Project Specialist Data Governance (m/f/d)
Employer · Deutsche Telekom
Pécs
We are looking for an experienced specialist to support a group-wide HR Data Governance project within Deutsche Telekom. In this role, you will help improve HR data quality, establish effective governance processes, and translate strategic concepts into practical solutions. You will work closely with HR, IT, and business stakeholders and coordinate your own project workstreams.
Tasks
- Translating data quality frameworks into practical rules, processes, responsibilities, and measures
- Coordinating the implementation of data quality standards with business units and system owners
- Identifying, prioritizing, and tracking data quality issues and corrective actions
- Adapting group-wide governance principles to diverse organizational structures and systems
- Collaborating with data owners, data stewards, HR, IT, and other stakeholders
- Creating concepts, decision papers, and status updates for project management
- Converting insights from pilot projects into repeatable standards and processes
- Managing complex sub-projects and workstreams with a clear scope, responsibilities, and deliverables
- Planning and coordinating project activities, timelines, resources, and budgets
- Providing professional guidance to project team members and ensuring effective stakeholder communication
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating project risks
- Supporting project reporting, decision-making, and continuous process improvement
Conditions & benefits
Remote WorkRemote work is only available within Hungary due to European tax regulations
Requirements
- Experience in data quality or data governance, contributing to the definition or improvement of data standards, quality rules, responsibilities, or governance processes
- Ability to translate concepts into practice and explain how high-level requirements turn into operational roles, processes, controls, metrics, and measures
- Experience in complex organizations working across multiple functions, units, or decentralized areas
- Ability to navigate diverse needs and maturity levels across organizational structures
- Ability to manage project work, including structuring and coordinating projects or sub-projects
- Ability to clarify responsibilities, track progress, and deliver reliable updates
- Cross-system perspective with the understanding that data is created, maintained, and used across multiple processes and systems
- Ability to collaborate effectively with IT and business teams
- Strong stakeholder and communication skills
- Ability to explain complex topics clearly and adapt communication to the target audience
- Ability to achieve alignment across different groups
- Structured implementation approach with clear documentation of decisions and measures
- Ability to track responsibilities and escalate issues when needed