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Senior Data Governance Consultant
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This role is for a Senior Data Governance Consultant on a 9-12 month hybrid contract (3 days in-office) across various UK locations. Key skills include data governance experience in Central Government, data lifecycle understanding, and stakeholder engagement.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
July 8, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Fixed Term
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Greater Lincoln Area, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Conceptual Data Model #Strategy #Data Governance #Data Strategy #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Data Lifecycle #Data Management
Role description
Role: Senior Data Governance Consultant
Duration: 9-12 month fixed term contract
Locations: Either Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle, Blackpool, Manchester
Hybrid role (3 days in the office)
The successful candidate will support the delivery of the Data Ownership Model (DOM) as an enabler of our Data Strategy 2030 ambitions. The work spans design through to delivery, embedding Data Ownership enterprise-wide across business areas, policy and digital and transformation programmes.
Key activities include:
- Support identification and onboarding of Data ownership roles
- Delivering conceptual data model workshops
- Applying data ownership across the data lifecycle and decision making
- Supporting the Data governance knowledge hub as the central access point for governance guidance.
- Enabling engagement between central data management capabilities (hub) and business areas (spokes)
The role will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting delivery and continuous improvement of Data Ownership.
Experience delivering data governance or data ownership/stewardship models.
- Strong understanding of data lifecycle
- Strategic and operational delivery capability
- Experience translating policy into practical delivery
- Experience working across multiple workstreams in complex environments. - Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to support delivery of change and adoption.
Essential: Working extensively within Data Governance in a Central Government Department
Role: Senior Data Governance Consultant
Duration: 9-12 month fixed term contract
Locations: Either Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Newcastle, Blackpool, Manchester
Hybrid role (3 days in the office)
The successful candidate will support the delivery of the Data Ownership Model (DOM) as an enabler of our Data Strategy 2030 ambitions. The work spans design through to delivery, embedding Data Ownership enterprise-wide across business areas, policy and digital and transformation programmes.
Key activities include:
- Support identification and onboarding of Data ownership roles
- Delivering conceptual data model workshops
- Applying data ownership across the data lifecycle and decision making
- Supporting the Data governance knowledge hub as the central access point for governance guidance.
- Enabling engagement between central data management capabilities (hub) and business areas (spokes)
The role will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting delivery and continuous improvement of Data Ownership.
Experience delivering data governance or data ownership/stewardship models.
- Strong understanding of data lifecycle
- Strategic and operational delivery capability
- Experience translating policy into practical delivery
- Experience working across multiple workstreams in complex environments. - Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to support delivery of change and adoption.
Essential: Working extensively within Data Governance in a Central Government Department
