Job Description As the Design Governance Manager, you will be the glue which, ensures that design practices across projects and products align with organizational standards, brand guidelines, regulatory requirements, and strategic objectives. You will be a guardian of design quality, consistency, and compliance, often bridging creative, technical, and business teams. Similar to a Project Management role, you will be working hand in hand with our PMO team to manage projects and ensure that each team is aligned, working within governance standards, risk is correctly managed and quality standards are maintained. This role is focused on data projects and in turn, you will be working very closely with our Data Teams. Typical duties include: Manage and run effective architecture and design governing groups - and their intended controls over changes across the organisation. Ensure that changes are robustly reviewed are aligned to our target operating model and target architecture. Own the architecture catalogue for the department - ensuring that the right teams and departments are 'thinking ahead' to plan for renewals, mandatory upgrades and exits in good time. Purpose of What you’ll be doing day to day : Manage and maintain the Architecture catalogue; which will inform emerging priorities of the Technology and Change teams Ensure the good governance of Design Groups - ensuring robust design interventions and controls across our Design Collective and Architecture Boards. Lead the governance of key Enterprise change delivery fora; Enterprise Interlock & Enterprise Design Authority Establish and lead the Design Collective - ensuring this effectively promotes disciplined designs that balance business, data and technical considerations Work with other key governance roles across PMO (Change) and the CIO function more broadly. Lead modernisation and improvement workstreams that seek to place good design practice squarely in the middle of our change delivery. Develop and deploy a monthly performance dashboard to help demonstrate the value and performance of Architecture & Design.