Senior Data Governance & Strategy Lead

Inbox Business Technologies; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Inbox Business Technologies is seeking a Principal Consultant — Data Governance to own the data-and-AI governance relationship within a multi-vertical Strategy Execution & Value Realization Office. The role ensures initiatives are delivered with rigorous governance, measurable benefits, and architectural compliance.

The position involves senior mentorship, cross-vertical coordination, and executive reporting, with direct engagement with Enterprise Architecture and senior stakeholders to drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years in data governance or strategy execution.
• 3–5 years at principal/senior-advisory level with executive engagement.
• Experience designing governance operating models for large multi-workstreams.
• Experience engaging Enterprise Architecture and Architecture Review Boards.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the operating model, governance structure, methodologies, templates and tools used to run strategy execution governance for the data-and-AI vertical, as part of a broader multi-vertical governance office.
• Own cross-vertical coordination for the data-and-AI vertical — portfolio visibility, dependency mapping against other verticals, and escalation of issues that exceed a single vertical's authority.
• Own the governance framework for strategic-initiative delivery: stage gates, milestones, risk/issue/dependency management, budget oversight, quality and change-request governance across the vertical's strategic objectives and initiatives.
• Lead the governance relationship with the Enterprise Architecture function — coordinating Architecture Review Board participation, maintaining architecture decision records, and ensuring solution designs remain compliant with enterprise standards.
• Own the executive reporting relationship for the vertical: executive dashboards, portfolio reports, scorecards and decision-support insights, reported on an agreed cadence to senior stakeholders.
• Set the benefit-realization methodology for the vertical — defining success measures, validating business cases, and confirming that initiatives deliver expected value before closure.
• Develop and own governance frameworks, methodologies, standards, templates and playbooks used across the vertical's portfolio, including oversight of the KPI cascade tooling that connects strategic themes down to operational KPIs.
• Lead periodic maturity assessments of governance, portfolio management and value-realization capability, benchmarking against industry practice and directing improvement initiatives.
• Own transition and continuity planning for the vertical's governance function at the end of the current strategy horizon, including options for continuation, re-tender or in-house transition.
• Provide senior mentorship and quality oversight to the Senior Consultant supporting the vertical.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Governance leadership

Portfolio governance

Architecture coordination

Governance frameworks

Maturity assessments

Education

Bachelor's degree

CDMP certification preferred

PMP/PgMP or MoP preferred

Job description

Inbox Business Technologies is seeking a Principal Consultant — Data Governance to own the data-and-AI governance relationship within a multi-vertical Strategy Execution & Value Realization Office. The role ensures initiatives are delivered with rigorous governance, measurable benefits, and architectural compliance.

The position involves senior mentorship, cross-vertical coordination, and executive reporting, with direct engagement with Enterprise Architecture and senior stakeholders to drive