Global Delivery Director - DaaS LighthouseJoin to apply for the Global Delivery Director - DaaS Lighthouse role at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).LocationsBoston | LondonOverviewBoston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation—inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a collaboratively model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.What You’ll DoJoin Data Platform Engineering, a global platform team transforming our organization into a data-driven enterprise. Working within our Data Layer Team, you will help build essential data platforms, data products, and capabilities to empower our Case Teams (CTs), Practice Areas (PAs) and Business systems team with high-quality, actionable insights through data. Our focus is on creating scalable enterprise data solutions and advancing our data infrastructure to drive informed decision-making across the company tied to our AI Strategy.The Data as a Service Director will serve as the strategic and technical operational leader responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the organization’s data governance framework from the technical platform perspective. This role ensures data integrity, security, compliance, and usability across the enterprise while driving data quality, consistency, and maturity through a robust data asset lifecycle management solution. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including IT, legal, analytics, and business units, the Data as a Service Lead will establish and ensure technical platform governance policies and best practices that align with the organization’s strategic goals. This role balances strategic data vision, operational expertise, architecture-led design, and strong communication skills to foster a data-driven culture and enable innovation while ensuring regulatory compliance.ResponsibilitiesDrive an overall vision, roadmap, and priorities for Data as a Service framework, including supporting BCG’s Lighthouse Data as a Service FrameworkDesign, optimize, and implement a comprehensive data as a service framework that supports automation and data tools for internal and third-party dataAct as a liaison between business units, IT, and senior leadership to advocate for and execute data as a service policies, controls, and prioritiesDesign, deploy, and operate a Data Mesh layer so data products are consumable across BCG use casesPromote and communicate the benefits of data as a service to redefine data productsOwn the roadmap for all third-party data contracts, delivery platform, and optimization to make the organization more effective and AI-readyHelp define data as a service products that drive GenAI solutions and automation for data science capabilitiesData as a Service Products and Data Operations ManagementOwn and align roadmaps for data assets, catalog, third-party data, and end-user data as a service frameworkUse metrics to drive improvements and target focus leveraging ServiceNowBuild, deploy, and update data as a service metrics across platformsPartner with data catalog, governance, and platform teams to improve automation of data products and service capabilitiesBudget & ManagementManage/external data contracts and evolve third-party data providers and the delivery platformData Platform EnablementDefine and implement standards for integrating data governance into the enterprise data platformEnsure the platform supports metadata management, lineage tracking, and data quality monitoringDrive adoption of platform features that enable scalability, accessibility, and governance complianceQualifications10-12+ years of experience in data platform and Data as a Service roles (e.g., Data Management, Head of Data, CDO Office, or Data BI & Analytics) with global experienceInterest in solving business-oriented data challenges with precision and attention to detailUnderstanding of data strategy and management concepts and tools (Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Data Quality)Strong customer and business focus with ability to build effective working relationshipsHands-on experience with Data as a Service tools (Data Catalogs, Data products, Data Quality Tools)Knowledge of data constructs and domains (structured/unstructured), data technologies (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), and core transactional systems (e.g., SharePoint) related to DaaSGoal-oriented mindset and ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver DaaS capabilities and Data ProductsStrong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, capable of demonstrating governance benefits to senior teamsBachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related fieldWho You'll Work WithBCG Global Consulting Practice Areas and Enterprise Data teams: Data Product Portfolio, Data Governance CoE, Master Data Management, Enterprise Data Modeling, and Data Product development teamsBCG IT, Knowledge Team and PA data teams: BI and analytics, operations, and technical teamsBCG Leadership: Heads of IT, Practice Areas, Knowledge Function, and Enterprise ServicesThe Data Governance network: Data Owners, Stewards, and Data Governance DirectorsData Layer Team: collaborate with data engineers, enterprise architects, data stewards, data product analysts, and QA engineersAdditional infoFor US locations only. In the US, we have a compensation transparency approach. Total compensation includes base salary, annual discretionary bonus, retirement contribution, and a market-leading benefits package.Base salary range: $174,000 to $218,666.67. Specific range shared during hiring.Bonus up to a target percent and retirement contributions starting at 5% (moving to 10% after 2 years)Benefits include health insurance with low or zero premiums, dental, vision, gym reimbursements, fully vested retirement contributions, parental leave, PTO, holidays, and more.Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. BCG is an E-Verify employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr