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# Data Governance Lead

- **Company:** Synergetic
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Encodings, Data Discovery, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Stores, Information Lifecycle Management, Data Management
- **Published:** August 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-E81497DBF0DB6ABF81/

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.


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