Data Governance and Standards Lead

TL;DR

Data Governance and Standards Lead (Data Analytics): Architecting frameworks for data maturity, governance, and standards across operational analytics tools with an accent on cost efficiency, security, and AI readiness. Focus on defining data flows, metric governance, technical standards in GitHub/Dataform/GCP, and embedding a culture of data ownership through agile iterations.

Hub-based (Bristol, Glasgow or London) with flexibility to work from home. Unable to offer sponsorship.

£55,000 - £65,000

Company

Energy provider on a mission to solve the climate crisis through Plan Zero, focusing on operational performance insights and data-driven strategic transformation.

What you will do

• Drive data maturity by managing frameworks prioritizing cost efficiency, security controls, and AI readiness.
• Architect data flows for collection, storage, and sharing across analytical tools, ensuring policy compliance.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, remediation, and learning embedding.
• Champion Data Catalogue and Data Quality tooling adoption as subject matter expert.
• Establish metric governance framework with business owners, definitions, and technical logic.
• Define technical standards with experts for GitHub, Dataform, and GCP to ensure code quality.

Requirements

• 1-3 years in similar role with broad team working and cross-functional engagement experience.
• Ability to translate data governance into business value and win stakeholder buy-in.
• Customer-first mindset, proactive in hunting improvement opportunities for resilient, scalable solutions.
• Pragmatic governance skills for mentoring analysts and aligning enterprise datasets.
• Comfortable delivering processes agiler via MVP, feedback, and rapid iterations.

Culture & Benefits

• 34 days holiday including bank holidays.
• 15% on-target bonus tied to collective Plan Zero performance.
• 9% Flex Pay: 4% pension auto-enrolled, 5% flexible for benefits, pension, or cash.
• Healthcare cash plan/private medical insurance, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments.
• Gym membership, travel insurance, dental, extra holiday buying, discounts on energy/solar/EV.
• 8 Belonging Networks for inclusivity, ultra-low emission car leasing, cycle to work.