Lead Data Governance Manager

at  Crown Commercial Service

TEAM SUMMARY

This role integrates into the Data, Insights and Delivery senior leadership team (SLT) and works in collaboration with the Data Engineering Quality lead. Together the team provides cross functional leadership in undertaking analysis, making decisions and driving actions that improve the use and management and value of data in CCS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Communicating analysis and insight

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £57,954, Crown Commercial Service contributes £16,789 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define the data governance strategy for the organisation, and join it with the wider organisational strategy. Ensuring that best practice data policies, processes and standards are understood at senior levels throughout the organisation’s programmes and projects
• Design, implement and monitor data governance within the organisation, and throughout the data life cycle
• Define strategies to enable continual improvement of data management practices and compliance with data governance policies
• Engage and work effectively with technical leaders and senior stakeholders to implement data governance and ensure compliance, in particular assisting, coaching and developing the Data Quality and Lineage lead for CCS to deliver change
• Set and monitor the adherence to data governance policies, frameworks and standards required in Government
• Be accountable for understanding and handling the organisational data risks and issues, and co-ordinating with data owners to accept or resolve them
• Act as an advisor across Crown Commercial Services and lead on the best practice of data security development, in accordance with the data enterprise architecture whilst consulting with the CCS central assurance and information security team.
• Maintain effective long-term relationships at a senior level with important decision-makers and influencers
• Investigate emerging trends in data-related approaches, perform horizon-scanning for the organisation and introduce innovative ways of working