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Our Enterprise Data Governance Office (EDGO), part of the broader Data Governance, Quality & Trust organization, is seeking an Enterprise Data Governance Lead to partner across Technologies, Product, Engineering, Legal, Risk & Compliance, Privacy, InfoSec, and business stakeholders.
This role addresses a specific problem: EDGO has been absorbing ad hoc Risk & Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and InfoSec work without clear authority or accountability.
You will design the standards, accountability models, and operating processes that correct this, shifting day-to-day ownership back to the appropriate data and application owners and clarifying which controls should sit outside EDGO
What You'll Do
Manage data as a strategic product by defining clear ownership, accessibility, and usability of datasets, and establishing standard definitions that enable seamless cross-functional understanding, including consistent taxonomies across booking, ticketing, servicing and supplier data.
Develop and help operationalize data owner and data steward accountability models, establishing clear decision rights before governance structures scale across domains.
Develop a robust data governance framework that ensures high-quality, well-documented data assets, promotes data democratization, and supports reliable outcomes through consistent data interpretation and standardization.
Understand and help govern data contracts owned by data producers, ensuring contract standards support downstream data consumer needs and prevent upstream changes from 'breaking' product features.
Enable self-service product discovery by managing the data catalog to ensure product teams can independently find and understand the lineage of data.
Proactively monitor and audit data quality metrics, governance effectiveness, and data governance maturity, providing actionable insights and recommendations to continuously elevate data management practices.
Support governance of prioritized metrics and KPIs within the enterprise semantic layer, partnering with platform and analytics teams to ensure metric definitions align to governed data domains and standard business terminology.
Partner with Privacy and InfoSec teams on data handling, access, and protection requirements as they intersect with governance work, without absorbing primary ownership of those functions.
Support internal and external audit readiness by maintaining evidence repositories, control documentation, and remediation tracking for data governance and data quality findings.
Contribute to data readiness and governance standards that support GBT's AI-enabled operating model, ensuring governed, trustworthy data underpins generative and agentic AI travel use cases.
Design and implement comprehensive training and awareness programs that advance data governance best practices, data governance principles, and a culture of data democratization across the organization.
What We're Looking For
Bachelor's or higher degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Management, or a related field.
5+ years of experience designing and implementing data governance frameworks, data product management, and standards.
Experience establishing data owner/steward accountability models and decision-rights frameworks, ideally in an organization building governance from an early or immature state.
Experience with data governance tools/platforms (e.g., Alation, Ataccama, Collibra) and data cataloging.
Familiarity with cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake) and enterprise software applications relevant to governance tooling.
Familiarity with semantic layer or metrics governance concepts (metric definitions, KPI standardization) preferred.
Location
Manchester, United…