Data & AI Governance Senior Specialist

About us: At , data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make.

Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

About the team: The Data & AI Governance department enables extending the governance theme of policies, standards, processes and technology for governing data and AI to driving excellence in our approach to leveraging secure, trusted, accessible data for data driven decision making through:

• An overarching Data & AI Policy to include associated standards
• Data & AI Governance, including cataloging, classification, metadata, lineage
• Data & AI Access and Usage Control, in compliance with regulatory requirements
• Data & AI Delivery Governance
• Data & AI Observability and Quality

This enables the maturity of Data and AI capabilities across , unlocking data and AI applications as assets for delivering innovative growth opportunities and cost saving operational efficiencies.

Role

Description:

The Senior Data & AI Governance Specialist is an expert in Data & AI Governance. This role will contribute to the strategy execution and implementation of Data & AI Governance frameworks and drive best practice across a broad range of Data & AI capabilities across the company. In particular, this role requires a subject matter expert focused on the end-to-end data lifecycle including defining, implementing, and monitoring data retention, deletion, and legal hold across our data ecosystem.

This is a ‘bridge’ role where you will translate legal and regulatory requirements into governance standards, assist in creating technical Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and work alongside engineering teams to ensure our data estate remains compliant, and governed.

Key to success in this role is the ability to translate an expert level of Data & AI Governance knowledge into communication and storytelling for executive sponsors and key stakeholders while delivering and highlighting tangible benefits for the business.

This role demands skills as an evangelist and a partner, at a time where transformation and modernisation of our data ecosystem is an Org level priority.

• Contribute to the definition, review, update and roll-out of the Data & AI Governance framework and related standards and guidelines.
• Lead the end-to-end data lifecycle management process by collecting complex retention and deletion requirements from Legal/Privacy teams and translating them into actionable technical standards and PRDs.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to design and validate automated deletion workflows, ensuring Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) and statutory retention periods are baked into the data architecture.
• Partner with the Data & AI Governance Solution Architect in ensuring architecture designs and tooling solutions are embedding Data & AI Governance principles and needs, throughout the Data & AI lifecycle in all strategic Data & AI initiatives and programs.
• Define and implement the operational framework for Legal Holds, ensuring specific data sets are preserved and excluded from automated deletion cycles when required.
• Draft and maintain the global standard for Data Lifecycle Management (DLM), moving beyond ‘storage’ to focus on active data minimization and disposal.
• Define and track KPIs for lifecycle health (e.g., deletion success rates, volume of expired data, legal hold coverage) and build monitoring dashboards to ensure compliance.
• Act as the functional lead in validating that new tooling or in-house builds meet the governance Definition of Done for retention and deletion capabilities.
• Collaborate with Risk, Privacy, and Security to ensure alignment between Data Governance policies and the technical execution of DMA, DSA, and GDPR obligations.
• Lead proactive and reactive resolution of Data & AI Governance compliance risks, reporting key KPIs to relevant stakeholders,…