Principal Data Governance Lead, UK
A decade working in data across higher education, public and private sectors, making it something organisations can trust and use with confidence.
Data management across governance, quality, analysis and migration.
Setting the vision and direction for data, keeping it tied to organisational and commercial priorities, and improving data maturity across the organisation.
ExamplesLead a data management team of data stewards and data managers to achieve its goals and implement its strategic direction, maintaining day-to-day alignment.
Managed client portfolios in Technology and Finance generating £7.1 million in revenue.
Building governance frameworks, standards and data ownership across the organisation, aligned to the DAMA-DMBOK2 framework, and preparing well-described data for reliable AI and automation use.
ExampleEstablished an ownership model covering data stewardship, and implemented the approach for a business glossary, data catalogue and data dictionary.
Analytical work from raw data through to decisions people can act on.
ExampleOversee data quality and remediation across a directorate, including through migration to Databricks.
Complex migrations and system implementations, covering ETL, mapping rules, validation and cutover.
ExampleManaged the deployment of a student data system with over 500,000 records, leading data cleansing, mapping and validation for the migration.
Engaging stakeholders at all levels and explaining data to technical and non-technical audiences, including through a data literacy programme.
ExampleEngage internal teams, external customers and sector counterparts to define data requirements and champion open standards.
Data governance, data quality, metadata management, data integration & interoperability, data warehousing & business intelligence, data modelling & design, data architecture, reference & master data.
Education
BA (Hons) Sociology with Psychology First Class HonoursFor conversations about data management and governance, please get in touch.