Data Governance Consultant (m/f/d)

We make the world better with data The Woodmark Group is a leading consulting organization specializing in AI, data, and analytics. We inspire people through our passion for data and innovation while supporting organizations on their digital transformation journey. Living our values of respect, openness, trust, and care fosters an excellent corporate culture and forms the foundation of our success. What you can expect from us Are you interested in designing data governance frameworks and implementing them technically within modern data platforms? With us, you’ll work at the intersection of data governance, data platforms, and data engineering. Depending on your strengths and interests, you can focus on different business and technical areas. You’ll help our clients translate business and regulatory requirements into concrete data products, data domains, and data catalogs, as well as modern data and platform architectures, and integrate them sustainably into existing organizations. In doing so, you’ll combine business concepts with technical implementation and design sustainable data landscapes based on modern cloud and data platforms. Your diverse range of responsibilities Bringing Governance and Platforms Together: You’ll develop modern approaches to data governance and translate them into concrete requirements for data platforms, data products, and the organization. You’ll support our clients with strategic and operational issues related to data governance. Designing Data Domains and Data Products : You’ll help clients structure their data landscape, define data domains, and design the business and technical aspects of data products. Helping to Shape and Drive Modern Data Platforms : You’ll work closely with data engineers, data architects, cloud and platform experts, and business units to ensure that governance requirements are implemented pragmatically in projects. You will contribute to target architectures (e.g., based on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, or data lakehouse architectures) and translate business, organizational, and regulatory requirements into viable implementation concepts. Operationalizing Governance : You’ll help design roles, responsibilities, and standards so that they are effectively integrated into the organization, processes, data platforms, and development workflows and firmly embedded for the long term. Taking Responsibility : You’ll independently structure, manage, and implement projects or subprojects. In doing so, you’ll ensure clear coordination between clients, the project team, and decision-makers. Communication Is Key : You’ll be in constant, close communication with your clients to ensure professional expectation management and client satisfaction, your project team to ensure project success, and, of course, the Woodmark team to strengthen knowledge sharing and mutual support What you bring to the role You have experience in data governance, data management, data architecture, or modern data platforms, and you’re interested in advising on, designing, and implementing technical governance concepts using the technology of your choice. It’s not important to us that you’re already familiar with every tool. What matters most is that you can think holistically about governance, architecture, and technology, and that you’re eager to support clients from concept through implementation. What you bring to the table Project Experience : You have several years of experience in at least one of the following areas: data governance, data management, data architecture, data engineering, data platforms, or cloud-based data architectures, and you’d like to further expand your technical expertise in the field of data governance. Expertise is a given : You have a solid understanding of data governance, data management, and role models,experience with data domains, data products, data mesh, or comparable architectural approaches, an understanding of modern data platforms (e.g., data lakes, data lakehouses, cloud data warehouses), hands-on experience with technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Microsoft Purview, or comparable solutions, knowledge of data catalogs, metadata management, data quality, or data lineage, an interest in technical implementation, automation, interfaces, platform integration, or DevOps-oriented workflows, the ability to translate business requirements into actionable architectures, concepts, and project activities. Technical Interest and Stakeholder-Oriented Thinking : You’re fascinated by the technical aspects of data governance. You want to advise our clients on their governance structures and help them evolve. In doing so, you can explain complex concepts in an accessible way and bridge the gap between governance, organization, data architecture, and technical implementation. Technical Interest Drives Us Forward : You don’t need to be a software developer, reporting specialist, or data engineer, but you should enjoy understanding technical concepts and working with architects and engineers to integrate governance requirements into modern data platforms. Fluency in German and very good English skills : You have no trouble navigating the German language and English documentation, and you actively participate when project work involves communication in English.