Data Manager (Mortgages)

This high-profile role sits within the Mortgages business and is a fantastic opportunity to join a data passionate, customer-obsessed and product driven team! The team supports the largest mortgage book in Europe, whilst creating excellent home buying and home ownership experiences for our customers. As a Mortgages Data Manager, you'll be responsible for influencing and driving data management activity across the business. Given the strategic importance of this area, you'll have exposure from very early on to senior Directors across the Group, supporting their data vision and goals through implementing a robust data management practice in Mortgages. This role reports into the Mortgages Senior Data Lead and has significant collaboration with the central Data Office and Chief Data and Analytics Office, aligning the execution of data management practices to wider Group strategic outcomes. What will I be doing?

• Driving the embedding of data management into the Mortgages business to ensure we optimise data value and innovate safely
• Go-to person for all matters relating to data management, feeding into the team's overall data strategy and ensuring that senior customers views align to broader Group data objectives
• Ensure that colleagues in the division understand their responsibilities with respect to the Lloyds Banking Group Data Policy and support them with the actions they need to take
• Work collaboratively with Technical Engineers, Product Owners and Solution Architects to understand data flows and manage the efficient and effective production of high-quality analysis based on this research
• Champion for change, finding opportunities to enhance our existing data management capabilities or transform our current ways of working with data
• Responsible for appropriate oversight to certify that data management activity is effective and ensure that data risk is minimised so that data value outcomes can be achieved
• Responsibility for the assurance of high-quality data in the team, oversee maintenance of data quality dashboards and ensure that any data quality issues identified are recorded in a timely manner
Why Lloyds Banking Group From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.


• Passionate about data: Curious about how it is produced, consumed and managed across the organisation and used to deliver great business outcomes
• Can work well with ambiguity: A self-starter and confident to problem solve new / emerging data challenges for the organisation and Product Delivery teams.
• Thinks creatively about the value of data and good data management principles:
• Adapts well to change: Comfortable to flex approach in a rapidly evolving data landscape
• Teamwork and Collaboration: You'll have worked proactively and effectively with cross-divisional colleagues of all levels
• Communication and Engagement: Clear and effective communication of initiatives, standard methodologies and advisory services must be a core skill.
• Critical thinking and sophisticated problem solving: Demonstrate the ability to approach problems in a pragmatic way
• Analytical approach: Strong analytical ability to plan, gather and review information from a range of sources to formulate clear and workable recommendations
It would be great if you also had:
• Vast experience and knowledge across various data management fields and tools (particularly Collibra, Ataccama and metadata management)
• A solid understanding of data risks, controls and the risk management framework.
• Data Organisation awareness. Knowledge of technical, business and architecture data role types and responsibilities.
  
  Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.