Data Governance Manager

Package Description
Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Hybrid)

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%.
• Annual leave 26 days, (based on your working pattern 1 of which is a corporation day) + bank holidays of course with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
• This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their BBC office and part of the week from home.

Job Purpose
The BBC aims to stimulate and delight audiences across the UK with distinctive, creative content. To support this aim, BBC is entering a new charter period of significant and exciting change, developing new capabilities in order to define a BBC fit for the next generation.
We are making the shift from being a broadcaster that speaks to our audiences to being a service that is shaped by them and designed around their wants and needs. To achieve this mission of being a Digital First BBC, we are building a data organisation which will lead cultural and organisational change. This includes transitioning the BBC to a data product organisation, evolving our data architecture and embedding data capabilities company wide. To help us progress along that journey, the recently created Data Governance function plays a crucial part. Data Governance function is under the Director of Data in Product Group. We are establishing the Data Governance team in order drive the implementation of our Data Governance strategy. This role will report to the Head of Data Governance, in Product Group.
Trusted data is a fundamental aspect of our data strategy. Our Data Governance strategy will be key to deliver on this.
As a Data Governance Manager, you will play a crucial role in structuring and governing our data to drive meaningful actions and insights. By establishing a robust Data Governance framework, you will empower teams to maximise the value derived from our data.
You will play a critical role at identifying, articulating, reporting and managing the risk associating to Data Governance at the BBC.
Are you the right candidate?
As a Data Governance Manager within a Federated Data Governance team, you will play a key role in developing and implementing effective data management and governance in support of a Data Mesh architecture. You will lead on the management of our data risk profile including oversight of Data Governance committee risk register. Specifically, you will be responsible for these activities:

• Setting up the fundamentals of Data Governance such as data roles, Data Governance maturity model, Data Governance steering committee and sub-groups, Data Governance embedded in change management etc
• Establishing and enforcing Data Governance standards and best practices across domains, promoting Data Governance awareness and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making.
• Defining the support model for compliance against the policies such as tools, training, processes and Governance.
• Identifying any Data governance gaps in policies and Governance structure and addressing data-related risks and challenges will be a key requirement.
• Setting up and maintaining a risk register for the Data Governance Committee
• Maintain a roadmap for regular data audits to ensure compliance, address potential issues, and enhance data quality.
• Promote Data Governance disciplines and culture internally, educating the business on analytics, reporting, data management, and data quality.
• The Data Governance Manager will be competent in understanding Risk and Compliance considerations, including Data Privacy and Security, to collaborate and opine accordingly.
• There will be an expectation to demonstrate proactive activity that results in value-adding progress and the adoption of best practice Data Governance

Requirements
Key Skills

• 5+ years of experience in a Data Governance role within a large organisation-preferably having been part of a digital transformation programme
• Proven experience implementing Data Governance practices and managing data integrity. Hands on experience in writing and rolling out common standards to enable shared data strategy and interoperability across data domains.
• Proven experience in understanding Risk and Compliance considerations, including Data Privacy and Security
• Understanding of various data domains, including data discovery, governance, master data management, metadata management, data quality, and data lineage.
• Excellent influencing skills and ability to build effective relationships across business, technical, and governance functions.
• Familiarity with data quality, data management, and Data Governance tools such as Collibra, DataHub or any other similar tools.
• Experience with implementing a data access control strategy for tools like Tableau, Redshift, sandbox etc

Highly Regarded Skills

• Experience with tools to help manage fine grained access controls such as Immuta, AWS Lake Formation
• Proficiency in complex dataset management and high-level programming languages such as SQL.
• Data visualisation tools (PowerBI, Tableau or similar)
• Experience of operational risk management in large and complex organisations

About the BBC
We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.