Data Management Hub Lead – Governance & Cloud

Senior Manager, Data Management in DATA MANAGEMENT HUB

Leeds, United Kingdom

This is an exciting role at the heart of the Data & Analytics Transformation (DAT) Directorate, heading up the Data Management Hub within the Data Strategy Implementation Division (DSID).

DAT is leading the transformation of the Bank’s use of data and analytics in light of the revolutionary opportunities brought about by technological progress. The directorate is responsible for the delivery of the Bank’s Data & Analytics (D&A) Strategy, including moving the Bank’s data and running its analytical processes on the cloud, strengthening how we acquire and share data externally, rolling out artificial intelligence tools, and delivering a data and AI literacy agenda for all roles.

Ensuring that we manage the Bank’s data assets effectively is vital to ensuring this work progresses effectively.

DSID sits at the heart of DAT, responsible for providing a wide range of data and analytical products and services and taking the lead on ensuring the Bank’s use of data is well-governed. Almost everything the Bank does depends on the effective use of data and analytics. In large part this is defined and delivered by DSID. It directly enables colleagues to use data at all points of the data cycle, by providing many of the central D&A tools, platforms, services, training and specialist support.

DSID is home to many different skillsets, including data scientists, data governance experts, communications professionals, skills and training leads, and delivery managers. The importance of the role, the range of roles and the diverse background of DSID’s staff make it an exceptionally stimulating and exciting place to work.

You will lead the Bank’s enterprise hub for data management: the Data Management Hub (DMH). The team manages three key capabilities and lead three services in the Bank. Data governance and the development, execution and governance of policies and practices to deliver, control, protect and enhance the value of the Bank’s data delivered as the Data Management and Policy Advice Service.

Metadata management and the ‘Find and Describe Service’ that supports the Bank to catalogue its data assets and colleagues to find and access them. The Master and Reference Data Service that supplies a trusted set of mission critical data to operational and analytical use cases around the Bank.

As Senior Manager of the Data Management Hub in the Bank of England, you will be responsible for maximising the value of the Bank’s core services that enable data management in the Bank: the Master and Reference data service, the Find and Describe service and the Data Management Policy and Advice service. You will be responsible for the smooth running the provision of these services as well as working with our transformation team in ensuring that data management is enhanced by the move to a cloud-based platform.

You will do this by setting a clear strategy for the Bank’s Enterprise Data Management and Data Governance services, communicating clearly the priority outcomes you want the services to achieve, and ensuring the people involved in the delivery of the services have clear roles and responsibilities.

You will manage services with a cross functional team that span Product Management, Operations, Product Analysis, Tech and Design. Effective cross-boundary working is essential to the success of this work. You will need to work with other teams and their managers to deliver results. Strong stakeholder management skills are therefore crucial to its success, as is understanding how to make data management feel enabling rather than constricting to the team’s wide set of stakeholders.

This is a people management role, and you will manage around four direct reports and the teams they lead. You will need to ensure that all team members are productive, engaged and motivated to deliver clearly defined project aims. Effective staff development is essential as is establishing an inclusive, nurturing environment.

You will also be part of the division’s leadership team and the directorate’s senior management…