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)