Global Data Governance Lead — Cloud & Storage Strategy

M&C Saatchi Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual holiday

Private healthcare

Employer contributory pension

Life assurance and income protection

Subsidised gym membership

Job summary

M+C Saatchi Group is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Governance Lead to define and execute a future-ready data governance strategy across the global business. You will lead data standards, ownership, and governance frameworks to enable trusted data for growth, collaboration, and regulatory needs such as ISO27001.

The role reports to the Global Head of Information Security and collaborates with Information Security, Infrastructure & Architecture, and business stakeholders to unify data

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in data management or related roles.
• Proven experience delivering data migration, consolidation, or large-scale data transformation initiatives.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud storage and data platforms.
• Experience implementing data retention, archiving, and lifecycle management strategies end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global data rationalisation and consolidation initiative, aligned to modern cloud-first principles.
• Design a target-state data storage and governance model that is scalable, secure, and future-proof.
• Provide extensive expertise in modern data platforms, storage technologies, and industry best practices.
• Lead enterprise-wide data discovery and analysis, identifying ROT data, duplication, and misuses of storage.

Skills

Data governance

Cloud platforms

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Data migrations

Education

CDMP Practitioner

Azure Data Fundamentals

AI Business Professional

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft 365

Egnyte

Google Workspace

AWS S3/Wasabi

SAN/NAS storage

Job description

M+C Saatchi Group is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Governance Lead to define and execute a future-ready data governance strategy across the global business. You will lead data standards, ownership, and governance frameworks to enable trusted data for growth, collaboration, and regulatory needs such as ISO27001.

The role reports to the Global Head of Information Security and collaborates with Information Security, Infrastructure & Architecture, and business stakeholders to unify data