Data Governance Lead - Hybrid, Milton Keynes

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Role Profile

The Data Governance Manager will be responsible for establishing and embedding effective data governance across ICAEW. This role will ensure that data owners are identified across the institute, supported to understand their stewardship responsibilities, and held accountable for maintaining data quality. In addition, the Data Governance Manager will provide oversight within the Data function itself, ensuring that the Data Engineering, Data & BI, and other data activities operate consistently under agreed standards, frameworks, and controls.

Responsibilities include:

• Define, implement, and maintain the organisation's data governance framework, policies, and standards.
• Provide governance and oversight across the Data function, ensuring internal teams apply consistent practices, processes, and controls.
• Identify, assign, and support data owners and data stewards across business functions, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities.
• Educate and advise senior stakeholders on best-practice data stewardship, ensuring data is managed in line with organisational, regulatory, and ethical standards.
• Act as the escalation point for data governance issues, including disputes, challenges, and accountability in cases of data inaccuracy or misuse.

Candidate Profile

Requirements include:

• Extensive experience in data governance, data management, or related roles.
• Practical understanding of data quality, data stewardship, and master data management.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and holding business leaders accountable for outcomes.
• Knowledge of data protection legislation (e.g. GDPR) and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience of operating within a complex organisation with multiple stakeholders.

Why work for us?

We want you to enjoy your work and flourish in your role. Our working environment is friendly and supportive, and we encourage everyone to understand personal differences and treat each other with respect. We are a diverse organisation, employing skilled and motivated people from all backgrounds and helping them to reach their full potential, through training and development. Sustainability is important to us, and we work hard to reduce our carbon footprint, whether that's in our buildings through lighting and heating, or encouraging staff to recycle and reduce paper consumption.

Our employee benefits include:

• A substantial suite of training and development
• Flexible working arrangements
• A generous benefits package which includes gym discounts, pension plan, season ticket travel loans and health and dental plans

We are a disability confident employer. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.