Data Governance
- Develop and operationalise lightweight, practical data governance processes across priority domains.
- Maintain the firm’s data catalogue, metadata, classifications, and business glossary.
- Work with Data Engineering to align datasets with governance expectations such as naming conventions, lineage, and sensitivity classifications.
- Support the rollout and configuration of a Data Catalogue or equivalent.
- Establish and coordinate stewardship roles with business teams.
- Provide clear, accessible documentation to help colleagues understand and trust the firm’s data.
Data Quality
- Define and introduce data quality rules in collaboration with data owners and SMEs.
- Support issue identification, root-cause analysis, and remediation planning.
- Track and report data quality trends with visibility to senior stakeholders.
- Champion improvements in data capture, structure, and lifecycle.
Data Protection Officer Support (as required)
- Assist with DPIAs, including data discovery, mapping, flow clarification, and risk identification.
- Support DSAR processing by locating, extracting, and validating data, including creating greater cataloging and automation to reduce manual retrieval efforts.
- Support updates to ROPA entries to ensure accuracy of systems, purposes, and processors.
- Assist in incident or breach data scoping and preparation of evidence for DPO assessment.
Stakeholder Engagement and Culture Building
- Build strong working relationships across Business Services, Practice Groups, Information Security, Compliance and Legal.
- Translate governance concepts into simple, accessible guidance.
- Facilitate discussions to understand challenges, pain points, and process improvements.
- Deliver engaging, light-touch education and awareness sessions to support adoption of good data practices.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to streamline reporting and reduce data duplication.
- Continuously evolve governance practices as the firm’s data capabilities mature.
- Ensure governance supports platform and BI initiatives through close collaboration with the Data & Development team.