Data Governance Leader: Build & Scale Trusted Data Asset

Associated British Ports; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Associated British Ports is seeking a senior Data Governance Lead to design and implement ABP's data governance capability across policy, quality, stewardship, metadata, master data and privacy.

You will champion DAMA DMBOK-aligned standards, drive governance forums, define ownership models, and embed data controls with Legal, Risk and Security to protect and maximise data value across ABP's ports and digital platforms.

Qualifications

• You've built data governance frameworks from scratch with policies and standards.
• Knowledge of DAMA DMBOK and UK GDPR.
• Experience turning data quality, metadata, and lineage concepts into working processes.
• Ability to win over sceptical stakeholders, including non-technical ones.
• Familiarity with governance tooling like metadata/catalogue, lineage, quality monitoring, MDM, and Purview, in Microsoft, SAP, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and continuously improve ABP's data governance framework: policies, standards, decision rights, forums, and controls that make data a real business asset.
• Define ownership and stewardship models with roles, RACI, and escalation routes across a federated structure.
• Run governance forums, including the Council and stewardship forum, keep cadence, escalate issues, and follow through on decisions.
• Set data quality standards and scorecards, and work with stakeholders to fix problems at the source.
• Drive metadata, lineage, and a shared business glossary for priority data feeding regulatory, financial, or AI reporting.
• Embed classification, retention, access, privacy, and security controls with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Security.
• Support master and reference data governance, standards, stewardship, golden records, and matching.
• Ensure governance precedes scale, setting guardrails for new data products and AI use cases.
• Partner with architecture and platform teams to bake governance into the platform and tooling.

Job description

Associated British Ports is seeking a senior Data Governance Lead to design and implement ABP's data governance capability across policy, quality, stewardship, metadata, master data and privacy.

You will champion DAMA DMBOK-aligned standards, drive governance forums, define ownership models, and embed data controls with Legal, Risk and Security to protect and maximise data value across ABP's ports and digital platforms.