Description
Job title: Data Products Access Governance Manager
Location: Leeds, Bristol or Edinburgh
Salary: £65,385 - £72,650
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity:
We're looking for a dynamic, motivated, forward-thinking Data Products Access Governance Lead to join the team.
You’ll focus on the designing, implementation, and operationalization of user access management (UAM) across cloud-based data products.
Liaising with internal customers to understand their needs to ensure that data is protected in line with regulatory, contractual, and internal policy requirements, while enabling appropriate access for colleagues based on business need, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Access Governance Design: Develop and embed a scalable, policy-driven access management framework for cloud-hosted data products, aligned with enterprise IAM and data privacy standards.
2. Access Control Implementation: Define and enforce role-based and attribute-based access controls (RBAC/ABAC) across data platforms, ensuring least privilege and zero standing access principles are applied.
3. Lifecycle Management: Oversee provisioning, modification, and de-provisioning of user access in response to joiner, mover, and leaver events, integrating with enterprise identity systems (e.g. Saviynt).
4. Cloud Platform Integration: Collaborate with platform teams to embed access controls into GCP ensuring secure data product delivery and consumption.
5. Audit & Compliance: Conduct regular access reviews, recertifications, and audits to ensure compliance with internal policies, GDPR, and other regulatory requirements.
6. Partner Engagement: Partner with data product owners, platform leads, and security architects to ensure access requirements are understood, documented, and implemented effectively.
7. Training & Awareness: Develop and deliver training materials and guidance to promote awareness of access management responsibilities across the organisation.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose.
What you’ll need:
8. Proven experience in identity and access management (IAM), preferably in a cloud-first or hybrid environment.
9. Understanding of data protection principles, including GDPR, and their application in access governance.
10. Familiarity with IAM tools such as Saviynt, CyberArk, Azure AD, or similar.
11. Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure) and data product architectures.
12. Ability to translate complex security requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
13. Strong partner management and interpersonal skills.
About working for us:
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
14. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
15. An annual performance-related bonus.
16. Share schemes including free shares.
17. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
18. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
19. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.