Overview
A leading financial services organisation is hiring an experienced Data Governance Lead to support a critical, engineering-led initiative.
This role will focus on designing and delivering a risk-based data prioritisation methodology for engineering data and records, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and business priorities.
Working across engineering, data, and risk teams, you will play a key role in defining how critical data is identified, prioritised, and governed, and in developing a clear roadmap to achieve compliance and improve data governance maturity.
This is a hands-on delivery role, requiring someone who has successfully implemented similar frameworks in complex, regulated environments.

Details
Location – London
Hybrid – 3 days / week in the office
Duration – Initial 6 months
Rate - £750 -£900 / day Inside IR35 via Umbrella

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a risk-based data prioritisation methodology, including scoring criteria aligned to business value, risk, and regulatory exposure.
• Adapt existing enterprise data governance policies to the engineering environment
• Engage with senior stakeholders across engineering, data, and risk to drive alignment and secure buy-in
• Apply the methodology to identify and prioritise critical engineering datasets and records
• Develop a pragmatic roadmap and implementation plan to achieve data conformance
• Support identification of data and record ownership where required
• Ensure outputs are practical, scalable, and embedded into engineering workflows

Experience Required

• Proven experience in data governance, data management, or data strategy delivery roles
• Demonstrable experience building and applying data prioritisation frameworks, methodologies, or operating models
• Experience working closely with engineering or technology teams
• Strong understanding of risk, regulatory, and compliance-driven data environments
• Background in financial services or another highly regulated industry
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders
• Track record of delivering practical, implementable outcomes, not just high-level strategy

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