About this role
Role Overview
- Own and enforce data governance standards across the Bank — setting clear requirements for data ownership, documentation completeness, classification, and quality, and holding domain owners accountable to them
- Drive remediation of data-related audit findings and risk log items — take ownership of open actions, coordinate with business and technology stakeholders to resolve them, and track progress to closure
- Implement and maintain the data classification framework — ensuring all critical data is classified by sensitivity, value, and criticality, and that protection controls are applied consistently and correctly
- Build and operate governance metrics — establish a clear picture of data risk maturity across the organisation, including quality scores, ownership coverage, classification completeness, and audit trail integrity
- Embed data stewardship across business domains — work with data owners in Lending, Finance, Business Banking, and Personal Savings to ensure accountability for data quality is understood and acted on at the domain level
- Maintain the business glossary and data definitions — ensuring canonical definitions are agreed, documented, and kept current, so that data used in reporting and decision-making is consistent and understood
- Use tooling (including DataHub) to operationalise governance — configure and monitor automated governance checks, PII and sensitivity tagging, and lineage visibility to scale enforcement beyond manual review
Requirements
- Experience building & implementing data governance framework from the ground up in a regulated financial services environment
- Strong working knowledge of data classification, data quality management, and risk-based approaches to data governance
- Experience working with internal audit or second/third line functions to manage and remediate findings
- Ability to influence without authority — you will work across business units where you have accountability but not direct control
- Clear, confident communicator who can translate governance requirements into practical actions for non-technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with data governance tooling (catalogues, lineage, metadata management) — you will use tools to scale your work, not rely on manual processes
- Working knowledge of UK GDPR and the storage limitation principle, and how data protection obligations intersect with governance and classification frameworks
Benefits
- Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned.
- 25 days holiday
- Personalized benefits – opt-in to what matters to you
- Subsidised Private Medical Insurance with Bupa
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Wellbeing and social events
- In-house Barista Bar in London office
- Support causes that matter to you – Volunteering time off
- Salary sacrifice schemes (Cycle to work, nursery, gym, electric car scheme)