Data Governance Change Lead

Job Title: Data Governance Change Lead
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Salary Range: Competitive
Location: Eastleigh, Hybrid working with travel to Ageas offices when required.
Closing Date for applications: Friday 3rd July

Data Governance Change Lead: At Ageas, we are undergoing significant transformation, and we are looking for a Data Governance Change Lead to ensure our data remains structured, governed and reusable throughout this journey. This role is critical in embedding strong data governance across migration and change initiatives, preventing fragmentation and enabling trusted, high-quality data across the enterprise.

Working across business, technology and Ageas Group stakeholders, you will ensure governance is built into change from the outset—supporting secure access, strong lineage, and scalable data foundations for analytics and AI. Operating in a complex, fast-paced environment, you will influence delivery, challenge scope, and ensure data governance drives measurable business value.

This is a high-impact role offering the opportunity to shape how data is governed through transformation, ensuring lasting value across the organisation.

Main Responsibilities as Data Governance Change Lead:

• Lead governance across complex and large-scale data migration programmes.
• Embed data governance into change lifecycle and delivery work streams.
• Define and enforce MDM/RDM standards and controls into migration activity.
• Ensure data is catalogued, classified and traceable.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and 3rd parties to deliver practical and quality-focussed outcomes that enable effective delivery without overburdening processes with governance protocols.

Skills and experience you need as Data Governance Change Lead:

• Data Governance Leadership: Proven experience in playing a leadership role within large-scale data migrations and transformation programmes. Strong experience in coaching and developing junior data management resource is essential.
• Technical Expertise: Expert in Data Management best practice. You will hold a DAMA qualification and possess adeep understanding of the value and purpose of metadata management, data governance standards and procedures, data lineage, data ownership, and data quality best practice. You will also have expert experience in the application of these disciplines and how to monitor against them.
• Stakeholder Influence: Able to challenge, guide and influence project stakeholders across complex delivery teams and working environments.
• Resilience & Delivery: Thrives under pressure, managing competing priorities successfully and applying pragmatism in your approach to enable delivery without compromising the quality of the outcome.
• Innovation: You will maintain a keen understanding of data and AI technological advancements and be passionate about developing new and automated data and AI governance processes and techniques for AI enabled analytics.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve,Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health-Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth-50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work-Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family-Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK.Our Peoplehelp Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of theRace at Work Charter andWomen in Finance Charter, member ofiCAN andGAIN. As aDisability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access tosupport and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see