Data Governance Lead
Salary: National ranging from £57,600 to £70,000 and London from £63,300 to £75,000
The team/department
The Data Strategy & Services department supports the FCA’s Strategy by enhancing the quality and value of data through Data Management activities and providing central co-ordination of all data-related activities. The departments
key responsibilities include:
Setting Data Management Policy across the FCA to establish data ownership and manage and mitigate data risk
Delivering and managing technology solutions to support metadata management and data quality assurance for business-critical datasets
Managing data acquisition and collection of ad-hoc data to support the FCA’s objectives
Managing and fulfilling business requests for new data through a centralised process
Delivering insightful analysis using data, information, and intelligence
Driving forward business system changes which support Data Management activities
Within the department, the Data Governance Team is key to ensuring that the data that the FCA collects, captures, and acquires is owned, understood, and can be trusted.
What you will be doing (the role)
This role provides a great opportunity to develop and drive implementation of the Data Governance agenda, joining the central Data Governance team in offering critical Data Management and Data Quality services.
The key responsibilities of the role holder include:
Managing the implementation of the Data Management Policy, controls, frameworks, and standards, embedding Data Management principles and services to govern data across the FCA
Establishing strong business relationships across all levels of the organisation to support compliance with the Data Management Policy and associated metadata and data quality standards
Managing the business relationship with the Data & Analytics Product Group and ensure metadata management and data quality requirements are met by the Enterprise Data Platform (the Data Lake)
Be the subject matter expert on key programmes to ensure close alignment and integration between the data lake and the data catalogue
Performing a critical role in educating and driving Data Owners and Data Stewards to collect and define business metadata to support data cataloguing and quality assurance
Line management of resources to ensure delivery of the team’s goals
What you will get from the role
Play a pivotal role in the FCA Data Strategy and in delivering the Data Management agenda
Opportunity to work with and influence a wide range of internal stakeholders
Work with the leadership team that will drive the organisation towards becoming a more data-led organisation
Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.
Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:
25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
Private healthcare with Bupa
A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
Income protection
We support hybrid workingwhich means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.
The skills and experience you will have
Minimum
We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.
Proven experience of deploying Data Management and Data Quality practices and approaches using frameworks such as the EDM Council’s Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) and / or Data Management Associate (DAMA)
Experience of driving Data Management and / or Data Quality implementations within a complex organisation, including metadata management, data ownership, data lineage, data quality, and reference and master data management
Demonstrable evidence of Data Management and Data Quality tooling (either inhouse or commercially procured solutions) and their application within a large organisation
Essential
Developing and implementing data governance products such as data dictionaries, business glossary and data lineage diagrams
Ability to think strategically, contributing to both team-level and department-wide priorities
An analytical approach to work, able to spot trends and arrive at valid conclusions using strong judgment to reach sound conclusions
Ability to produce concise and persuasive written outputs and verbally convey any issues in a manner that is easy to understand to all levels of stakeholder and to converse e in both technical (IT/data systems) and business language
Embedding a data governance framework within an organisation
Gathering and documenting business requirements and use cases to support the development of data management services and tooling provision
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels and ability to deliver credible findings to achieve positive outcomes
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.
The FCA's Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our lead associate role.
Flexible working
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.
Multi-location
As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.
Useful information
Applications for this role close at 23:59 on 7th July 2024
This role is graded as Lead Associate - Regulatory
Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:
For internal applicants, please contact Michael Wood at k
For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis at k
What to expect from our interview process
The assessment process consists of an initial screening call with one our hiring managers. If successful, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview.
Application support
We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.
If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.
Security Clearance/Vetting
The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.
Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.
