
Data Governance Analyst
- Surrey
- £60,000-70,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
What You'll Be Doing
- Champion best practices in data governance, data quality, and data stewardship across teams.
- Collaborate closely with data engineering, product, and compliance teams to establish and improve governance frameworks.
- Implement and maintain data quality monitoring, data profiling, and policy enforcement processes.
- Drive the use of Unity Catalog and similar tools for managing metadata and access control.
- Build scalable reporting and automation workflows using SQL, Python, and orchestration tools.
- Partner with stakeholders to improve data trust and culture across structured and unstructured datasets.
- Contribute to CI/CD practices for governance pipelines, using tools like Git, Jenkins, or similar.
- Explore the evolving AI and GenAI landscape, with a focus on data guardrails and filtering mechanisms.
- Proven experience in data governance, data quality, or data operations roles.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms - ideally Databricks, Snowflake, or Redshift on AWS.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation and automation.
- Familiarity with Unity Catalog, data cataloging, or lineage tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Purview).
- Understanding of structured and unstructured data management, profiling tools, and data quality metrics.
- Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and job orchestration.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally and champion data ownership.
- A natural curiosity for AI and evolving technologies in data privacy, ethics, and security.
- Work in a high-impact role that sits at the intersection of data, compliance, and emerging AI.
- Get exposure to an industry-leading GenAI stack with real-world production use cases.
- Remote-first environment with flexible working, competitive comp, and equity participation.
- A collaborative team culture focused on trust, innovation, and continuous learning.