Data Governance Lead

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Today, Nest is at an early stage of scaling data governance to meet growing regulatory and strategic demands. This role will design and embed an enterprise data governance capability that enables trusted data, regulatory compliance and data-driven decision-making across Nest.

We're looking for an experienced leader who can inspire and develop a team of data professionals, influence stakeholders across the organisation, and drive change at pace and scale. The ideal candidate will be passionate about demonstrating how effective data governance unlocks value for Nest and its members, bringing people together and creating momentum to deliver meaningful outcomes.

The successful candidate will take the organisation from a relatively immature and fragmented data governance position to a structured, well-understood and actively adopted operating model with clear accountability, defined standards and measurable outcomes.

You will operate across two core data ecosystems, spanning Azure with Databricks and AWS with its native services, ensuring governance is consistent in principle while pragmatic in implementation.

A key aspect of the role will be engaging senior stakeholders across Technology, Data, Risk, Information Security and the wider business to drive adoption, embed accountability and create genuine cultural change in how data is managed and valued.

This is a rare opportunity to define and embed data governance at enterprise scale within one of the UK's largest pension schemes, with direct exposure to executive-level priorities around risk, regulation and digital transformation.

• 5 years of experience working in Data Governance roles
• Previous experience of working in Data Governance in a financial institution
• Demonstratable experience of improving the Data Governance maturity within an organisation

Proven experience leading and developing teams of data professionals

At Nest, you’ll have access to a range of learning opportunities to learn, grow and build the skills you need to be successful in your role and career.

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working(there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)

Nest is undergoing a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making, and Data, Analytics and Customer Insight is leading how we do it: putting our customers at the heart of our work and helping colleagues to understand and use our data. Our work enables Nest to continually learn, improve how we work and create value so that we can deliver a better retirement for millions.

The directorate includes:

• Business Intelligence – starting with the data at source, delivering actionable data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand
• Customer insight – putting our customers at the heart of Nest – understanding their needs through qual and quant research, surveys, and digital insight
• Data – planning and delivering how we manage quantity, quality, availability of key datasets as an enterprise, making it easy for BI, analysis and modelling operate and be automated
• Data strategy – working on Nest’s data literacy, data governance, and a strategy for how we can all collaborate to make our data a really useful shared asset for Nest, underpinning our decisions
• Analytics – taking all our data and creating value for the organisation – understanding our customers and our business, and doing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis and modelling to help Nest to make decisions

If you love data and insight, and you’d like to help us on this journey, come and join us.

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

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