Data Strategy & Governance Consultant - Utilities

About the role

We Are: 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 790,000 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.

Responsibilities

• Execute data governance design — support the design and operationalization of governance frameworks covering data ownership, stewardship, data quality standards, metadata management, and policy enforcement.
• Operationalize governance models — work with business and technology stakeholders to turn data strategy into actionable governance operating models that enable trusted data for analytics and AI.
• Serve governance structures — help establish governance councils, define data classification and access policies, and document standards and processes.
• Configure governance tooling — implement and drive adoption of cataloging, lineage, and data quality tooling (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview).
• Support compliance alignment — ensure governance work aligns with regulatory and privacy requirements and contributes to master data management efforts.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data management, data governance, or a data strategy role.
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience operationalizing data governance frameworks (stewardship, ownership, data quality, metadata management).
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience with data cataloging or lineage tooling (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working within or supporting regulatory and privacy compliance requirements.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience serving utilities clients (electric, gas, or water) or in a utilities finance, controllership, or regulatory function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience).
• If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.

Skills

• Experience in data strategy and governance.
• Hands-on experience with data governance frameworks.
• Experience with data cataloging and lineage tooling.
• Experience with regulatory and privacy compliance.
• Experience with utilities clients.

Benefits

• Market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Paid holidays.
• Paid time off.

Pay

Annual Salary Range: $70,350 to $205,800

Schedule

Travel may be required for this role, varying from 0 to 80% depending on business need and client requirements.