Data Manager | S3 | Data Centre of Excellence

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Data Centre of Excellence team. As Data Manager you will oversee the entire lifecycle of data from acquisition and storage to analysis and dissemination ensuring that data assets are managed effectively, securely and in compliance with regulations and organisational policies. You'll have excellent communication skills, commercial awareness and an extensive analytical capability. If you're keen to promote the value of data and build a more data-driven organisation, this is the perfect opportunity to develop your career. The difference you'll make:

• Creating requirements for build of data assets that are in line with all applicable policies, procedures and regulations for data management, as well as meeting business objectives
• Ensuring data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability of data assets by identifying, mapping and analysing golden source data, ensuring suitable monitoring is in place to control data quality and implementing suitable change-controlled processes for updates
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand their data needs and provide relevant data solutions and building relationships with data owners to ensure they understand their responsibilities around ensuring the accuracy, completeness, consistency and security of our data
• Overseeing and supporting the successful on-time delivery of data assets, ensuring this is in line with the agreed architecture and that efforts are prioritised based on the value of identified use-cases
• Ensuring data assets are clearly documented and understood by the end user community. Communicating new functionality, downtime, data issues and facilitating user feedback to continue to grow adoption and usefulness of assets over time
• Defining the roadmap for data assets, working closely with business stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic priorities, you will manage and prioritise the backlog of developments including new functionality and bug fixes. Overseeing these changes through delivery
  
  Extensive Knowledge of Data Management and Governance regulations such as RDA, RRFF, GDPR
• Knowledge of the methodologies, tools and techniques for effective data governance and management and for identification of data management risks
• High degree of commercial awareness and stakeholder management skills. You will identify new opportunities to use data to solve business problems, and promote the capability to business stakeholders to gain their buy-in
• Project Management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of resources and budget to achieve project objectives
It would also be nice for you to have:
• Undergraduate Degree or equivalent in IT related field, or substantial work experience supported by professional certification /licences
• Knowledge of Information Architecture and Information Management (IM) methodology
• Experience in Financial / Budgetary responsibilities
  
  This permanent role is based in either Unity Place - Milton Keynes or Glasgow.
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles). If you apply for this role in these locations, it's important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location. We're happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process. If you're interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these. Inclusion At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair. How we'll reward you. As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• £6,000 car allowance per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander's success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.