Data Governance Specialist – Defence Programme

Raytheon UK; Winnersh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension

Life Assurance

Holiday entitlement

Company bonus

Flexible benefits

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Job summary

Raytheon UK is seeking a Programme Data Steward based in Winnersh, UK. This hybrid, permanent role focuses on aligning data across systems, improving repositories, and supporting future system changes.

Attendance at Winnersh and other programme locations is required for workshops, setup, migration, testing and training. You will work with business owners and programme teams to ensure data quality, governance, and traceability, applying established data management plans and security controls

Qualifications

• Applied knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK CDMP or comparable professional data management principles.
• Hands‑on data management experience in a complex, regulated or multi‑organisation environment.
• Thorough understanding of data lifecycle control, data quality, document management and information governance, including the relationship between data, assets, configuration and change control.
• Experience in creating, maintaining and applying Data Management Plans, organisational procedures and agreed controls.
• Practical experience using SharePoint to structure, maintain and govern information repositories.

Responsibilities

• Apply Delta Programme and CMDC Configuration Management and Data Management plans, processes and standards, and support the maintenance of Data Management plans and procedures.
• Maintain records of data ownership, authoritative sources, classification, lifecycle status, decisions, exceptions and corrective actions.
• Define and maintain metadata, naming conventions, taxonomies, identifiers, data definitions and cross-system mappings.
• Monitor data quality, compare anticipated and received data against agreed requirements, and coordinate resolution with accountable owners.
• Support the design, set-up, testing and ongoing maintenance of SharePoint libraries, structured file-based repositories and future systems.
• Support controlled data migration and repository reorganisation while preserving provenance, classification, access controls and traceability.
• Maintain data lineage and contribute to the Programme Information Model linking requirements, courseware, media, devices, assets, deliverables and configuration records.
• Apply lifecycle controls from creation or receipt through validation, use, retention and authorised disposal.
• Maintain and reconcile physical and digital asset information, including identity, ownership, custodianship, location, status, version and relationships.
• Coordinate and record controlled data transfers to and from customers, suppliers and programme teams, including the receipt of amendments and final programme handover, ensuring provenance, security, acceptance status and authorised changes of ownership or custodianship are recorded.
• Integrate data management with configuration and change control by providing reliable data quality, lineage and impact evidence.
• Apply security, classification, access, handling and distribution controls for sensitive or classified information and elevate material concerns.
• Produce management reports and evidence to support programme, customer and supplier reviews and audits.
• Maintain records of decisions, procedures and working practices to support knowledge transfer, programme handover and continuous improvement.

Skills

Data governance

DAMA-DMBOK CDMP

Data lifecycle

SharePoint

MS 365

Tools

SharePoint

Windchill

Kahootz

Jira

Power BI

Job description

Raytheon UK is seeking a Programme Data Steward based in Winnersh, UK. This hybrid, permanent role focuses on aligning data across systems, improving repositories, and supporting future system changes.

Attendance at Winnersh and other programme locations is required for workshops, setup, migration, testing and training. You will work with business owners and programme teams to ensure data quality, governance, and traceability, applying established data management plans and security controls