Data Governance Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Evolve the data governance framework — Working from existing policies, help create standards and procedures for how data is defined, classified, and accessed across the organisation's data estate.
• Manage adherence to the data ownership model — Identify data owners across the business, clarify their roles, and coordinate their day-to-day governance activities.
• Lead a data governance council or working group — Run recurring forums with stakeholders from IT, Legal, Compliance, and the business to make decisions on data policy, resolve disputes, and prioritise initiatives.
• Define and monitor data quality standards — Set data quality rules and KPIs, oversee data quality assessments, and drive remediation of issues with the teams that own the data.
• Develop the IG governance tooling — Ensure business glossaries and data dictionaries are accurate , complete, and kept up to date, and help implement and administer the underlying tooling.
• Manage data access and classification s — Oversee how data is classified (e.g. public, internal, confidential, restricted) and work with Security/IT to enforce appropriate access controls.
• Support audits and risk assessments — Act as the point of contact for internal/external audits related to data handling, providing documentation and evidence of governance controls.
• Champion data literacy and culture change — Develop communication plans to build awareness of governance policies and encourage responsible data practices across the organisation.