Assistant Director - Data Governance & Quality

Moody; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's seeks an Assistant Director-Data Governance to lead governance, quality, and integrity of critical data assets across the Relationships domain. You will define data standards, partner with stakeholders, and drive remediation programs to ensure trusted, business-ready data.

The role requires experience in data governance disciplines, metadata management, and data quality controls, with strong analytical and communication skills to influence across business and technology teams.

Qualifications

• Experience with Ownership, Individuals, or Sanctions data domains.
• Proven experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, or Data Management.
• Strong understanding of Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Master Data Management.
• Experience defining and implementing data quality controls and remediation processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across business and technology teams.
• DAMA CDMP or related Data Management certification preferred.
• Experience with metadata management, data lineage, data catalog, or data quality tooling preferred.
• Familiarity with Structured Query Language and data analysis techniques preferred.
• Basic understanding of AI concepts and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive governance, quality, and integrity of data assets across the Relationships domain.
• Define data requirements, business rules, data definitions, and ownership responsibilities with stakeholders.
• Drive data quality initiatives through measurement, monitoring, root cause analysis, and remediation programs.
• Develop and maintain data governance artifacts including glossaries, metadata, and definitions.
• Support master and reference data management to improve data usability.
• Track governance issues, risks, and actions with timely escalation.
• Facilitate governance forums and promote data accountability and adoption of best practices.
• Contribute to strategic data transformation and process improvement initiatives.

Skills

Ownership data

Data Governance

Data Quality

Metadata Management

Master Data Management

Data lineage

SQL

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Management

Tools

Data quality tooling

Metadata management tooling

Data catalog tooling

Job description

Moody's seeks an Assistant Director-Data Governance to lead governance, quality, and integrity of critical data assets across the Relationships domain. You will define data standards, partner with stakeholders, and drive remediation programs to ensure trusted, business-ready data.

The role requires experience in data governance disciplines, metadata management, and data quality controls, with strong analytical and communication skills to influence across business and technology teams.