Senior Data Governance Lead: Strategy & Delivery

Nettitude Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

LRQA is seeking a Senior Data Governance professional to lead governance initiatives and partner with senior stakeholders across the business. You will coordinate forums, prepare board papers, and drive data quality, retention, and policy adoption using SQL and Power BI within the Azure Databricks environment.

You will work with domain leads and system owners to define master data and lineage, ensuring governance standards are implemented and sustained across a large organisation.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in data governance, data management or a closely related discipline in a large organisation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to frame data issues as business problems with clear options.
• Working knowledge of SQL and Power BI; familiarity with Databricks and the Azure stack.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of governance change initiatives end to end, building the evidenced case for change and driving through to adoption.
• Act as a day-to-day governance partner to senior stakeholders across commercial, operational and finance domains.
• Run Data Domain Forums, capture decisions, minutes, and circulate outputs to attendees and stakeholders.
• Prepare papers for the Data Governance Board and support cross-functional governance actions to closure.
• Define master data, lineage and catalogue requirements and ensure alignment with business needs.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

SQL

Power BI

Communication

Presentation

Problem solving

Tools

Azure Databricks

Power BI

SQL Server

Job description

LRQA is seeking a Senior Data Governance professional to lead governance initiatives and partner with senior stakeholders across the business. You will coordinate forums, prepare board papers, and drive data quality, retention, and policy adoption using SQL and Power BI within the Azure Databricks environment.

You will work with domain leads and system owners to define master data and lineage, ensuring governance standards are implemented and sustained across a large organisation.