Group Wide Data Governance Director - London Stock Exchange : Job Details

Reporting into the Head of Enterprise Information Governance, the Data Governance Lead is responsible for leading the continuous improvement and roll-out of an enterprise-wide data governance framework comprising Policy, standards, guidance, controls and Group tooling. Our mission is to ensure that data is of high quality, compliant, trusted and aligned to business outcomes. This role will be responsible and accountable for:

• Driving alignment between tooling, policy framework and business strategies to enable Policy conformance in a consistent and efficient way, and to maximise business value.
• Building strategic, collaborative partnerships with stakeholders including with Technology, to drive and input to Group and divisional data governance strategies.

Data Policy Framework and Conformance :

• Define strategy for Policy framework evolution, to reflect the organisation's maturity, risk appetite and other environmental factors.
• Lead the continuous enhancement and maintenance of the Policy framework in collaboration with divisional stakeholders to reach consensus.
• Design and implement approaches to meet the requirements of the Policy Governance Framework
• Is accountable for provision of guidance to support the Policy and bring about standardised and consistent approaches to implementation.
• Help drive and input to operational resilience strategy pertaining to data as a dimension, aligning with broader data policy strategy.
• Oversee enterprise data-related projects to remain aligned on priorities, collaborating with Sponsors, ensuring delivery of required project artefacts.
• Produce an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap and conformance reporting.
• Responsible for reporting of data related risks/issues, in collaboration with Data Risk, and escalation of significant issues.
• Responsible for delivery of Divisional Strategic Objectives.

Product Management :

• Own tooling strategy and vision of centrally provided tools. Partner with Technology and syndicate product roadmap with divisional stakeholders
• Be an advocate for implementation consistency while meeting strategic divisional requirements and other business drivers.
• Identify capability gaps to improve user experience and increase adoption. Translate into vision and high-level requirements.
• Deliver and support tooling capabilities to meet the product roadmap, including managing funding, overseeing the backlog and priorities, requirements analysis and business sponsorship.
• Promote adoption of capabilities to continually build business value.
• Lead and develop the licensing strategy and associated vendor negotiations.

General

• Manages staff at various levels globally both directly and matrixed, including responsibilities to on-board, train, educate, mentor, and off-board, as necessary.
• Inputs to industry forums and champions industry best practices within LSEG for Data Governance, Management, Quality, and Metadata and incorporates relevant ideas into deliverables.

Essential Skills:

• Significant Data Governance and frameworks experience
• Product Owner experience - required for data governance tooling
• Strong people and stakeholder management being able to influence
• Worked in agile methodologies

Desired Skills:

• Experience with P urview, Solidatus and Collibra
• Experience working in a global organization

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