Data Governance Manager, PharosAI - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Data Governance Manager, PharosAI - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS About us

About PharosAI

PharosAI offers a unique cancer AI product development ecosystem for drug discovery and clinical applications, democratising access to data, AI assets, technologies, and capabilities. PharosAI unites large-scale multimodal cancer datasets with AI models through a highly-secure, trusted, federated platform, offering state-of-the-art AI tooling for use by pharma/biotech/life-sciences, AI-pharma, and AI developers of clinical applications, in enterprises, growth companies, and research organisations.

PharosAI will also provide a “lend me an expert” concierge service, training and education in AI for clinicians, and an end-to-end product development and deployment service, helping cancer pathology services to be more easily deployed within the NHS.

This will be facilitated by a best-in-class patient involvement and governance model, and fair value sharing for data providers.

PharosAI will revolutionise AI-powered cancer care, driving breakthrough therapies, clinical applications, addressing cancer’s social determinants, lowering barriers to UK SMEs, catalysing innovation and positioning the UK as a global leader in this dynamic ecosystem.

About the role

Overview of the role

The Data Governance Manager role is a key new post in a recently developed and growing team implemented to enable and facilitate PharosAI. This post will play a critical role in laying the strategic and operational foundations of data governance and information security for PharosAI - ensuring that the policies, processes and practices relevant to its infrastructure and support activities will be managed in a legal, secure, and efficient manner.

The post will support data governance and information security activities with tasks such as providing guidance, designing and recommending training, and assisting with queries from internal and external stakeholders.

The Data Governance Manager will provide a critical interface between key players in the PharosAI matrix, ensuring alignment and good communications; they will also be outward-facing, engaging directly with collaborators and customers to understand their needs and to support compliance requirements (such as data flows, data protection impact assessments, etc.).

Key Responsibilities

• The primary responsibility for this role is ensuring that PharosAI platforms, services and data management are implemented and maintained to a high standard of Data Governance.
• Performing internal audits on the information security and data governance standards of PharosAI projects and/or infrastructure.
• Engaging and aligning with other teams across the PharosAI ecosystem (e.g. GSTT IG, Barts Health IG, PIVOT, GSTT Data Collaboration Assurance Group, Biobank Ethics Committee, etc.) to deliver target outcomes and build long-term relationships which will serve to continually improve the efficacy and effectiveness of the data governance program.
• Establishing a central register wherein to collate the portfolio of PharosAI projects and requisite metadata.
• Representing PharosAI in groups and meetings where data governance plays a significant role.
• Answering queries from researchers, research support teams, developers, and operations teams in relation to data governance.
• Ensuring timely annual completion of the NHS Digital Data Security and Protection Toolkit/Cyber Assessment Framework, ISO27001 Information Security Management System, and other frameworks - continually improving the risk profile of PharosAI – and linking these into partner frameworks.
• Developing and implementing appropriate and relevant policies, procedures, and training materials for PharosAI to support good practices in Data Governance which are aligned with local systems within the project.
• Engaging with the wider Data/Information Governance communities across peer universities, NHS Trusts, commercial entities, and other research performing organisations; as well as the MHRA, ICO and other relevant oversight bodies.
• Supporting external compliance requirements, such as from the MHRA and ICO, as appropriate, and liaising with partners as required.
• Advocating the importance and benefits of good information governance across the partners within PharosAI and across the wider R&D community.
• Developing and maintaining assurance records and artifacts for PharosAI activities.
• Assessing and managing risks related to data governance, putting in place mitigations to reduce or justify identified risks, and working with multi-disciplinary teams to prevent data breaches and other harms, and to respond to incidents as they arise.
• Assessing and communicating ethical considerations relating to, in particular but not limited to: data, its collection and use, and the mechanisms deployed to govern it.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered on a fixed term contract until 31st March 2027.