Director, Data Management & Security Advisory

Role Overview

The Director of Data Management & Security Advisory at DAI Consultancy spearheads a diverse portfolio of client engagements, focusing on data strategy, governance, architecture, analytics, security, and value generation. Collaborating closely with executive sponsors, the Director identifies priority areas, evaluates organizational capabilities, and translates national data management directives into actionable transformation initiatives.

As a senior leader in consulting, the Director upholds the quality and integrity of consultancy advice and deliverables, ensures the effectiveness of cross-functional teams, and nurtures strong, trust-based client partnerships. Though facilitating executive decisions and recommendations, formal approvals and risk acceptance lie with the client’s authorized representatives. The role also contributes to practice development, proposal formulation, team skill enhancement, and knowledge transfer to empower clients to sustain implemented capabilities post-engagement.

Core Duties

• Lead the data management and security advisory portfolio, defining service direction and maintaining high-quality standards across client projects.
• Advise senior executives on data strategies, governance frameworks, security measures, architecture, analytics, operating models, and investment priorities.
• Conduct assessments of current state, maturity, and capabilities, ensuring all conclusions are backed by verifiable client data.
• Oversee the creation of target operating models, transformation roadmaps, policy frameworks, business cases, and implementation strategies.
• Integrate considerations spanning business, data, technology, privacy, security, regulatory, and organizational change within all project workstreams.
• Review critical deliverables including recommendations, architectural frameworks, risk analyses, and executive presentations before client submission.
• Establish governance structures, quality checkpoints, escalation procedures, and decision controls suited to project scope and risk levels.
• Facilitate executive workshops and decision-making sessions while preserving client ownership and responsibility.
• Monitor portfolio delivery performance, financial health, interdependencies, and significant risks, initiating corrective actions as necessary.
• Foster and maintain trusted relationships with client executives, national stakeholders, partners, and specialist consultants.
• Lead proposal development, scope definition, team staffing, and solution design for complex data and digital transformation engagements.
• Mentor senior managers and consultants, enhance reusable methodologies, and ensure effective knowledge transfer to client teams at project handover.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data management, information systems, computer science, cybersecurity, business, or related disciplines; a master's degree is preferred.
• An equivalent mix of relevant education and direct consulting or implementation experience may be accepted.

Experience Requirements

• At least 12 years of experience in data, digital, technology, or information governance, including 5 or more years in leadership roles within enterprise or public-sector functions.
• Proven track record managing complex, multidisciplinary data, digital, technology, or information governance projects.
• Experience advising senior and public-sector stakeholders on investment priorities, risk management, governance, and transformation sequencing.
• Strong competence in quality assurance of strategies, operating models, roadmaps, policies, architectural decisions, and executive documentation.
• Expertise managing consulting portfolios, commercial outcomes, senior client relationships, and delivery teams.

Technical and Domain Expertise

• Enterprise data strategy, governance frameworks, and operating model design.
• Data architecture, integration techniques, analytics, and platform technologies.
• Knowledge of information security, privacy, data classification, resilience, and technology risk management.
• Understanding of data quality, metadata management, master data, reference data, records, and content management systems.
• Skills in portfolio prioritization, benefits realization, and transformation roadmap development.
• Familiarity with public-sector governance, policy implementation, and accountability standards.
• Expertise in executive performance measurement, assurance practices, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Comprehensive understanding of the twelve Qatar Data Knowledge Case (QDKC) domains and their relationships.

Core Competencies

• Enterprise data leadership and governance.
• Public/government sector governance and policies.
• Risk management and security supervision.
• Portfolio prioritization and management.
• Executive-level communication and facilitation.
• Organizational change leadership.
• Commercial acumen and judgment.
• Quality assurance and governance oversight.
• Talent development and mentoring.
• Building and sustaining client relationships.
• Negotiation and executive facilitation.
• Problem-solving for ambiguous challenges with practical solutions.
• Proposal leadership, scoping, estimation, and staffing coordination.
• Critical review of evidence and assumptions.
• Managing senior stakeholders and complex cross-organizational dependencies.
• Producing succinct, decision-ready materials for boards and committees.
• Capability development and knowledge transfer to client teams.

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) Practitioner or Master.
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP).