Data Governance Lead

Join Our Team as a Data Governance Lead. Are you passionate about data governance and ready to make a significant impact? We are seeking a proactive and experienced Data Governance Lead to shape and deliver our data governance strategy, ensuring our data is trusted, secure, and used effectively across the organisation. This is a new, high-impact role that will work cross-functionally to establish robust frameworks, policies, and processes that underpin data quality, compliance, and value creation.

About the role: The Governance lead will devise and implement data governance and master data management processes and derive data management structures and metadata to support consistent data retrieval, integration, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation across the organisation. You will independently validate external information from multiple sources, and plan effective data storage, sharing and publishing practices within the organisation. Identifying and addressing issues preventing optimal use of information assets, you will provide expert advice to maximise data asset value, ensuring data quality and compliance. The Governance Lead will lead on exploration of new approaches for data visualisation and establish the purpose and parameters of the data visualisation, overseeing the use of data visualisation tools and techniques.

Why You Should Apply:

• Lead the Way: Take charge of designing, implementing, and continuously improving our data governance framework, aligned to business priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with IT, data, risk, legal, and operational teams to embed governance into data lifecycle management.
• Drive Excellence: Champion data quality initiatives and support the resolution of data issues through root cause analysis and prevention.
• Champion a Data-Driven Culture: Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and increase the data literacy of the organisation by educating and engaging stakeholders.
• Shape the Role: This is a new role in our organisation, giving you the unique opportunity to shape and define it according to your vision and expertise.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience in a data governance, data management, or data strategy leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM) and data quality principles.
• Experience implementing governance tools or platforms (e.g. Collibra, Informatica, Alation) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of data protection laws and regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR).
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strategic mindset with a practical, delivery-focused approach.

With a strong understanding of governance frameworks, you will have the ability to identify, assess and mitigate governance related risks. We are looking for a candidate with experience in both IT and Business roles, with experience of working across different departments to understand the diverse business needs and how IT can address them.

If you are interested in furthering your career in an inclusive and supportive environment, apply to us today.

Equality Statement: We seek to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement: Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels that they belong and can make a meaningful contribution. We encourage applicants regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or parental status. We are an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation.