Data Governance Lead

Description:

This role offers genuine ownership rather than incremental responsibility.

The Data Governance Lead will act as the organisation's subject matter authority on data governance and data security controls, strengthening the frameworks and safeguards that underpin the safe management of information across the business.

Alongside the defensive aspects of data governance and security, the role will also contribute to ensuring that the organisation's data assets are structured, reliable and usable for commercial insight, analytics and decision-making.

You will therefore work closely with both technical teams and commercial stakeholders, ensuring that data governance supports not only regulatory and security requirements but also high-quality business intelligence, segmentation and analytical insight.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of governance, risk and commercial data strategy, and who wants to shape how a growing organisation manages and leverages its data assets.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for strengthening the organisation's approach to both defensive and offensive data strategy.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and enhancing the organisation's data governance framework, policies and standards
• Strengthening data security controls across systems, platforms and datasets
• Implementing governance around identity and access management, encryption, retention and data lifecycle management
• Overseeing third-party and supplier data risk, including due diligence and governance of external datasets
• Ensuring high levels of data integrity, quality and consistency across large datasets
• Supporting remediation initiatives relating to data security, cyber risk and governance gaps
• Providing structured reporting on data risk exposure and governance maturity to senior stakeholders
• Working with Technology, Compliance and Commercial teams to ensure data is governed responsibly while remaining commercially useful

In addition, the role will help ensure that governance practices support the organisation's ability to derive meaningful insights from data, including:

• improving the reliability of datasets used for business intelligence and analytics
• ensuring high-quality data inputs for reporting, segmentation and commercial insight
• supporting initiatives that enable the organisation to use its data more effectively for customer engagement and decision-making

Candidate Profile

We are seeking a pragmatic and intellectually curious data professional who combines strong governance discipline with an appreciation for how organisations derive value from their data.

You will likely bring experience in areas such as:

• data governance frameworks and implementation
• information security or data security controls
• information or data risk management
• data protection and regulatory governance
• third-party or supplier data assurance
• data quality, lifecycle and integrity management