Data Governance Specialist (12 Month FTC)

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays
Leeds
4 days ago
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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Data Governance Specialist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract) to join our central data team at Jet2.com and Jet2Holidays as we continue our journey towards becoming a fully data-driven organisation and embed a data-first culture across our business.

Please note, this is a fixed term contract (12 months) to cover Maternity leave.

As a Data Governance Specialist, you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits including:

  • Hybrid working (we’re in the office 1 or 2 days per week)
  • Colleague discounts on Jet2.com flights and Jet2holidays

At Jet2.com and Jet2holidays we’re working together to deliver an amazing journey, literally! We work together to really drive forward a ‘Customer First’ ethos, creating unforgettable package holidays and flights. We couldn’t do it without our wonderful people.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting to our Data Governance Manager, in this role your key responsibilities will be assisting in the rollout of an enterprise-wide data governance framework, with a key focus on one or more of the following areas:

  • You'll build on our established enterprise data catalogue solution, ensuring it continues to evolve as the central source for documenting data assets across the business. This includes owning and maintaining the relationships with Data Owners and Data Stewards in a number of data domains.
  • You'll drive the adoption and implementation of a data quality by design framework which includes people and processes associated with it across all areas of Jet2 and its data domains, as well as defining data standards and data quality rules with your specific data domains, data delivery teams and self-service analytics users to ensure standards are appropriate and embedded into delivery practices.
  • Working with stakeholders across data, security, legal and the business to develop and implement new and existing data practices around the use and management of data both at source and for analytical purposes, notably aligning and supporting our open data policy for all analytical data.
What You’ll Have
  • Experience working in data governance-related roles, which could include data cataloguing or data quality tooling.
  • Excellent communication skills are essential for this role as you will be expected to proactively engage with a wide variety of stakeholders from across our business covering both technical and non-technical roles across all levels of seniority up to and including Director.
Ideally, You Will Also Have
  • Familiarity with data analytics platforms and delivery would be a distinct advantage including experience working with data engineering, data analytics, data visualisation and data science teams using platforms such as Alation, Soda, Microsoft SQL Server, Google Cloud Platform, DBT, Snowflake Cloud Data Platform, Tableau and Dataiku (or similar).

Join us as we redefine travel experiences and create memories for millions of passengers. At Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, your potential has no limits. Apply today and let your career take flight!


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