Data Governance Leader — Hybrid Role to Drive Data Trust

Hewett Recruitment; Worcester; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Wider benefits package

Hybrid role

Job summary

Hewett Recruitment is sourcing a Data Governance Lead for a Worcestershire-based hybrid role. You will design and embed a practical governance framework to ensure data ownership, quality and trust across the organisation.

The role targets senior collaboration with tech and business teams, driving adoption and aligning with privacy, security and regulatory requirements. Up to £80,000 with bonus and benefits, two days per week at the Worcestershire office.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering data governance in practice.
• Understanding of ownership, stewardship and data quality.
• Experience with metadata, lineage and glossaries.
• Familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK framework.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate governance into practical processes and controls.

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

Ownership & stewardship

Metadata & lineage

Cloud platforms

Azure/Databricks exposure

Tools

DAMA-DMBOK

Data cataloguing tools

Job description

Hewett Recruitment is sourcing a Data Governance Lead for a Worcestershire-based hybrid role. You will design and embed a practical governance framework to ensure data ownership, quality and trust across the organisation.

The role targets senior collaboration with tech and business teams, driving adoption and aligning with privacy, security and regulatory requirements. Up to £80,000 with bonus and benefits, two days per week at the Worcestershire office.