Data Governance Lead - Asset Management

Overview

As Data Governance Lead, you will own and evolve the firm’s governance framework to align with Data and AI strategies, regulatory obligations and target data architecture. You’ll lead governance forums, drive actions to completion and report maturity, risk and performance to senior stakeholders. You’ll manage data domains and critical data assets, ensuring clear ownership and consistent practices across the business. You’ll define and monitor data quality standards and support AI data readiness, shaping governance across the organization.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary to 150k
• Pension
• Private medical insurance including 24 hour GP access
• Enhanced parental leave policy
• 25 days annual leave
• Ongoing training and development and financial support for courses

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Data Governance Framework to align with strategy and regulatory obligations
• Lead data governance forums and report governance maturity, performance and risk to senior stakeholders
• Maintain the register of Data Domains and Critical Data Assets with clear sponsorship and ownership
• Collaborate with business teams to manage data quality, access controls, metadata and issue resolution
• Define, monitor and improve data quality standards, metrics, rules and remediation
• Develop and maintain governance policies and control frameworks with proportionate controls
• Partner with Architecture, Platform Engineering and Information Security to embed governance into platform design
• Support AI data readiness through data quality, completeness and lineage standards
• Build data literacy and a culture of ownership through training and hands-on guidance
• Support senior governance forums and produce management reporting

Key requirements

• Significant experience in data governance, management or risk within Asset Management
• Experience implementing data governance frameworks
• Strong understanding of investment, client, operational, regulatory and enterprise data
• Experience establishing data ownership, stewardship models, domain registers and critical data inventories
• Experience defining data quality standards and driving remediation
• Skills in developing data governance policies and control frameworks with stakeholder buy-in
• Hands-on experience with data governance tools (catalogues, glossaries, lineage, data quality platforms)
• Knowledge of data protection and financial services regulations relevant to global asset management
• Experience supporting senior governance forums and creating management reports
• Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills to hold senior stakeholders accountable

• communication
• facilitation
• influencing
• stakeholder management
• collaboration
• data governance tools with catalogues, glossaries, lineage and data quality platforms

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