EU Data Governance Analyst: Data Quality & Compliance

Vanguard Group, Inc.; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Group, Inc. is seeking a European Data Governance Analyst to operationalise governance across European functions.

You will build dashboards, map CDEs, and support data lineage, controls, and metadata management in a regulated environment. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, experience with governance tooling, and the ability to translate complex data concepts for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst or similar role, including process and requirements documentation.
• Experience producing dashboards, reporting and management information.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a regulated environment.
• Preferred: experience in a large regulated organisation; Data Governance, Data Quality, Privacy, Risk, Compliance or Operational Resilience; GDPR, retention, lineage or metadata; and Collibra, Purview or similar tooling.

Responsibilities

• Work under the strategic direction of the Head of EU Data Governance and be responsible for implementing governance requirements within your assigned business area.
• Produce data quality dashboards, scorecards and management information; source, validate and map Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Support data lineage, mapping, process validation, control testing, metadata reviews and data quality assessments.
• Investigate data quality issues, identify root causes and support sustainable remediation.
• Document end-to-end data processes, flows, controls, operating procedures and governance artefacts to support auditability.
• Work with Data Governance Partners to design, document and embed proportionate controls that mitigate European Data Governance Key Risk Drivers.
• Maintain business glossary, data dictionary, CDE, ownership and metadata records in Collibra and related repositories.
• Maintain roadmaps, plans, RAID logs and status reporting across multiple workstreams; facilitate workshops and translate complex concepts into clear business language.
• Identify opportunities to simplify or automate monitoring, governance processes and reporting.

Skills

Communication

Data/Business Analysis

Dashboards & Reporting

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SQL

Python

Collibra

Power BI

Advanced Excel

Purview

Tableau

Job description

Vanguard Group, Inc. is seeking a European Data Governance Analyst to operationalise governance across European functions.

You will build dashboards, map CDEs, and support data lineage, controls, and metadata management in a regulated environment. The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, experience with governance tooling, and the ability to translate complex data concepts for stakeholders.