Data Governance Manager

Job Title: Data Governance Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Range: £40,000 to £50,000 + Corporate Benefits
Location: Esher – hybrid
Start Date: ASAP

Data Governance Manager required to join a highly successful and prominent Construction business to take full ownership of the data process design, ownership, and management. You will take ownership of data life cycle, including GDPR compliance, from the initial data source. You will help define and implement the organisation’s data and analytics strategy, design our Data Governance framework, processes and rules that underpin it, and work closely with other departments to analyse and collate the data from various sources.

What you will do:

• Work closely with business stakeholders/ data custodians to assess/understand their data and remediated data to ensure these are stored in the correct systems in accordance with compliancy standards.
• Identify and discover data risks, producing reports using Data Classification software, manage GDPR data compliance, as well as supporting compliance with regulations (eg GDPR, HIPAA, NIS).
• Work closely with Business and Functional area leadership to improve, create and develop Data Quality process and rules of core data assets, as well as support the strategic requirements of the department.
• Roll out an enterprise-wide Data Governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organization behavior policies and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools and data architecture.
• In conjunction with the IT, provide progress reports to Board management and oversee periodic updates to the Department Data Governance Roadmap
• Develop & maintain inventory of the enterprise information maps, including authoritative systems and owners
• Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements
• Lead Senior Management, comprising resources from the Business and Functional areas and IT business and operations functions, to achieve their objectives; resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas Data Governance representatives
• Oversight and reporting of risks caused because of ineffective data management throughout the Systems development life cycle (SDLC) lifecycle.
• Create and review Cyber and IT/IS security policies plus support data protection policies.
• Provide support and guidance in the application of methods and lifecycle management of information and data to support design, development, delivery, implementation, and exploitation of data.

What you will need:

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• At least 5 years of experience in data management, Data Governance, data architecture, or a similar role
• Proficient in data modelling, data analysis, data quality, data security, and data compliance
• Experience with data classification software, Data Governance tools, and data visualisation tools (such as Excel, SQL, Power BI, etc.)
• Knowledge of data regulations and standards (such as GDPR, HIPAA, NIS, etc.)