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# Data Governance Lead

- **Company:** Hewett Recruitment
- **Location:** Worcestershire, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Database, Encodings, Data Governance, Data Migration, Metadata, Enterprise Data Management, Data Management, Databricks
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hewett-recruitment.co.uk/job/data-governance-lead-6011787/apply

## About the Role

* Proven experience delivering data governance or enterprise data management initiatives
 * Strong understanding of data ownership, stewardship and data quality
 * Experience working with metadata, lineage and business glossaries
 * Knowledge of an established data management framework, such as DAMA-DMBOK
 * Experience working with senior business and technical stakeholders
 * An understanding of privacy, security and regulatory considerations
 * Familiarity with modern cloud data platforms and data cataloguing tools
 * The ability to turn governance principles into practical processes and controls

Experience supporting a major data migration or cloud data transformation would be beneficial. Exposure to Azure, Databricks or similar technologies would also be useful, but broader governance experience remains important.

## Description

* Develop and maintain the organisation's data governance framework, policies and standards
 * Establish clear data ownership and stewardship responsibilities
 * Introduce practical data quality controls, measures and remediation processes
 * Improve the management of metadata, data definitions, business glossaries and lineage
 * Work with technology and data teams to build governance into new platforms and processes
 * Support major data migration and transformation activity
 * Work alongside privacy, security and compliance stakeholders
 * Engage senior stakeholders and encourage adoption across the wider business


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