At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead data and AI governance for a major global transformation programme.
- Company: Join Weir, a world-leading engineering business focused on sustainability.
- Benefits: Flexible remote work, international travel, and opportunities for personal growth.
- Other info: Be part of an inclusive team dedicated to innovation and excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment while shaping the future of data governance.
- Qualifications: Experience in data governance and strong collaboration skills required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Location - US / UK / India
Remote with International Travel
Purpose of Role: Designs, embeds, and operates enterprise grade data and AI governance across the S4+ programme, ensuring data, analytics, and AI assets are trusted, compliant, and ready for scale. The role works into the Data Workstream and is responsible for delivery, ensuring that data, analytics and AI assets created or impacted by S4+ are trusted, compliant, well governed and ready for scale.
About the S4+ Programme: The Weir Group is undertaking S4+, a major global business transformation programme built around SAP S/4HANA. S4+ is far more than an IT or systems upgrade — it is an enterprise-wide transformation encompassing process redesign, data harmonisation, operating model change, and cultural change across Weir. S4+ will replace Weir’s legacy systems with a single, integrated global operating model built on common standards and a single source of truth, transforming end-to-end value streams across Finance, Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing, Service, Manufacturing, and Engineering/Innovation/PLM (HR excluded, having already transitioned to Workday). Data and AI capabilities are an explicit enabler of the programme’s strategic goals, making trusted data, governance, and Responsible AI controls foundational to successful delivery and sustainable value post go-live.
Why choose Weir:
- Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive.
- An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel.
- Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own delivery of Data & AI governance for S4+: Provide a single accountable owner for governance delivery across S4+, ensuring consistent standards, controls, and adoption readiness.
- Embed ownership, stewardship, data quality, privacy, security, and Responsible AI controls by design: Ensure solutions are safe, trusted, and scalable by embedding controls into delivery and operating routines.
- Work in close partnership with the Transformation Data & AI Architect: Ensure architectural decisions are supported by appropriate governance controls.
- Track, report, and escalate data & AI risk and compliance: Make risk visible early, manage it actively, and ensure timely escalation where delivery or enterprise obligations are threatened.
- Ensure governance artefacts and controls are BAU-ready post go-live: Ensure BAU inherits a working governance operating model, not just documentation.
Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:
- Knowledge: Data governance, data management and Responsible AI practices. Privacy, security, regulatory and AI risk obligations.
- Skills: Translation of policy into executable controls. Facilitation, escalation and risk articulation. Collaboration with architecture, delivery, legal, security and risk.
- Capabilities: Embed governance into delivery without slowing progress. Operate as first line governance accountability.
- Experience: Delivering data governance and/or AI governance in large programmes. Embedding ownership, stewardship, data quality and Responsible AI by design.
Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.
Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
Data & AI Governance Lead – S4+ in Glasgow employer: Weir
Weir is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and inclusive work culture, empowering employees to shape their own career paths while contributing to meaningful global initiatives. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, Weir offers extensive growth opportunities and the chance to collaborate with leading partners in the technology landscape, all within a supportive environment that values individual contributions and wellbeing.
