Sep 18, 2024
Data Governance Manager / Lead
3 months contract to start with (Inside IR35)
Location: Doncaster (1 DAY ONSITE EVERY WEEK)
Role Profile:
As a Data Governance Manager your main responsibilities will be to:
- Lead the formation, implementation and management of the client's data governance framework, policies, processes and standards.
- Develop measures to monitor client's data quality and governance, identifying gaps, and proposing solutions to improve ways of working with data.
- Implement and establish wider data management competencies within the organisation (such as data quality assurance, metadata management, master data management, data modelling, and development of data standards)
- Be responsible for understanding and managing the organisational data risks and issues, and co-ordinating with data owners to accept or resolve them.
- Collaborate with all of client's regions and functions to ensure data governance initiatives align with organisational goals, group operating framework and regulatory requirements.
- Establish and oversee the Data Governance Council and specific working groups to drive data governance initiatives across the organisation.
- Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company's data assets.
Essential requirements / experience:
- Experience of implementing and managing data governance frameworks, policies and standards.
- Ability to highlight the risks and issues relating to poor data quality and governance and articulate the business benefits in resolving these.
- Clear and effective communication and engagement skills with both technical teams and Senior Leadership.
- Ability to present analysis and visualisations in clear ways to communicate complex messages.
- Experience of implementing and monitoring data governance using standard methodology throughout the data life cycle, within a large organisation.
- Ability to understand and apply data governance structures and principles over a data life cycle, ensuring best practice at each phase.
- Ability to advocate data governance and data management standards and guidelines with specific reference to data products and services.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.