Head of Data Governance

This is a new role for D&G at senior Leadership level and reporting into the Global Data Strategy and Assets Director. Data governance foundations is about establishing a basic set of policies around data management and governance, setting out roles within the organisation responsible for those policies, developing standards that the policies are designed to help achieve, communicating those policies and standards and finally setting up an audit framework to ensure that they are being adhered to across the group. Responsibilities

• Establish a clear and robust data governance framework to define roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes for data management.
• Ensure that the Governance framework and policies are adhered to and understood, influencing the DGLG members to escalate and mitigate issues that are identified.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and security.
• Define clear data ownership and accountability roles to ensure that individuals and teams are responsible for the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the data they manage. Promote a culture of data ownership and fosters data stewardship.
• The data governance lead is responsible for all aspects of defining and operating the data governance framework and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
• Setting Data Management Policy across the D&G to establish data ownership and manage and mitigate data risk
• Delivering and managing technology solutions to support metadata management and data quality assurance for business-critical datasets
• Managing data acquisition and collection of ad-hoc data to support the D&G's objectives
• Managing and fulfilling business requests for new data through a centralised process, prioritisation forum
• Driving forward business system changes which support Data Management activities
• Provide leadership, support, sponsorship, and understanding of data governance to other departments.
• Create procedural documentation and associated training, for data governance framework and policies to create a consistent application of standards and processes to D&G for data quality, data management or data processing and data development standards are ad-hoc and specific to particular platforms.
• Set out clear Data retention and audit approach with CPO.
• Clearly define roles and responsibilities required for the effective delivery of the Data Governance Frameworks and standards.
• Manage the implementation of the Data Governance frameworks, controls and standards, embedding Data Management principles and services to govern data across the Enterprise
• Establish strong business relationships across all levels of the organisation to support compliance with the Data Governance Framework and associated metadata and data quality standards
• Manage the business relationship with the Data community and ensure metadata management and data quality requirements are met by the Enterprise Data Platform
• Be the subject matter expert on key programmes to ensure close alignment and integration between the data lake and the data catalogue
• Perform a critical role in educating and driving Data Owners and Data Stewards to collect and define business metadata to support data cataloguing and quality assurance
  
  At Domestic & General, we are proud of our 100-year legacy and excited about our future growth plans. We are expanding our horizons, entering new markets and territories internationally and we need your expertise to help us on the journey.
  
  We offer lots of great benefits! Some of which include:
• Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, as well as an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave
• Training opportunities as well as clearly defined career progression
• Health cash plan - employer funded cover to enable you to claim money back on essential healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy and many more. Cover also includes unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
• Attractive company pension scheme
• Life assurance - employer funded cover of 4x basic salary
• Dedicated online benefit portal offering access to saving and lending facilities, financial wellbeing and support services
• Salary Finance - access to savings and borrowing through payroll
• Car Leasing - access to a carbon neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme, with an all-inclusive monthly cost covering all charge, taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance on a range of brand new vehicles
• Travel Loans - interest free loans to help spread the cost of annual travel tickets
• Cycle to Work - tax efficient bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000
• Health & Wellbeing - discounted gym membership, online virtual workout sessions, online culinary classes
• OnHand - Giving you the opportunity to be an Eco & Social volunteer via a handy app. Volunteer individually or in groups to get involved in Youth Mentoring, Food Poverty, Homelessness & Elderly help
• Employee Assistance Programme - specialist advice and support on issues such as finance, relationships, illness and family issues
• Free Domestic & General protection plan - one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends
• Employee discounts - access to discounted Sky TV and broadband packages, together with a range of discounts for 100s of online and high street retailers