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Are you passionate about data quality, security, and making a real impact? Join the Talent Innovation & Solutions team in Digital & Analytics as the Data Strategy Lead Specialist, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping and overseeing our talent data governance framework. You'll ensure our data is accurate, secure, and fully compliant. Recruiting for this role ends on September 12, 2025. Work you'll do: • Collaborate with Talent functional experts to design and implement cutting-edge security models and automations to ensure Deloitte's Talent data is appropriately secured: • Collaborate with functional teams to analyze current processes. • Pinpoint data access issues and risks. • Recommend targeted process improvements. • Deliver clear process flows, best practices, and actionable toolkits. • Work closely with business leaders and Enabling Areas to proactively identify and mitigate data risks. • Leverage continuous improvement and lean data methodologies to elevate existing workflows, drawing on feedback from stakeholders, leadership, and team members. • Build deep expertise in Talent Data Governance and Security, including the nuances of sensitive data fields and their combinations, positioning yourself as a go-to resource for the organization. • Take ownership of planning, scheduling, estimating, forecasting, and coordinating the successful delivery of data strategy and security projects and related initiatives. • Translate complex Talent data security model challenges into clear technical and business language, fostering productive discussions with Deloitte Technology, Enterprise Data Governance, and stakeholder teams. • Create comprehensive toolkits and support materials that demystify approval processes, and data security guidance enabling stakeholders to navigate them with confidence. • Plan, schedule, estimate, forecast, coordinate, and manage the delivery of all project deliverables and related initiatives. Define technical requirements as needed for new initiatives/projects, ensuring that systems are built to comply with firm standards and security protocols. • Monitor and report on status of project efforts, including leading project status activities. Proactively manage project issues and risks (RAID log). Propose recommendations and solutions to resolve potential conflicts and risks. • Leverage shared team site, OneNote notebook, Smartsheet and mailboxes to ensure structure and access to communications, materials and documents for all project team members • Function as utility player across multiple areas on the team. The successful candidate will possess: • Strong written communication and PowerPoint skills, including developing storyboards and creating compelling narratives for diverse audiences. • Strong listening, facilitation and influencing skills with audiences of all management and leadership levels • Proficient Microsoft Office skills (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Word, Teams) • Strong critical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills • Self-motivation and minimal need for supervision • Excited by the prospect of working in a developing, ambiguous, and challenging situation • Ability to work well in a dynamic, complex, client, and team focused environment with minimal oversight and an agile mindset • Experience working independently as well as collaboratively across large teams • Strong attention to detail with a strategic, big-picture mindset • Ability to anticipate downstream impacts of requests • Skill in asking clarifying questions to gather information • Effective communication with diverse stakeholders at all levels • Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple priorities • Ability to drive and manage multiple projects independently, identifying interdependencies and prioritizing objectives and resources to drive expected outcomes. • Strong listening, facilitation and influencing skills with audiences of all management and leadership levels • Problem solving skills and consultative approach with an ability to collaborate with team members on best practices • A quick grasp of data governance and security concepts, and ability to convey their importance • Deep knowledge of: • Data security and data governance and how it is applied in the professional services industry • The data lifecycle management and lean data methodology • Client-problem solving • Knowledge of the professional services industry is preferred The team: Deloitte's Talent Innovation and Solutions (TIS) Digital & Analytics team implements and supports core, firmwide Talent applications leveraged to support key Talent strategies and processes. As Deloitte's People channel identifies opportunities to transform the way we deliver services, technology solutions will need to be implemented or updated to provide an enhanced experience to our professionals and to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness improvements across the channel. The Digital & Analytics (D&A), Data Governance & Security team focuses on driving data strategy, quality, ownership, and consumption across Deloitte's People channel. The team partners with various stakeholders to mitigate risks associated with Talent data and establish/enforce best practices. The team's responsibilities include establishing and socializing best practices on data use and data handling ethics, empowering Talent data consumers to be accountable for behaviors in relation to data, proactively managing data security and privacy using lean data methodologies and analyzing and coordinating data changes across Talent data systems. Qualifications: Required: • Bachelor's Degree; Minimum of 6 years of related experience or 4 years and a Masters in a relevant field • Proficiency in creating PowerPoint presentations with minimal supervision, demonstrated by at least 5 distinct decks that tell a concise story, synthesize complex information, and are visually engaging. • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future • Experience in identifying, recommending and implementing process improvements. • Ability to travel 0-5%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve Preferred: • Applied experience in data governance and/or data security and active directory (AD) groups. • Active experience serving on workstreams for complex projects, liaising with internal client counterparts and participating in project management and delivery discussions. The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $88,600 - $163,100. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. 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