Data Governance Manager

Data Governance Manager

3 months initially with extensions

London - hybrid

£500 - £540 per day inside IR35

Our client, is seeking a skilled Data Governance Manager to join their team for an initial three-month engagement. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to shaping and enhancing data governance practices within a dynamic environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Identify critical and sensitive datasets.
• Assess current governance maturity and risks.
• Review existing access controls and ownership arrangements.
• Define data ownership, stewardship and accountability models.
• Recommend a prioritised governance improvement roadmap.

What you'll bring:

• Experience identifying and assessing critical organisational datasets, understanding their business value, usage and associated risks.
• Ability to map and classify sensitive, regulated and business-critical data, supporting appropriate controls, access arrangements and compliance requirements.
• Experience reviewing existing data governance policies, procedures and controls, identifying gaps, inconsistencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Demonstrable experience assessing data ownership, stewardship and accountability arrangements, including identifying areas where ownership is unclear or absent.
• Strong understanding of data access management principles, including reviewing and improving approaches to granting, managing and monitoring data access.
• Experience analysing organisational structures and processes to identify governance, accountability and decision-making gaps relating to data.
• Ability to define and document data ownership, stewardship and accountability frameworks, working with business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of data governance operating models, including the relationship between data owners, product owners, technical teams and governance forums.
• Experience conducting governance maturity assessments and producing recommendations to improve governance capability and effectiveness.
• Ability to develop clear and practical governance artefacts, including ownership models, policies, standards, procedures and RACI frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with experience facilitating discussions to establish consensus on ownership, accountability and governance responsibilities.

• Understanding of how data governance supports broader data capabilities, including data architecture, data engineering, reporting, analytics and AI initiatives.
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory and compliance requirements, including GDPR, information management and data protection principles.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting the introduction of metadata management, data cataloguing or data classification approaches.
• Experience working within cross-functional data teams, collaborating with data architects, engineers, platform teams and business stakeholders.
• Understanding of data quality management frameworks and the roles and responsibilities required to support them.
• Experience working in Agile or product-based delivery environments.

Apply now to join a team committed to data excellence.

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