Data Governance Lead

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Data Governance Lead
£75,000 Permanent North West, hybrid
Build enterprise data governance from a standing start, for a UK listed group, with the executive team already behind you.
Most data governance roles have already made decisions, and the role is already decided. This one is slightly different.
A UK listed group is building enterprise data governance from scratch and looking for the person to design it, run it and be accountable for it. Not to administer a framework somebody else wrote, but to decide what the framework is.
Background
Governance has been tried here before and it did not stick, for a reason worth being honest about: there was no executive backing. That has changed, and changed hard.
Data governance is now a named material business control under Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code, with a board level attestation deadline in March. It is reported in the annual report. The CFO, who has done this before and understands controls properly, owns the agenda. The four priority data domains have already been signed off at executive level. Senior stakeholders are currently asking the hiring manager what they can do to help.
That is an unusual starting position, and it is the difference between a governance role that produces a policy library nobody reads and one that changes how a large business runs.
The scope
Four data domains, customer, product, colleague and clinical, across a group carrying UK GDPR obligations, FCA regulated activity and sector specific clinical regulation. Genuinely varied data, genuinely different control requirements, at real scale.
In year one you will design a proportionate framework, work out which data actually matters, land the policies, agree ownership, build a working steward network across the business, and produce the evidence the board needs to attest.
You will not fix everything by March and nobody expects you to. What is wanted is a minimum viable framework that proves its value and can be built on. The ambition after that is significant: catalogue, master data, lineage, and in time the governance of AI as the technology roadmap matures. xgikmsk
One thing to be clear about
There is no tooling budget in year one.
This is deliberate. The organisation wants value demonstrated first and a business case for a platform built on evidence, not on fai

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