Data Governance Technology Delivery Associate Director

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The Technology Enablement Delivery Manager is an Associate Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office (DSO). The role leads the business delivery of priority data governance technology projects from mobilisation through business acceptance, operational handover and measurable outcomes. It brings together DSO specialists, business stakeholders, Data Owners, Data Stewards, change teams, Technology and vendors to deliver tested capabilities and sustainable adoption.

The role combines project delivery discipline, practical data governance knowledge, technical fluency and product management practices: understanding business and user needs, supporting requirements and roadmap development, coordinating priorities and measuring value. It helps Service Lines and Service Line Quality translate governance needs into practical solutions. The role is accountable for integrated project delivery and coordination, working with accountable product, process, platform and control owners rather than assuming their decision rights.

• Convert funded governance priorities into executable delivery plans. Facilitate discovery with business users, Service Lines, Service Line Quality and data stakeholders to understand needs, current processes, constraints and intended outcomes.
• Confirm scope, accountabilities, delivery approach, resources and success measures. Work with business analysts, DSO specialists and product teams to translate needs into business, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories and measurable acceptance criteria. Maintain traceability from approved policy and risk requirements to delivery work, tests and implementation evidence, with validation by accountable requirements and control owners.
• Develop and maintain integrated plans, milestones, work streams, budgets, resource needs and critical dependencies. Support product teams in developing roadmaps and prioritised backlogs, aligning delivery sequencing to agreed business value, risk, capacity and dependencies.
• Establish project governance, decision pathways, reporting cadence and quality controls.
• Manage scope, schedule, quality, resources, budget, vendors, risks, issues, assumptions, changes and decisions within approved parameters. Facilitate priority and trade-off decisions, negotiate delivery commitments and elevate unresolved conflicts to the accountable decision-makers.
• Coordinate DSO specialists, Data Owners, Data Stewards, business analysts, change teams, Technology and vendors through design and delivery. Resolve dependencies across metadata and lineage, data quality, lifecycle controls, stewardship workflows, data products and AI‑ready data, including configuration, metadata modelling, rules, integrations and automation delivered by the relevant implementation teams.
• Coordinate business testing, defect resolution and acceptance against approved requirements, including evidence that governance workflows and automated controls operate as intended. Support release readiness and obtain required approvals from designated owners; coordinate data and process readiness, communications, training, adoption, operational handover and closure. Track business value, adoption and control effectiveness against agreed measures with benefits and control owners.
• Report delivery health transparently to sponsors and governance forums, with clear actions, decisions and escalation needs.
• Recommend recovery, phased delivery, revised baselines or pause where…