Enterprise Data Architect & Governance Lead - 9-month engagement (UK Remote)

Turnitin, LLC

Newcastle upon Tyne

Remote

GBP 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote First Culture

Health Care Coverage*

Education Reimbursement*

Competitive Paid Time Off

Self-Care Days

National Holidays*

2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed

Paid Volunteer Time*

Charitable contribution match*

Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimb

Access to Modern Health (mental health

Parental Leave*

Retirement Plan with match/contrib*

Job summary

Turnitin, LLC is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance Lead to define the future use of data across the business. You will assess current reporting, define target-state architecture, and provide a roadmap enabling scalable, trusted information for executives.

You’ll collaborate with finance, product, HR, engineering and other leaders to standardize metric definitions, establish ownership, and drive governance across the enterprise.

Qualifications

Experience in enterprise data governance and architecture.
Proven ability to define governance frameworks, ownership models and metric standards.
Experience supporting Executive, Board & Investor Reporting.
Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
Familiarity with privacy considerations relating to customer and employee data.

Responsibilities

Assess current reporting and analytics landscape.
Identify root causes of fragmented reporting and conflicting metrics.
Define ownership and governance principles for critical enterprise data.
Develop a high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics.
Establish standards for enterprise metric definitions and trusted reporting.
Recommend operating model balancing enterprise consistency with functional autonomy.
Produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment.
Facilitate alignment across executive and business stakeholders.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Governance

Analytics governance

Executive/Board reporting

Metric definition & stewardship

Cross-functional stakeholder mgmt

Data quality & controls

Privacy considerations

Strong facilitation

Tools

Salesforce

ERP/HRIS data environments

Job description

The Opportunity

Turnitin is looking for an experienced Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance Lead to help define the future of how we use data to run our business.

Over time, our reporting capabilities have evolved across multiple functions including Finance, Revenue Operations, Product, HR and Engineering. Whilst these capabilities provide value locally, they have developed independently, resulting in inconsistent metric definitions, fragmented ownership and varying levels of confidence in enterprise reporting.

This role represents a unique opportunity to shape Turnitin’s enterprise data strategy by establishing the foundations for trusted, scalable and decision-ready information.

Working closely with executive stakeholders across the organisation, you will assess our current environment, define a practical target state and provide a roadmap that enables future execution.

What you’ll do

Assess Turnitin's current reporting and analytics landscape;
Identify the root causes of fragmented reporting and conflicting metrics;
Define ownership and governance principles for critical enterprise data;
Develop a high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics;
Establish standards for enterprise metric definitions and trusted reporting;
Recommend an operating model that balances enterprise consistency with functional autonomy;
Produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment;
Facilitate alignment across executive and business stakeholders.

What success looks like

A shared understanding of its current data landscape;
Clear ownership of priority enterprise metrics;
Improved confidence in Executive and Board reporting;
A pragmatic governance framework;
A target-state blueprint for enterprise reporting and analytics;
A prioritised roadmap for implementation.

Qualifications

We’re seeking a pragmatic enterprise data leader who is equally comfortable engaging with executives and technical teams.

You’ll bring experience in areas such as:

Enterprise data architecture and governance;
Analytics and reporting governance;
Executive and Board reporting environments;
Metric definition and stewardship;
Cross-functional stakeholder management;
Data quality and reporting controls.

Experience in SaaS, subscription businesses or distributed analytics environments would be highly advantageous.

Required Experience

10+ years of experience in enterprise data governance, architecture, analytics governance, or enterprise reporting controls.
Experience operating across Finance, Sales, Revenue Operations, HR, Engineering, Product, and Business Intelligence functions.
Strong understanding of data lineage, data quality controls, source-system reconciliation, data transformation processes, and reporting controls.
Experience supporting Executive, Board & Investor Reporting.
Experience defining governance frameworks, ownership models, and metric standards.
Demonstrated experience facilitating cross-functional agreement on enterprise metric definitions and ownership, particularly in environments where multiple functions have independently built reporting capabilities and no shared standard exists.
Experience designing operating models for enterprise data functions, including roles and responsibilities, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, governance forums, and resourcing requirements to sustain an ongoing data governance capability.
Familiarity with privacy considerations relating to the use of customer and employee data.
Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong documentation, process design, and executive communication skills.

Preferred Experience

Experience in SaaS, subscription, EdTech, or other data-intensive technology businesses.
Familiarity with sales, bookings, ARR, pipeline, retention, customer, usage, and financial reporting data.
Experience working with Salesforce and related GTM data structures.
Exposure to ERP, HRIS, and production data environments.
Experience supporting reporting used for Board materials, executive reviews, financial planning, or investor reporting.
Experience designing governance models in a distributed analytics environment where multiple functions have independently developed reporting capabilities.
Management consulting or specialist data advisory background, with experience leading multiple data governance or data strategy engagements across different client organisations.

Why join us

This is an opportunity to define how an established global SaaS organisation measures performance and makes decisions.

You won’t simply be building dashboards. You’ll help shape the principles, governance and architecture that underpin trusted enterprise insight across the business.

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