Data Governance Lead. Commodities Trading Firm. £105-110K + Discretionary Bonus and Benefits. Central London Hybrid.

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Data Governance Lead. Commodities Trading Firm. £105-110K + Discretionary Bonus and Benefits. Central London Hybrid.


My client is a top tier energy trading firm that is looking for a Data Governance Lead.


The Data Management team is part of the Data Team which works very closely with the Front Office and is the centre of master data management, data quality and control with direct responsibility over the development and maintenance of my clients Trading’s data assets.


The Data Management team is looking for a Data Governance Lead to manage a team of analysts and work with the product team for defining requirements for Data Governance products and processes (i.e. Data Quality tool, Data Catalogue, APIs, Access Controls and policy documents) as well as coordinating and overseeing the work done by the departments involved. The Data Governance Lead is expected to have leadership and project management skills, and extensive experience of working with data governance frameworks and tools within a cloud environment. They will assume responsibility for the planning and implementation of all data governance initiatives.


The suitable candidate will have experience with SQL databases along with data modelling, data scraping, ETL, scripting and data support as well as direct experience implementing data governance initiatives within cloud platforms e.g. DataBricks.


This is a hands-on role that additionally requires definition and documentation of data processes involved, guidelines, procedures and material for the customer. It requires understanding of data processes and analysis as well as willingness to learn about new technologies and big data tools.


Main responsibilities

  • Own the data governance roadmap and drive meaningful improvements in my clients ability to securely ingest, monitor, explore and govern their data.
  • Formulate requirements for the products developed by the Technology team based on customer needs (Data Catalogue, API Layer, Data Quality Tool, etc.)
  • Liaise with Data Consumers to understand their needs for data usage and access and translate these into technical requirements
  • Line manage a small team of governance analysts, prioritize workloads and own the delivery of all data governance initiatives in line with plan
  • Select use cases from the Data Consumers and validate the requirements
  • Perform system analyses and testing to determine appropriate functionality of the features developed and to ensure that suitable controls are in place
  • Coordinate and lead work to complete milestones agreed with the Data Platform team as well as the Data Operations and Data Stewards
  • Design, develop, test, implement and support innovative and optimal data solutions within both existing and new systems.
  • Participate in broader architectural discussions ensuring robust data governance principles are adhered to and suitable processes and tooling are in place
  • Design and specifications development for migration from legacy system to the new developed products
  • Ensure solutions are implemented correctly, properly documented and easily supported by the team.



Required Skills and Experience

  • Experience with requirements gathering (i.e. interaction with business users, technical developers), technical and functional specifications for products built in-house (i.e. data catalogue, data quality tool, data storing, retiring data, etc.)
  • Experience with testing methodologies for end-to-end development process of in-house built products.
  • Experience working with relational and non-relational database technologies
  • Leadership and Project Management skills required with the ability to shift between strategic planning and technical implementation
  • Exposure and understanding of big data technologies and messaging systems Hands on experience working with unified analytics platforms such as DataBricks, GCP, AWS and familiarity with the available data governance tools.
  • Good knowledge on SQL databases
  • Experience in data quality monitoring, ideally with event streams such as NiFi/Alteryx or similar
  • Good knowledge of data architecture and data modelling, as well as tools used to support these processes e.g. data catalogues, data quality tooling, data lineage monitorin
  • Experience working with JIRA, AzureDevops or other project management tools
  • Takes ownership of any issues that come up and facilitates their resolution quickly using own initiative while managing expectations.
  • A thirst for the latest technologies and automation coupled with a curiosity to research and innovate on new approaches
  • A flexible approach and a willingness to move between multiple tasks and take on more responsibilities
  • Interest in energy trading and willingness to work across the business on understanding the needs of different teams
  • Able to multitask, switch focus and prioritise own tasks being comfortable to work under pressure with demanding front office users


Desirable Skills and Experience

  • Data Catalogue tools and implementation
  • Alteryx/NiFi
  • Familiarity with data visualization tools e.g. PowerBI or Tableau
  • Data extraction and manipulation languages e.g. SQL, Python
  • Knowledge of statistical software and packages such as R, Matlab, Pandas, NumPy or SciPy
  • Experience with algorithmic trading systems and low-latency trading
  • Knowledge of financial markets is desirable but experience of working in other "big data" or HPC environments is equally valid.


If you are interested, please send a CV for immediate consideration.

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