Julia Magnus-George

Principal Data Governance Lead · UK

Julia Magnus-George

A decade working across higher education, technology and the public sector, making data something people can actually trust and use. Always happy to talk about it.

10+years in data
DAMAcertified professional
5professional certifications
3sectors worked in

Career

Where I've worked

The highlights — happy to talk through the rest.

2026 →Principal Data Governance Lead
Jisc
2024–26Senior Data Steward
UCAS
2023–24Student Data & Systems Technical Lead
University of the West of England
Earlier roles
Wiley Edge · King's College London · Warwick Business School

Work

Selected work

Metadata management

Built and managed the business glossary, data catalogue, data dictionary and lineage mapping.

Metadata · Governance

Salesforce data quality

Led a data cleansing exercise on Salesforce data to improve data quality.

Data quality · Data Governance

Student data ETL migration

Delivered an ETL migration for a 500,000-record student data system.

ETL · Migration

Inclusive Education Strategy

Led the data analysis and reporting behind a college-wide strategy review.

Analysis · Reporting

Data consultancy & published report

Coordinated a cross-functional project through to a public analytical report.

Stakeholders · Reporting

Expertise

What I work on

Business glossaries, data catalogues, lineage mapping, governance frameworks — embedded in how teams already work.

Dataedo · Databricks Unity Catalog · DAMA framework

Certifications

Credentials

Certified Data Management Professional DAMA International View credential →
Data Governance Fundamentals Databricks View credential →
Data Analytics Essentials Cisco View credential →
Product Analytics Certification Credly View credential →
AI Ethics DataCamp View credential →

Education

BA (Hons) Sociology with Psychology First Class Honours

Contact

Get in touch

If you're working on something similar — governance, metadata, data quality — or just want to say hello, I'd like to hear from you.