Data Governance Lead

Synergetic
London, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Encodings Data Discovery Data Governance Data Infrastructure Data Stores Information Lifecycle Management Data Management

Job description

  • Implement Data Governance frameworks, standards and policies.
  • Embed data ownership, stewardship and accountability.
  • Drive Data Quality across data stores, products and lakehouse environments.
  • Embed metadata, cataloguing, definitions and lineage.
  • Ensure governance controls are built into data platforms, pipelines and architecture.
  • Assess governance maturity and drive improvement.
  • Promote governance adoption and data literacy across business and technical teams.

Requirements

  • Implementing Data Governance in large, complex organisations.
  • Strong understanding of modern data platforms, pipelines and lakehouse architectures.
  • Data Quality, metadata, lineage, cataloguing and data discovery.
  • Data ownership and stewardship frameworks.
  • Embedding governance controls across the data lifecycle.
  • Strong stakeholder management across business and technical teams.
  • Influencing senior stakeholders and driving organisational change.

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