Senior Data Governance Lead — Hybrid Operations NA

Vantage Data Centers; Tendring; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vantage Data Centers is seeking a Senior Data Governance Manager, Operations NA, to enable North America Operations to use data confidently and consistently to manage performance, identify risk, prioritize action, and improve outcomes.

The role partners with operations leaders, data owners, stewards, and technology teams to define data definitions, ensure quality, and embed governance into business processes, with hands-on execution and cross-functional accountability.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Operations data-governance framework, roadmap, decision rights, and operating practices in alignment with enterprise standards.
• Operationalize data-owner and data-steward responsibilities across Operations functions, including clear expectations, governance forums, escalation paths, and accountability.
• Facilitate governance decisions and drive resolution of cross-functional data ownership, definition, quality, access, and usage issues.
• Partner with business and data teams to identify critical data elements and establish quality rules, validation criteria, thresholds, and controls.
• Monitor data-quality and trust indicators, identify root causes, and coordinate remediation with business owners, source-system owners, and data teams.
• Maintain visibility into governance risks, ownership gaps, unresolved data issues, and remediation progress.
• Establish and maintain Operations business definitions, metric definitions, ownership records, approved sources, and domain metadata.
• Promote consistent use of governed definitions across data products, semantic models, dashboards, analytics, operational reporting, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Coordinate documentation of data lineage and partner with Global Data & AI to align Operations practices with enterprise catalog, metadata, master-data, and reference-data standards.
• Leverage approved AI-enabled, automation, and workflow tools to accelerate data discovery, metadata enrichment, definition development, issue triage, impact analysis, and steward support.
• Partner with data engineering and platform teams to translate governance requirements into automated quality tests, controls, alerts, workflow triggers, and deployment checkpoints.
• Evaluate emerging data- and AI-governance capabilities and recommend practical applications that improve governance effectiveness, adoption, and scalability.
• Embed governance requirements and checkpoints into the
• The ideal candidate combines strong data-governance expertise with hands-on execution, business partnership, and the ability to drive cross-functional accountability and continuous improvement.

Job description

Vantage Data Centers is seeking a Senior Data Governance Manager, Operations NA, to enable North America Operations to use data confidently and consistently to manage performance, identify risk, prioritize action, and improve outcomes.

The role partners with operations leaders, data owners, stewards, and technology teams to define data definitions, ensure quality, and embed governance into business processes, with hands-on execution and cross-functional accountability.