Data Governance Specialist

Job Description

As a Data Governance Specialist, you will work within the Data & BI Team with responsibility for ensuring data-related changes across the organisation are designed, implemented, and governed effectively. This is a period of tech transformation for Together.

You will provide technical stewardship over core applications, databases, and metadata, ensuring data is well-defined, structured, and aligned with governance standards. You will enable data quality, literacy, and accountability across business and technology teams. This role is suitable for a data modeller or data architect moving into a broader, business-facing data governance function.

You will combine hands-on data modelling experience with strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, and you will participate in projects as the business moves to new systems and ways of working.

• Provide governance for data-related changes across the organisation, aligned with governance standards.
• Maintain data definitions, metadata, and data quality across core applications and databases.
• Act as a conduit between business and technical teams, translating requirements to data engineers and other stakeholders.
• Engage with projects to support transitions to new systems and ways of working.
• Apply data modelling experience to support data governance initiatives.

• Experience in data architecture and data modelling is highly advantageous.
• Strong experience in data stewardship, data governance, or data architecture roles.
• Proficient in relational database design, SQL, metadata management.
• Experience with data governance tools and techniques; familiarity with Unity Catalogue is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders; ability to translate technical concepts to business language.
• Knowledge of the DAMA Data Management body of knowledge and data quality concepts; data profiling and catalog management experience is desirable.

• Discretionary annual bonus (up to 20%) plus a Shared Reward Bonus
• Base salary ranges £45,000 – £60,000
• Based in Cheadle, South Manchester (5 days in the office)
• 26 days holiday, plus a birthday day off, increasing with service to 30 days, plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes and camper vans; buy & sell holidays
• Matched pension contribution; life assurance and critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access and local bar/restaurant discounts
• Health cash plan and private medical insurance

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by a £7 billion loan book.

We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process on request.