Data Manager

Diversifying.io; Leeds; On-site; GBP 83,440 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

8% benefits allowance

26 days annual leave

Job summary

A financial services organization in the UK is seeking a Senior Manager for RegTech Delivery. This role will lead a Governance & Compliance team, manage agile planning, and ensure effective data governance across the organization. Ideal candidates should have significant experience in data governance within regulated settings, strong leadership skills, and a proven ability to engage with diverse stakeholders. They will also oversee a team while promoting an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data governance and compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior stakeholders.
• Proven leadership in diverse teams with a focus on inclusivity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Governance & Compliance team for data services.
• Oversee agile-based planning and execution for RegTech delivery.
• Collaborate across teams to embed agile delivery frameworks.

Skills

Leadership experience

Data governance skills

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Education

Experience in regulated organizations

Tools

Microsoft 365 practices

Job description

The Senior Manager, RegTech Delivery, Data Governance & Compliance is a member of the RDI leadership group and is accountable for delivering and evolving the PRA's RegTech delivery, data governance, and compliance capabilities. The role provides strategic and operational leadership across RegTech delivery and data governance functions, ensuring that technology-enabled regulatory solutions and data services are delivered effectively, governed robustly, and aligned with the Bank's strategic objectives.

The role holder leads RegTech Delivery, including a team of Delivery Managers, and owns the PRA's RegTech delivery framework. They are responsible for overseeing agile-based sprint planning, prioritisation, and execution, supported by clear delivery controls, risk management, and reporting. This includes ensuring effective technology service introduction, with appropriate operational readiness, governance, and assurance to enable sustainable live services.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead the Governance & Compliance team to deliver high‑quality business‑as‑usual data governance and compliance services that support ARTIS, PRA supervision, and wider Bank objectives.
• Provide senior leadership for the PRA's RegTech data governance responsibilities, ensuring the effective control, management, and ethical use of data in line with Bank‑wide policies, standards, and regulatory expectations.
• Ensure effective delivery of secretariat and governance functions for PDGG, PDDB, and PRA Data ExCo, including agenda setting, decision tracking, escalation of risks and issues, and the overall effectiveness of governance forums.
• Provide strong and proactive governance leadership for the Supervisory Analytics & Metrics (SAM) programme, shaping delivery plans, highlighting key risks, issues, and dependencies, and ensuring alignment with Bank‑wide data compliance and assurance expectations.
• Collaborate across RDI to embed and mature the RegTech agile delivery framework, maintaining end‑to‑end visibility of the RegSupTech product portfolio, actively managing product "stock and flow", and contributing to a prioritised, outcomes‑focused delivery backlog.
• Support the evolution of the SAM target operating model, contributing to the design and embedding of a federated Hub‑and‑Spoke development approach across the PRA and the wider Bank.
• Champion the adoption of SharePoint and associated information management practices across the PRA, driving governance, records management, and measurable efficiency and effectiveness benefits, with a view to future wider Bank adoption.
• Shape, manage, and govern a variable delivery and change budget supporting the Division's RegTech and data agenda, including ownership of resourcing decisions across Hub and Spoke teams, direct cost envelopes, and procurement activity.
• Play an active role in the collective leadership of the Division, including supporting horizontally delivered initiatives, removing delivery blockers, and enabling effective cross‑team and cross‑disciplinary working.
• Bring together colleagues across ARTIS, RDI, and Technology to resolve complex delivery and governance challenges, ensuring alignment with Bank‑wide data policies, delivery controls, and assurance frameworks.
• Promote an inclusive, high‑performing culture aligned with the Bank's values, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, multisite working, and inclusive recruitment and progression.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the RDI Target Operating Model, embedding more dynamic, squad‑based, cross‑divisional ways of working.

Role Requirements

• Significant experience in data governance, data management, compliance, information management or similar roles within a regulated or complex organisation.
• Strong team leadership experience, with the ability to build a positive, high performing and inclusive team culture.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse senior stakeholders across business, policy and technology functions.
• Proven ability to translate strategic objectives into team level deliverables and measurable outputs.
• Strong risk identification and problem solving skills, with experience providing constructive governance & compliance challenge.
• Experience delivering improvements in data governance processes, compliance controls and/or information management practices.
• A track record of project managing significant change programmes involving multiple collaborators and beneficiaries to an agreed schedule, budget and outcomes - including anticipating and handling dependencies, focusing on end users, and reflecting the priorities of business owners.
• Experience writing business cases for potential projects that require wider support, for example in terms of technology or operational processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse senior stakeholders across business, policy and technology functions.
• Excellent communication skills, able to convey complex issues clearly to decisionmakers.
• A track record of establishing effective working partnerships with others within the business and beyond it, including relationships with vendors.
• Ability to operate effectively in multisite working environments with colleagues working to a 40% minimum and 50% expected in office requirement.
• Commitment to Bank values including openness, integrity, diversity and continuous improvement.
• Experience in RegTech, data platform modernisation or federated development models.
• Understanding of supervisory processes and how data supports PRA supervisors and analysts.
• Previous involvement in Target Operating Model design and subsequent implementation and organisational transformation.
• Knowledge and experience embedding Microsoft 365 governance & compliance practices, with a focus on enabling all PRA staff to work more efficiently and effectively.
• Experience leading secretariat functions for senior governance committees, including supporting effective decision‑making and assurance
• Background in developing or managing data products within a complex organisation.
• Understanding of data quality, metadata and governance tooling.
• Experience working across policy, technology and operational teams to deliver structured engagement and outcomes
• Experience managing the introduction of new applications or platforms into a live, technology‑service‑managed state, including operational readiness, service transition, and alignment with support, assurance, and control frameworks.
• Familiarity with Bankwide or PRA specific governance frameworks, controls and standards.

This is a people management role. You will be responsible for day to day management of the team and for defining roles and responsibilities. You will develop your team through sharing information effectively, coaching and communicating a clear vision to ensure that your staff are productive, engaged and motivated to deliver the area's aims. This will include setting clear goals and smart stretching objectives that are aligned to those of the team, division and directorate. You will also be responsible for managing all staff-related matters that may arise including performance, absence and sickness. Number of direct reports: 3-5

We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

This role offers a salary of circa £83,440 - £93,000. In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

The Application Process

Important: Please ensure that you complete the 'work history' section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It's therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

The assessment process will comprise of two interview stages.

This role closes on 12th April

Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.