Data Governance Lead

Job Title: Data Governance Lead
Location: Covent Garden, London / Milton Keynes
Type: Permanent - Hybrid working (2-3 days in office per month)

• Implement and embed the enterprise data governance framework, ensuring governance standards, policies, and processes are adopted consistently.
• Lead and support the data stewardship operating model, partnering with Data Owners and Stewards to establish clear accountability and governance practices.
• Drive the definition, maintenance, and adoption of business data definitions, taxonomies, standards, and critical data assets across key data domains.
• Manage and continuously improve data quality capabilities, including definition, monitoring, reporting, and remediation of data quality issues and metrics.
• Oversee metadata management, data cataloguing, lineage, and data classification activities to improve data transparency, discoverability and trust.
• Facilitate Data Governance Councils, Stewardship Forums, and governance committees, providing reporting, action tracking, and governance insights to senior stakeholders.
• Partner closely with business, technology, architecture, analytics, security, and compliance teams to embed governance controls into data platforms and business processes.
• Promote a culture of data ownership, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement, supporting initiatives that enhance data literacy, governance maturity and enterprise-wide trust in data.

• Define and maintain data governance standards for the data layer, including quality, metadata, lineage, access and usage.
• Own and prioritise the data governance backlog for AI/Data Layer, assessing risk, regulatory impact and enterprise dependencies.
• Ensure data models, structures and pipelines align with governance policies and approved business definitions.
• Monitor and improve data quality, completeness and consistency across domains and use cases.
• Partner with domain owners, data engineering and product teams to embed governance into delivery processes.
• Provide assurance on compliance with data protection, security and audit requirements.

• Proven experience within a Data Governance, Data Management or related data role.
• Practical experience with data stewardship, metadata management and data quality disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of data policy frameworks.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with confidence to present technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM or equivalent data management frameworks is a plus.
• AI/ML experience is required for one of the roles.

• Flexible working.
• 27 days annual leave plus public holidays, sick leave (paid).
• Health insurance, life insurance, pension plan with company contribution.
• Car allowance (dependent on role).
• Income protection, paid maternity, paternity, parental leave, adoption leave, compassionate leave and paid bereavement leave.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Wide range of flexible benefits to tailor to your lifestyle.
• Please note:
  
  BSI is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy.

Salary Range: £58,500 - £78,000 (based on experience, skills, market considerations and internal equity).

BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.