large data governance programs, with expert understanding of existing data management frameworks and best practice, but able to pragmatically apply these.
• Remain flexible to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change
• Excellent written and oral communication