Data Governance Architect — Build Standards & Stewardship

ABP; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remuneration package

Employer pension

Private health insurance

Other benefits

Job summary

ABP, the UK's largest ports operator, is seeking a Data Governance Manager to build a mature governance capability from the ground up. You will define policies, standards, ownership models, and forums to ensure data is trusted, governed and usable for regulatory, financial and AI reporting.

You will lead the governance forums, set data quality and metadata standards, and partner with Architecture and Platform teams to bake governance into the data platform, while working with Legal, Risk and

Qualifications

• You've built data governance frameworks from scratch. You've written the policies, set the standards, and made them stick.

Responsibilities

• You'll build and continuously improve ABP’s data governance framework: policies, standards, decision rights, forums, and controls that make data a real business asset.
• You'll define who owns what, a clear ownership and stewardship model with roles, RACI, and escalation routes across a federated structure.
• You'll run the governance forums, including the Council and stewardship forum, keeping cadence, escalating issues, and following through on decisions
• You’ll set data quality standards and scorecards, and work with stakeholders to fix problems at the source, not just monitor them.
• You’ll drive metadata, lineage, and a shared business glossary so people can find, trust, and trace priority data, especially where it feeds regulatory, financial, or AI reporting.
• You’ll embed classification, retention, access, privacy, and security controls with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Security, escalating and evidencing data protection issues to the DPO.
• You’ll support master and reference data governance, including standards, stewardship, golden records, and matching, to drive consistency across the business.
• You’ll make sure governance comes before scale, setting the guardrails new data products and AI use cases need before going beyond a pilot.
• You’ll partner with architecture and platform teams to bake governance into the platform and pick the right tooling, including catalogue, quality, lineage, and MDM, rather than bolt it on afterwards

Skills

Data governance

DAMA DMBOK

Data quality

Metadata

Lineage

Master data (MDM)

Purview

Stakeholder mgmt

Azure

SAP

Tools

Purview

MDM

Catalogue

Lineage

Microsoft

SAP

Job description

ABP, the UK's largest ports operator, is seeking a Data Governance Manager to build a mature governance capability from the ground up. You will define policies, standards, ownership models, and forums to ensure data is trusted, governed and usable for regulatory, financial and AI reporting.

You will lead the governance forums, set data quality and metadata standards, and partner with Architecture and Platform teams to bake governance into the data platform, while working with Legal, Risk and