Full time, Permanent
Join Our Team as a Data Governance Lead.
Are you passionate about data governance and ready to make a significant impact?
We’re seeking a proactive and experienced Data Governance Lead to shape and deliver our data governance strategy, ensuring our data is trusted, secure, and used effectively across the organisation. This is a new, high-impact role that will work cross-functionally to establish robust frameworks, policies, and processes that underpin data quality, compliance, and value creation.
About Morgan Sindall Morgan Sindall Construction is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. Together, we create great results for our customers, partners, and people. We are one of the UK’s most successful Tier 1 contractors. As a progressive and ambitious company, our employees benefit from a safe and rewarding working environment.
About the role
The Governance lead will devise and implement data governance and master data management processes and derive data management structures and metadata to support consistent data retrieval, integration, analysis, pattern recognition, and interpretation across the organisation.
You will independently validate external information from multiple sources and plan effective data storage, sharing, and publishing practices within the organisation. Identifying and addressing issues preventing optimal use of information assets, you will provide expert advice to maximise data asset value, ensuring data quality and compliance.
The Governance Lead will explore new approaches for data visualisation and establish the purpose and parameters of data visualisation, overseeing the use of data visualisation tools and techniques.
Why You Should Apply:
* Lead the Way: Take charge of designing, implementing, and continuously improving our data governance framework, aligned to business priorities and regulatory requirements.
* Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with IT, data, risk, legal, and operational teams to embed governance into data lifecycle management.
* Drive Excellence: Champion data quality initiatives and support the resolution of data issues through root cause analysis and prevention.
* Champion a Data-Driven Culture: Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and increase data literacy by educating and engaging stakeholders.
* Shape the Role: This is a new role, giving you the opportunity to shape and define it according to your vision and expertise.
What We’re Looking For:
* Proven experience in a data governance, data management, or data strategy leadership role.
* Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM) and data quality principles.
* Experience implementing governance tools or platforms (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation) is a plus.
* Solid understanding of data protection laws and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR).
* Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
* Strategic mindset with a practical, delivery-focused approach.
With a strong understanding of governance frameworks, you will have the ability to identify, assess, and mitigate governance-related risks. We are looking for a candidate with experience in both IT and Business roles, working across departments to understand diverse business needs and how IT can address them.
We are Morgan Sindall Construction Central Management.
Our people are encouraged and rewarded to work as a team to achieve our Perfect Delivery philosophy. The success of this strategy to find – win – deliver – repeat has yielded a healthy forward order book, enabling us to focus on strengthening our long-term work-winning capability in sectors such as education, public sector frameworks, civic buildings, leisure, investment-linked opportunities, and healthcare.
Our commitment to our people is as strong as to our clients. At Morgan Sindall Construction, we recognize that our employees play a vital role in helping us achieve our goals. The company develops and promotes employees who share their dedication. Our strength is our people, whose skills, knowledge, and integrity keep us at the industry forefront.
If you are interested in furthering your career in an inclusive and supportive environment, apply to us today.
Equality Statement
Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each role, based on merit alone and free from bias. We are committed to fair treatment of all applicants, regardless of background, disability, or protected characteristics.
We recruit individuals embodying our core values of professionalism, expertise, and trust, which has fostered a diverse workforce.
We are committed to supporting Veteran and Service Leaver applicants for all roles. We celebrate our diverse teams, making Morgan Sindall Construction an inclusive, collaborative, and rewarding place to work. Join us to make a real impact on our business.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
Our goal is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels they belong and can contribute. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Morgan Sindall Construction is an equal opportunities employer, accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ and an Investors in People company.
We require all applicants to have the legal right to work in the UK and will request proof during recruitment. Our process is accessible; please contact us if you need assistance or accommodations.
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