Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead

Mane Consulting; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mane Consulting is hiring a Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead in Australia. You will drive data quality initiatives, uplift data governance, and collaborate with diverse stakeholders across complex environments. You’ll help define data rules, improve integrity, and support a modern data platform rollout.

You will lead data governance activities, socialise quality standards, and deliver high-value analytics-ready datasets for governance, analytics and AI enablement.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of data governance, privacy, ethics and security.
• Strong data quality assurance and fitness-for-purpose evaluation.
• Experience with data collection methodologies and metadata.
• Ability to integrate datasets and apply quality controls.
• Strategic thinking with stakeholder engagement and clear communication.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead data quality activities, define, implement and socialise quality rules.
• Analyse data assets, gather business requirements and translate into governance solutions.
• Establish and maintain data rules, metadata, classifications and coding protocols.
• Integrate data from multiple operational systems using standard tools and coding languages.
• Conduct audits, detect inconsistencies and apply structured error-handling procedures.
• Produce high-quality data outputs, documentation, reports and artefacts.
• Build relationships with data stewards, SMEs, engineers, analysts and project teams.
• Support project planning, delivery cadence, testing and continuous improvement.
• Lead and mentor staff, fostering capability and high-performance culture.
• Promote ethical, secure and privacy-aligned data practices.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder engagement

Data integration

Privacy & security

Analytics insight

Communication

Mentoring teams

Excel advanced

Project leadership

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Job description

• 12 months Contract with extensions
• Brisbane / Melbourne / Adelaide / Hobart / Canberra
• Team Leadership

Get recognition and reward working in this data management Lead role where you’ll thrive on improving data quality, strengthening governance, and enabling confident, evidence-based decision-making. Join a major national program focused on uplifting data foundations, enhancing visibility of high-value datasets, and ensuring Australia’s most important data assets are fit-for-purpose for analytics, automation and AI.

As a Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead you will guide data quality initiatives, influence strategic data uplift, and work with diverse stakeholders across complex operational environments. Help define data rules, improve data integrity, integrate datasets, and champion best practice data management, all while supporting a modern data platform rollout.

What you’ll do

• Lead data quality activities, including defining, implementing and socialising data quality rules.
• Analyse data assets, gather business requirements and translate them into practical governance and quality solutions.
• Establish and maintain data business rules, metadata, classifications and coding protocols.
• Integrate and organise data from multiple operational systems using standard tools and coding languages.
• Conduct audits, detect inconsistencies and apply structured error-handling procedures.
• Produce high-quality data outputs, documentation, reports and technical artefacts.
• Build strong relationships with data stewards, SMEs, engineers, analysts and project teams.
• Support project planning, delivery cadence, testing and continuous improvement.
• Lead and mentor staff, fostering capability, wellbeing and high-performance culture.
• Promote ethical, secure and privacy-aligned data practices.

What you bring

• Deep knowledge of data access protocols, data governance principles, privacy, ethics and security.
• Strong capability in data quality assurance, integrity assessment and fitness-for-purpose evaluation.
• Experience with data collection methodologies, editing techniques, administrative data sources and metadata.
• Ability to integrate datasets, amend existing code, and apply quality controls.
• Strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement and clear communication skills.
• Microsoft Purview experience to support data discovery, classification and Governance.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical judgement.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, lead teams and deliver high-value project outcomes.
• Curiosity, adaptability and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Mane Consulting specialise in Data & Analytics.