Data Governance & MDM Lead: Drive Quality & Stewardship

Amplius; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension contributions

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

State of the art IT equipment

Volunteer days

Job summary

Amplius Data Governance Lead role focuses on driving governance across the business, improving data quality and ownership while balancing practical delivery. You will lead the enterprise governance framework and chair key councils to align data definitions and priorities.

The role oversees the data catalogue, glossary, MDM activities and compliance programmes, ensuring clear accountability from source to dashboard. Hybrid working with UK locations offered.

Qualifications

• A degree or equivalent in Data or Information Management.
• Strong knowledge of UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act and information governance.
• Experience leading data governance in complex organisations.
• Experience designing or managing MDM and reference data governance.
• Experience improving data quality and managing data catalogues/glossaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise data governance framework, establish the Data Steward Network and chair the Data & Metrics Council to agree data definitions, ownership and priorities.
• Manage the enterprise data catalogue, business glossary, system-of-record map and data lineage, ensuring clear ownership, data classification and traceability from source to dashboard.
• Lead Master Data Management (MDM), including data matching, survivorship, golden-record stewardship and reference data governance across key business domains.
• Drive data quality management, maintaining quality rules and scorecards, investigating root causes, agreeing remediation plans and preventing recurring issues.
• Oversee data policies, privacy, security and regulatory compliance, maintaining audit evidence, information asset registers, data sharing agreements and retention schedules.
• Coordinate audit and compliance activities, control testing, access reviews and remediation, working with business owners, BI, data platform teams and risk specialists to strengthen governance and accountability.

Skills

Data governance

MDM

Stakeholder engagement

Data quality

Regulatory compliance

Education

Degree in Data or Information Management

Tools

Data catalogue

Glossary

Data lineage

System-of-record map

Job description

Amplius Data Governance Lead role focuses on driving governance across the business, improving data quality and ownership while balancing practical delivery. You will lead the enterprise governance framework and chair key councils to align data definitions and priorities.

The role oversees the data catalogue, glossary, MDM activities and compliance programmes, ensuring clear accountability from source to dashboard. Hybrid working with UK locations offered.