Data Governance Manager

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Data Governance Manager

Location: London (Hybrid)

They're looking for a Data Governance Manager who can turn complexity into clarity, build trust into data at scale, unlock responsible access, and lay the foundations for analytics, AI, and smarter decisions across the business.

The Opportunity

This role leads the design and delivery of a company-wide data governance strategy to ensure data is trusted, compliant, and consistently used to support decision-making. You will establish clear data ownership and stewardship, working closely with teams across the business to embed accountability and best practice. The role is responsible for setting pragmatic governance policies that balance control with accessibility, enabling innovation while managing risk.

You will champion high standards of data quality, documentation, and transparency, helping colleagues confidently understand and use data. As a senior advocate for governance by design, you will foster a strong culture of data literacy, responsibility, and continuous improvement as the organisation grows.

This role leads the design and delivery of a modern data governance strategy across a cloud-based data platform, ensuring data is trusted, compliant, and scalable. You will work closely with Data Engineering to define data domains, ownership, and stewardship across the organisation, leveraging platforms such as GCP and Big Query. The role is responsible for establishing data quality, lineage, metadata, and documentation standards using governance and transformation tooling including Dataplex and dbt.

You will implement and oversee access controls and privacy-by-design processes, including IAM policies and regulatory impact assessments. Acting as a governance leader within the data function, you will enable analytics, ML, and AI use cases while embedding strong data literacy and accountability across the business.

• Introductory Conversation - Technical Deep Dive
• Culture Fit with CTO

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