Data Quality Senior Manager

AWE; Reading; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

Flexible working requests

9-day fortnight with 270 hours annual/

Job summary

AWE is seeking a Data Quality Senior Manager to lead the development and continuous improvement of data quality governance across the organisation. You will establish standards, controls, and issue management to ensure trusted, reliable data for decision-making.

In this role you will collaborate with Data Governance, Information Architecture and business stakeholders, drive improvement opportunities, and ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements while modelling AWE behaviours.

Qualifications

• Understanding of data quality, governance and data management in regulated environments.
• Knowledge of legal, regulatory and organisational data requirements.
• Degree level qualification in data management, information management or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience developing data quality standards, rules, guidance or improvement approaches.
• Experience supporting data quality issue management or data improvement activities.
• Experience working with Data Owners/Stewards or equivalent governance roles.
• Experience engaging stakeholders across complex organisations.
• Experience operating in regulated environments.
• Practical understanding of enterprise digital information, collaboration, and content management such as Microsoft 365/SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and maintenance of data quality governance across AWE.
• Establish and maintain data quality standards and rules.
• Develop data quality issue management arrangements with escalation routes and improvements.
• Collaborate with Data Governance, Information Architecture & Metadata and stakeholders.
• Identify common data quality themes and improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to the KIDM Centre of Excellence through integrated delivery.
• Ensure activities meet legal, regulatory, security and organisational requirements.
• Provide professional leadership within data quality expertise.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Regulated environments

Stakeholder engagement

Microsoft 365/SharePoint

Education

Degree in Data Management/Information Governance or equivalent

Tools

SharePoint

Job description

Role:

Data Quality Senior Manager

Location:

RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £50,060p.a

(depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern:

AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

To lead the development and continuous improvement of data quality governance arrangements across AWE, establishing the standards, controls, issue management approaches and improvement mechanisms required to support trusted, reliable and well-managed data across the organisation.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain Data Quality governance arrangements that support trusted, reliable and well-managed data across AWE.
• Establish and maintain Data Quality standards, rules and expectations that support consistent data quality management.
• Develop and maintain Data Quality issue management arrangements, including escalation routes, ownership expectations and improvement approaches.
• Work collaboratively with Data Governance, Information Architecture & Metadata and business stakeholders to ensure data quality requirements are reflected in data definitions, metadata and governance artefacts.
• Identify common data quality themes, issues and improvement opportunities, providing recommendations to support continual improvement.
• Contribute to the collective success of the KIDM Centre of Excellence through effective collaboration and integrated delivery across governance, compliance, capability and adoption functions.
• Ensure data quality governance activities support applicable legal, regulatory, security and organisational requirements.
• Provide professional leadership within own area of expertise, influencing stakeholders, promoting good practice and supporting delivery of organisational objectives whilst role modelling AWE behaviours.

Essential Criteria:

• Understanding of data quality, data governance and data management requirements within regulated or complex environments.
• Understanding of legal, regulatory and organisational requirements relating to data management and governance.
• Degree level qualification in Data Management, Information Management, Information Governance or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrable professional experience.
• Experience developing or supporting data quality, data governance or data management activities.
• Experience developing data quality standards, rules, guidance or improvement approaches.
• Experience supporting data quality issue management or data improvement activities.
• Experience working with Data Owners, Data Stewards or equivalent accountability-based governance roles.
• Experience engaging and influencing stakeholders across complex organisations.
• Experience operating within regulated or complex organisational environments.
• Practical understanding of enterprise digital information, collaboration and content management environments such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint or comparable platforms.

Work hard, be rewarded:

We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.