Senior Data & AI Governance Consultant

Senior Data & AI Governance Consultant

Permanent

Location: Home Based - with travel to client sites

Salary: £90,000 - £95,000 (+ benefits)

Skills: Data Governance, AI Assurance, Metadata Management, SC Clearance

We are looking to recruit a Senior Data & AI Governance Consultant for a leading IT & Data Consultancy. You will help clients build robust data governance foundations and adopt responsible AI. You will create practical artefacts-policies, standards, operating models, and evaluation frameworks-that improve data quality, model reliability, risk posture, and compliance.

This is a hybrid role and although primarily home based you will be required to work on customer site when required

What you'll do

• Deliver data governance workstreams, including policies, stewardship models, RACI, data quality monitoring and remediation.
• Implement metadata and cataloguing: business glossaries, lineage, classification, and sensitivity labels.
• Contribute to AI assurance across the lifecycle, including training data preparation, model selection support, evaluation and monitoring, and operational governance.
• Produce clear artefacts: governance frameworks, procedures, evaluation plans, risk assessments, and assurance reports.
• Run stakeholder workshops, capture requirements, and translate into actionable designs.
• Support benefits tracking (e.g., data quality uplift, lineage coverage, model performance, incident reduction).
• Work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams and mentor junior consultants.

What you'll bring

• Proven experience in data governance delivery: policies, stewardship, data quality, metadata, privacy, and protection.
• Practical understanding of AI assurance: data preparation, model selection, evaluation, monitoring, and lifecycle governance.
• Strong consulting skills: problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to work under broad direction and lead workstreams independently.
• Active SC clearance and willingness to travel to UK client sites.

Desirable: Experience in UK Central Government, Defence, or other regulated environments; familiarity with AI and data frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK, NIST AI RMF, ISO 23894, ISO 27001, GDPR/DPA 2018); hands-on with platforms such as Microsoft Purview, Azure ML, Databricks, Power BI, Collibra, or Alation; exposure to MLOps practices.