Data Governance Analyst

Data Governance Analyst

Salary: £65,000 - £70,000

Location: London, Hybrid

Overview

We’re looking for a Data Governance Analyst to drive better control, consistency and quality across our global data landscape. This is a mid–senior role with clear progression to Senior, including mentoring responsibilities for a junior analyst, focused on data quality rules and concepts.

You’ll sit between the business, compliance and data teams, helping to define and enforce data standards, taxonomies and policies that support GDPR, PI data controls and better decision‑making across the organisation.

What you’ll do

• Own and evolve data governance frameworks, policies and standards across key domains (including GDPR, PI data and metadata management).
• Work closely with Compliance and Legal to ensure data handling, retention and access align with regulatory and internal policies.
• Mentor and guide a junior data quality analyst on data quality concepts, rules and best practice, including reviewing their work and providing feedback.
• Lead standardisation initiatives for global data (naming conventions, taxonomies, reference data) so teams use consistent terms and structures.
• Engage with business stakeholders across multiple teams to understand how they use data, agree standards and drive adoption of governance processes.
• Challenge and push back where needed when proposed approaches don’t align with agreed governance, quality or compliance standards.
• Support data quality monitoring and reporting, helping to define rules and checks and reviewing outputs.
• Work with data teams to ensure governed data definitions are reflected in systems, reports and documentation.

What we’re looking for

• Solid experience in data governance, data management or data quality in a complex or global organisation.
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts: data ownership and stewardship, data dictionaries, metadata, data quality rules and controls.
• Good knowledge of GDPR and personal data concepts, and how these translate into practical standards for data capture, storage and usage.
• Confident stakeholder engagement skills: able to talk to the business in plain language, influence decisions and push back constructively when needed.
• Experience mentoring or supporting more junior colleagues, even informally (e.g. reviewing work, coaching on best practice).
• Comfortable with basic SQL (e.g. select queries) and working with spreadsheets to inspect, profile and validate data.
• Strong documentation skills, able to write clear standards, guidelines and how‑to material for non‑technical users.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing or contributing to data catalogues, business glossaries or similar tooling.
• Exposure to data platforms (e.g. data warehouses, BI tools) and how governance is applied in those environments.
• Experience in a regulated industry (e.g. financial services, healthcare, insurance, etc.).