Data Governance Consultant in Cardiff

We’re looking for a Data Governance Consultant to help us improve how we define, manage and use our data across the organisation. The role plays a key part in ensuring our critical data is well‑understood, high quality, and used responsibly to support business decisions, regulatory obligations and transformation activity. You’ll work closely with data owners, data stewards, change and IT teams, offering practical guidance and subject‑matter expertise across data governance, data quality and metadata management.

What you’ll be doing:

• Data governance: Working with data owners and change teams to define and document critical data
• Supporting the embedding of clear data ownership and governance practices
• Producing data governance metrics and insight to track progress and maturity
• Establishing and running data quality checks on critical data and processes
• Monitoring, logging and reporting on data quality trends
• Supporting data and process owners to resolve data quality issues
• Carrying out data profiling to inform projects and business change
• Managing and improving the organisation’s metadata repository
• Helping teams better understand the data estate through metadata and lineage
• Identifying innovative ways to use metadata to support impact analysis, efficiency and change delivery

Consultancy & Advisory Support:

• Providing advice to projects and teams impacting organisational data
• Acting as a trusted subject‑matter expert in data governance, reference data and data quality tools
• Ensuring change activity aligns with agreed standards, policies and regulatory expectations

What we’re looking for:

You don’t need to tick every box to be successful in this role. We’re keen to hear from people who bring a mix of the following skills and experiences:

• Experience & Knowledge: Experience working in a data governance, data management or data quality role; a good understanding of data governance principles, frameworks and best practice (e.g. DAMA or similar); experience working with business stakeholders to define and document data or requirements; exposure to metadata management, data lineage or data quality tooling such as Alation or similar.
• Technical Skills: Confidence working with different types of data, such as customer, transactional, financial or reference data; experience using data quality tools, data analysis or querying tools (e.g. SQL or similar); an understanding of how data supports reporting, analytics and decision‑making.
• Ways of Working: Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and identify patterns or issues; clear, confident communication skills, with the ability to work across technical and non‑technical audiences; a practical, collaborative approach and a willingness to suggest and implement improvements.

Benefits:

• Flexible hybrid working – Our award‑winning approach gives you the flexibility to work from home and from the office. Collaboration matters to us, so you’ll spend at least 8 days per month based in our Cardiff office.
• A truly inclusive workplace – Proudly named in the 2025 Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List, ranked 27th, recognising our ongoing commitment to inclusion and belonging.
• Customer excellence you can be proud of – Winners of Double Gold Awards for Customer Satisfaction at the Fairer Finance Awards 2025 for both Savings and Mortgages.
• Engaged, supported colleagues – Our colleague engagement scores consistently exceed 85%, reflecting a positive and supportive culture.
• Wellbeing at the heart of what we do – Our Belong benefits package is designed to put our people first, supporting your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

If you’re excited by the opportunity to make a positive impact through data, we encourage you to apply.

Contact: recruitment@principality.co.uk