Senior Data Governance Analyst - Collibra

Virgin Money UK; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Building Society is seeking a Senior Data Governance Analyst specialising in Collibra to join the Management Information team. You will monitor data quality, define governance artefacts, and collaborate with stakeholders to improve data integrity across Collections & Recoveries.

The role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to translate technical concepts into business insights while supporting hybrid working and UK-wide collaboration.

Qualifications

• Monitor and report on data quality for the Collections & Recoveries data domain.
• Support the governance framework, policies and controls across the department.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve data accuracy and consistency.

Responsibilities

• Identify data quality issues, investigate root causes and track outcomes.
• Maintain data governance artefacts like business terms, metadata and lineage.
• Partner with Data Steward to ensure regulatory compliance and effective decision making.

Skills

Collibra

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Tools

Collibra

Job description

We are looking to hire a Senior Data Governance Analyst - Collibra, to join our Management Information (MI) team at Nationwide Building Society. This is an exciting opportunity for a data-focused professional to play a key role in ensuring the quality, integrity and governance of data that is critical to the effective operation of our Collections & Recoveries function.

In this role, you will be responsible for monitoring, analysing and reporting on the quality of data owned by and essential to the running of Collections & Recoveries. Working closely with business stakeholders, you will identify data quality issues, investigate root causes and support the implementation of effective solutions to improve data accuracy, completeness and consistency across the department.

You will also support the department's compliance with Data Governance policies and controls by partnering with the Data Steward to create, define and maintain key data management artefacts, including business terms, metadata, data lineage and business rules. The successful candidate will play an important role in promoting strong data governance practices, ensuring that data is understood, managed and utilised effectively to support business decision-making, regulatory requirements and customer outcomes.

This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders across the business. You will be comfortable working with large and complex data sets, translating technical concepts into meaningful business insights and contributing to the continuous improvement of data quality and governance standards across Collections & Recoveries.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll be located at our nearest regional office or hub. There will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration and in some locations you'll be expected to spend at least two days a week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, in the office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.