AI-Ready Data Quality Lead

Ageas UK; Chandler's Ford; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

35 days holiday

Dental Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Annual Bonus Schemes

Competitive Pension

Job summary

Ageas UK is seeking a Data Quality Lead to design and implement a scalable Data Quality strategy across the enterprise, enabling improved governance and AI-ready data assets. The role requires collaboration with senior stakeholders to embed quality across migrations, integrations, and operations.

The candidate will lead a team of Data Quality professionals, grow Data Quality capabilities, and drive adoption of tools such as Collibra and Databricks Unity Catalog within a modern cloud environment

Qualifications

• Experience building and leading enterprise Data Quality strategy.
• Experience implementing data governance across large organisations.
• Ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience with data quality frameworks, monitoring, controls and issue management.
• Experience embedding Data Quality into data migrations and integrations.
• Proven leadership, coaching and development of Data Quality professionals.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver an enterprise Data Quality strategy and roadmap.
• Define goals and plans to improve Data Quality across people, processes, and technology.
• Build Data Quality capabilities to support data strategy and AI ambitions.
• Create practical Data Quality frameworks, controls, and processes across a complex organisation.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to influence decisions and drive outcomes.
• Translate business needs and regulatory requirements into Data Quality solutions.
• Support major data transformation programmes ensuring built‑in quality from the start.
• Lead adoption of Data Quality tools like Collibra and Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Improve data monitoring, reporting, and issue management.
• Collaborate with Data Owners and technology teams to improve data quality at source.
• Act as senior escalation point for Data Quality challenges.
• Provide guidance and coach teams to improve Data Quality skills and confidence.
• Lead and develop Data Quality specialists.

Skills

Enterprise data quality

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Data quality frameworks

Migrations & integrations

Leadership

Coaching data quality

Tools

Collibra

Databricks Unity Catalog

AWS

Azure

Job description

Ageas UK is seeking a Data Quality Lead to design and implement a scalable Data Quality strategy across the enterprise, enabling improved governance and AI-ready data assets. The role requires collaboration with senior stakeholders to embed quality across migrations, integrations, and operations.

The candidate will lead a team of Data Quality professionals, grow Data Quality capabilities, and drive adoption of tools such as Collibra and Databricks Unity Catalog within a modern cloud environment