Data Governance Lead - Hybrid Role in Worcestershire

Hewett Recruitment | BCorp; Cotswold District; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Wider benefits package

Job summary

Hewett Recruitment | BCorp is recruiting a Data Governance Lead to design and embed a practical data governance framework across the organisation. You will ensure data is owned, understood, controlled and trusted, moving beyond policy writing to practical implementation.

This newly created role requires delivering governance in practice, collaborating with privacy, security and compliance teams, and driving adoption across the business. Hybrid role with two days weekly in Worcestershire.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering data governance or enterprise data management initiatives.
• Strong understanding of data ownership, stewardship and data quality.
• Experience with metadata, lineage and business glossaries.
• Knowledge of a data management framework, such as DAMA-DMBOK.
• Experience working with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• An understanding of privacy, security and regulatory considerations.
• Familiarity with Azure, Databricks or similar technologies is useful.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the organisation’s data governance framework, policies and standards.
• Establish clear data ownership and stewardship responsibilities.
• Introduce practical data quality controls, measures and remediation processes.
• Improve the management of metadata, data definitions, business glossaries and lineage.
• Work with technology and data teams to build governance into new platforms and processes.
• Support major data migration and transformation activity.
• Work alongside privacy, security and compliance stakeholders.
• Engage senior stakeholders and encourage adoption across the wider business.

Skills

Data governance

Data ownership

Data quality

Metadata & lineage

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

Data cataloguing

Tools

DAMA-DMBOK

Job description

Hewett Recruitment | BCorp is recruiting a Data Governance Lead to design and embed a practical data governance framework across the organisation. You will ensure data is owned, understood, controlled and trusted, moving beyond policy writing to practical implementation.

This newly created role requires delivering governance in practice, collaborating with privacy, security and compliance teams, and driving adoption across the business. Hybrid role with two days weekly in Worcestershire.