# Data Governance Manager

**Company**: Government Legal Department
**Location**: Bristol, South West, England; London Borough of Croydon, Greater London, London, England; Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England; City of Westminster, Greater London, England; Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 43,500 - 53,724 per year
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Government Legal Department is seeking a Data Governance Manager to play a key role in delivering its Data Strategy. The successful candidate will help establish and embed governance frameworks, standards, and controls to ensure accurate, consistent, secure, and trusted data.

The Data Governance Manager will work closely with the Lead Data Governance Manager, Data Architect, Data Engineers, and stakeholders across the business to strengthen data governance practices throughout the data lifecycle. This includes supporting data ownership and stewardship, improving data quality, enhancing metadata management, and promoting effective information management across the organisation.

The role involves:

- Helping shape and embed governance frameworks, standards, and controls for GLD's data

- Working with colleagues to strengthen data governance and promote good data management practices

- Supporting data owners and stewards to develop clear accountability for data

- Building and maintaining data catalogues, metadata, and governance documentation

- Driving improvements in data quality and managing data-related risks

- Enabling trusted reporting, analytics, and AI innovation through effective data governance

- Championing data literacy across GLD

The ideal candidate will have experience improving data management and governance, knowledge of data ownership and stewardship, and strong communication skills.

**Candidate Information Session** A candidate information session will be held on Microsoft Teams from 10:30am-11:30am on Friday, 30th October 2026.

## Skills

### Required
- data governance
- data management
- metadata management
- information management
- data quality
- data ownership
- stewardship
- accountability
- risk management
- compliance
- communication
- influence
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- data lineage
- taxonomy
- advanced metadata management
- Microsoft Purview
- reporting
- analytics
- business intelligence
- AI-enabled services
- government
- public sector

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