Data Governance Coordinator: Data Quality & Stewardship

Talent Octopusventures; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

ICIS is seeking a Data Governance Coordinator to ensure data assets are managed as products with governance, quality, metadata, and standards applied across the estate. You will link central data capabilities with Data Stewards, driving adoption of governance practices and improving data transparency within the organisation.

You will collaborate across business, engineering, and central teams to embed governance into delivery and maintain data lineage visibility, contributing to trusted

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating data governance across multiple datasets/products.
• Understanding of data ownership and stewardship concepts.
• Knowledge of metadata management and data catalog practices.
• Ability to monitor data quality and ensure governance compliance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee defined datasets and data products across the Lakehouse and data estate.
• Ensure data products have clear ownership through Data Stewards.
• Track completeness, maturity, and usability of data products.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise governance standards and escalate when not met.
• Embed governance requirements into delivery and change processes.
• Drive completeness, quality, and discoverability of metadata and catalogue information.
• Monitor data quality outcomes, identify gaps, prioritize issues.
• Promote transparency by capturing data lineage and coordinating across teams.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Data quality

Metadata management

Data catalog

Collaboration

Excellent communication

Job description

ICIS is seeking a Data Governance Coordinator to ensure data assets are managed as products with governance, quality, metadata, and standards applied across the estate. You will link central data capabilities with Data Stewards, driving adoption of governance practices and improving data transparency within the organisation.

You will collaborate across business, engineering, and central teams to embed governance into delivery and maintain data lineage visibility, contributing to trusted