The data manager: linchpin in structured data management
As a data manager, you play a central role in managing, optimizing and protecting data within an organization. You develop data strategies, implement governance frameworks and increase the maturity of data processes. Thanks to your work, data is not only secure but also usable and reliable.
Data managers shift effortlessly between business and IT; they link stakeholders and ensure that data quality and structure align with strategic objectives. In short: as a data manager, you turn data into a true asset!
These skills make a data manager successful
Strong data managers move smoothly between strategy, execution and buy-in. These are the personal skills that make a difference:
- Strategic thinking: As a data manager, you translate business objectives into a clear data strategy that provides both direction and delivers results.
- Analytical capacity: Data managers analyze complex data issues thoroughly, with a focus on sustainable and scalable solutions.
- Stakeholder management: Support for data initiatives and policy arises from active collaboration with a wide range of parties.
- Communication skills: Data managers can clearly communicate the importance of good data management, motivating colleagues to take action.
- Process optimization: Continuous improvements in data management processes allow for greater efficiency and maturity within an organization.
Essential professional knowledge for data managers
What is data management? Data managers lay the foundation for reliable, structured and compliant data flows. This requires the following data management professional skills:
- Data governance: As a data manager, you develop frameworks and guidelines that ensure consistent and responsible use of data.
- Data quality: By actively guiding toward reliability, timeliness and completeness, data remains usable for analysis and decision-making.
- Master data management: A single centralized and reliable source prevents duplication, errors and the fragmentation of information.
- DAMA DMBOK: This international framework assists data managers in professionally organizing data management within organizations.
- Metadata & lineage: Data managers ensure insight into the origin, definitions and context of data. This is essential for transparency and control.
- Privacy legislation: Regulations such as the GDPR are translated into appropriate measures and safeguards within the data policy.
The must-have education for data managers according to Capgemini
Every data manager starts with a single clear basis: the DAMA DMBOK framework. This international standard gives you an overview of all domains within data management – from governance and data quality to modeling, metadata and security.
Your subsequent learning path then depends on your specialization. Are you working on data policy and compliance? Then you’re immersed in governance. Would you like to focus particularly on data infrastructure, modeling or quality? There are specific training courses for this as well. This way, you can put together your own pathway based on your ambitions.
Start with the basics:
- Introduction to Data Management based on DMBOK: This training course acquaints you with all important parts of data management and helps you understand them coherently.
Delve into the field that suits your role:
- Data Management based on CDMP Fundamentals: Prepare for the international CDMP exam and deepen your knowledge of data management principles.
- Data Management & Data Governance: Develop skills in drawing up data policy and implementing governance frameworks.
- Introduction to Data Quality: Learn how to evaluate and improve the reliability, currency and usability of data.
- Introduction to Master Data Management & Reference Data Management: Obtain insight into setting up a single central data source of consistent core data.
- Introduction to Data Modeling: Develop the skills needed to model data in a logical and visually structured way.
- Metadata Management: Understand how to manage and provide insight into the provenance, definitions and context of data.
- Data Security and Privacy in a Data-driven Organization: Learn how to translate laws and regulations into practical guidelines for data management.
- Introduction to Data Platforms: Get acquainted with the technical basis of modern data infrastructures.
View all data management training courses at Capgemini
Have you already laid the foundation with the DMBOK framework and now wish to expand your expertise further? Capgemini Academy offers many opportunities to deepen your knowledge in specialized topics within data management, and to reinforce your soft skills as a professional.
Deepen your knowledge with specialist training courses
After completing the introductory training courses, you can focus your learning on the domain of your choice. So whether it involves data quality, master data or modeling, these training courses will assist you in fulfilling your role as a data manager even more effectively.
- Data Quality – Advanced: Learn how to improve data quality structurally within complex data flows and organizational processes.
- Master Data Management & Reference Data Management – Advanced: Delve into governance, lifecycle management and the implementation of MDM solutions.
- Data Modeling – Advanced: Build on your modeling skills and learn how to use data models for scalable and robust information structures.
Expand your profile with additional perspectives
Would you like to expand your knowledge beyond the core of data management? Consider, for example, such topics as generative AI, cloud platforms or the interaction between humans and data. These training courses provide you with new insights and make you more broadly deployable:
- Introduction to GenAI: Discover how generative AI will also play a role within data management, and what this means for your profession.
- DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals: Gain insight into the cloud infrastructure underlying modern data solutions and platform-driven working.
Strengthen your personal effectiveness
As a data manager, you need not only substantive knowledge, but also communicative and analytical skills. These training courses help you present your story persuasively and to better understand behavior and cooperation – essential to guiding change and building buy-in.
Essential skills:
- Pyramid Principle: Present your story in a structured and convincing manner.
- Systematic Working: Work more efficiently by analyzing with clarity and acting in a structured way.
Additional skills:
- Storytelling: Transpose data into stories that resonate.
- Professional Presenting – Fundamentals (or Practitioner): Make more of an impact in meetings and presentations.
- Recognizing and influencing behavioral patterns with Insights: Understand how to recognize and guide behavior within teams, also in data-driven contexts.
Our experienced professionals are ready to share their knowledge and expertise with you!
Your springboard to success: Capgemini Academy
- Part of one of the largest, most innovative IT service providers in the world.
- A large range of training course offerings: available both fully online and in the classroom.
- Most training courses include certification and exams.
- Trainers with passion, didactic skills and practical experience.
- Average rating by course participants: 8.8
Do you have any questions about the role of the data manager, or about which training fits best for you? Please do not hesitate to contact us. We will be glad to share thoughts with you – also if you’re looking for custom courses for yourself or for your team.