Senior Digital Asset Data Manager

Heathrow; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Heathrow is seeking a Senior Digital Asset Data Manager to ensure data underpinning critical infrastructure is accurate, accessible, and optimises decision‑making. You will work across design, delivery, engineering, operations and technology to deliver data solutions that support asset lifecycle planning and capital investment.

Join a collaborative team driving Heathrow’s journey to a fully digital airport, delivering efficiency, resilience and sustainability across activities while operating in

Qualifications

• Proven experience in asset data management within a complex infrastructure or engineering environment.
• Strong knowledge of data governance principles, standards, and best practices.
• Proficiency in asset management systems and related digital tools.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of Heathrow’s digital asset data strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain data governance standards to improve accuracy, consistency, and accessibility of asset information across the organisation.
• Collaborate with designers, delivery partners, engineering, operations, and technology teams to deliver integrated data solutions that enhance decision‑making and operational resilience.
• Oversee data quality improvement initiatives, including audits, cleansing, and validation processes, to ensure reliable asset information for critical projects.
• Provide subject matter expertise on asset data management tools and systems, driving innovation and best practice adoption.
• Report on data performance metrics and deliver insights that inform asset lifecycle planning and capital investment decisions.

Skills

Asset data management

Data governance

Data analytics

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional leadership

Data strategy

Tools

Asset management systems

Digital tools

Job description

Introduction

Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. Join Heathrow’s Development team and you’ll be part of this, making every journey better for millions each year, now and in the future. We’re the team that’s responsible for our multi-billion pound programmes to successfully transform Heathrow into an extraordinary airport, whilst delivering outstanding value for passengers and airlines. Development covers project management, process improvement, business change, master-planning, infrastructure and our ambitious capital investment programmes. This includes Heathrow Expansion, the UK’s biggest privately funded infrastructure project and flagship for delivering lasting economic growth. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious projects that make a lasting impact, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions. Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark.

Job Description

Join us at Heathrow and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our airport through world-class digital asset management. As a Senior Digital Asset Data Manager, you’ll ensure that the data underpinning our critical infrastructure is accurate, accessible, and drives smarter decisions. This role is central to Heathrow’s ambition to become a fully digital airport, enabling efficiency, resilience, and sustainability across our operations.

You’ll be part of a collaborative team that partners with design, delivery, engineering, operations, and technology functions to deliver data solutions that build our assets and keep Heathrow running safely and efficiently.

Your role will involve

• Lead the development and implementation of Heathrow’s digital asset data strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain data governance standards to improve accuracy, consistency, and accessibility of asset information across the organisation.
• Collaborate with designers, delivery partners, engineering, operations, and technology teams to deliver integrated data solutions that enhance decision‑making and operational resilience.
• Oversee data quality improvement initiatives, including audits, cleansing, and validation processes, to ensure reliable asset information for critical projects.
• Provide subject matter expertise on asset data management tools and systems, driving innovation and best practice adoption.
• Report on data performance metrics and deliver insights that inform asset lifecycle planning and capital investment decisions.

These Skills Are Essential

• Proven experience in asset data management within a complex infrastructure or engineering environment.
• Strong knowledge of data governance principles, standards, and best practices.
• Proficiency in asset management systems and related digital tools.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional initiatives and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Ideal Skills:

• Experience in the aviation, transport, or utilities sector.
• Familiarity with ISO 19650 standards and BIM processes.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies in digital asset management, such as IoT and predictive analytics.

About Us

There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we’ll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance‑based annual bonuses and our longer‑term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market‑leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow . Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.