Head of Data Governance & Quality

The Aa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Employer pension contribution

Employee discounts and wellbeing

Job summary

The AA is seeking a Head of Data Governance to lead the design, rollout and embedding of a robust governance operating model across the Group. You will own data domain ownership, stewardship, lineage, and quality rules while embedding controls into business change and operationalising data quality monitoring on a modern lakehouse platform.

You will partner with senior leaders across Data, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Cyber Security and the business domains to drive governance that enables

Qualifications

• Experience designing and rolling out a critical data governance operating model in a large/regulated organisation.
• Strong knowledge of data ownership, stewardship, lineage, quality, metadata and governance by design.
• Hands-on with enterprise data governance tooling, including Purview and alternatives.
• Understanding of risk controls, regulatory expectations and data/privacy considerations.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and translate complex concepts into business value.
• Proven leadership to build a high-performing data governance team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, rollout and embedding of a data governance operating model across the Group.
• Establish data domain ownership, stewardship, and data quality rules with clear SLAs.
• Embed governance controls into change programs to protect data and reporting.
• Own group-wide oversight of data and reporting risk, including KRIs and audit actions.
• Select, deliver and operationalise governance tooling across a lakehouse environment.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to translate governance into measurable business value.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Regulatory/compliance

Data quality

Risk management

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Soda

Great Expectations

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Job description

The AA is seeking a Head of Data Governance to lead the design, rollout and embedding of a robust governance operating model across the Group. You will own data domain ownership, stewardship, lineage, and quality rules while embedding controls into business change and operationalising data quality monitoring on a modern lakehouse platform.

You will partner with senior leaders across Data, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Cyber Security and the business domains to drive governance that enables