Data Governance Analyst

Xcede Recruitment Solutions; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading recruitment solutions firm as a Data Governance Analyst. You will play a crucial role in enhancing data governance practices and data quality across teams while working with advanced cloud data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake, in a flexible remote-first environment.

Benefits

Remote-first environment

Flexible working

Competitive compensation

Equity participation

Collaborative team culture

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data governance, data quality, or data operations roles.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or Redshift.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Champion best practices in data governance and quality across teams.
• Collaborate with data engineering and compliance teams to improve governance frameworks.
• Build scalable reporting and automation workflows using SQL and Python.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Data operations

SQL

Python

CI/CD

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Redshift

Unity Catalog

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Our Client is seeking a hands-on Data Governance Analyst to join their growing data team and help shape the future of governance across our modern data ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to influence how data is structured, maintained, and trusted across the company, with exposure to cutting-edge technologies including Databricks, Snowflake, and Generative AI systems.
What You’ll Be Doing

• Champion best practices in data governance, data quality, and data stewardship across teams.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering, product, and compliance teams to establish and improve governance frameworks.
• Implement and maintain data quality monitoring, data profiling, and policy enforcement processes.
• Drive the use of Unity Catalog and similar tools for managing metadata and access control.
• Build scalable reporting and automation workflows using SQL, Python, and orchestration tools.
• Partner with stakeholders to improve data trust and culture across structured and unstructured datasets.
• Contribute to CI/CD practices for governance pipelines, using tools like Git, Jenkins, or similar.
• Explore the evolving AI and GenAI landscape, with a focus on data guardrails and filtering mechanisms.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in data governance, data quality, or data operations roles.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms – ideally Databricks, Snowflake, or Redshift on AWS.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation and automation.
• Familiarity with Unity Catalog, data cataloging, or lineage tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Purview).
• Understanding of structured and unstructured data management, profiling tools, and data quality metrics.
• Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and job orchestration.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and champion data ownership.
• A natural curiosity for AI and evolving technologies in data privacy, ethics, and security.

Why Join Us

• Work in a high-impact role that sits at the intersection of data, compliance, and emerging AI.
• Get exposure to an industry-leading GenAI stack with real-world production use cases.
• Remote-first environment with flexible working, competitive comp, and equity participation.
• A collaborative team culture focused on trust, innovation, and continuous learning.

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