Senior Data Governance Manager

Senior Data Governance Manager Opportunity - Finance/Assurance/Insurance experience beneficial

Strategy Execution & Change Delivery:

• Work directly with the Head of Data Governance & Quality to translate the data governance strategy into a sequenced, resourced delivery plan, owning the roadmap and priorities list, defining success measures, and reporting progress and slippage to senior leadership.

• Own delivery of governance change initiatives end to end, building the evidenced case for change, securing the decisions and funding to proceed, and driving through to implementation and adoption.

• Co-ordinate data engineers, domain leads, system owners and data owners to make agreed changes holding each party accountable, unblocking where progress stalls, and agreeing ownership and controls at handover so change sticks.

ESSENTIAL

• The four criteria below are the basis on which candidates should be shortlisted and assessed.

• Change delivery - Proven ability to drive initiatives to completion across teams the postholder does not manage - planning, sequencing, co-ordination, escalation and follow-through. The primary differentiator for this role.

• Presentation & communication - Consultancy-level written and presentation skills. Able to produce board-quality papers and decks and present them credibly to a senior audience.

• Thought leadership - Credibility in data governance practice. Able to bring an informed external perspective, help shape the internal narrative alongside the Head of Data Governance & Quality, and raise capability in others.

• Senior stakeholder management - Track record of partnering with and influencing senior business stakeholders, including at executive level, and of navigating competing priorities without direct authority.

IMPORTANT

• Governance experience - Substantial experience in data governance, data management or a closely related discipline in a large, complex organisation.

• Governance framework & forums - Experience building governance frameworks, policies or standards and getting them adopted, and running or supporting governance forums and boards: agenda setting, papers, decision capture and action follow-through.

• Issue & backlog management - Experience owning an issue backlog through to resolution - triaging, prioritising against business impact, assigning to accountable owners and escalating stalled remediation.

• Analytical skills - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to frame complex data issues as business problems with clear options and recommendations.

• Technical skills - Working SQL and Power BI - sufficient to interrogate data, validate evidence behind proposals and quality-assure governance reporting. A working tool, not the focus of the role.

• Platform - Familiarity with the Microsoft Azure stack and Databricks.