Senior Data Quality & Governance Lead - 12-Month Contract

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

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.