Data Governance Lead

Full time, Permanent

Join Our Team as a Data Governance Lead.

Are you passionate about data governance and ready to make a significant impact?

We’reseeking a proactive and experienced Data Governance Lead to shape and deliver our data governance strategy, ensuring our data is trusted, secure, and used effectively across the organisation. This is a new, high-impact role that will work cross-functionally to establish robust frameworks, policies, and processes that underpin data quality, compliance, and value creation.

About Morgan Sindall Morgan Sindall Construction is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. Together, we create great results for our customers, partners and people. We are one of the UK’S most successful Tier 1 contractors. As a progressive and ambitious company, our employees benefit from a safe and rewarding working environment.

About the role

The Governance lead will devise and implement data governance and master data management processes and derive data management structures and metadata to support consistent data retrieval, integration, analysis, pattern recognition and interpretation across the organisation.

You will independently validate external information from multiple sources, and plan effective data storage, sharing and publishing practices within the organisation. Identifying and addressing issues preventing optimal use of information assets, you will provide expert advice to maximise data asset value, ensuring data quality and compliance.

The Governance Lead will lead on exploration of new approaches for data visualisation and establish the purpose and parameters of the data visualisation, overseeing the use of data visualisation tools and techniques.

Why You Should Apply:

· Lead the Way: Take charge of designing, implementing, and continuously improving our data governance framework, aligned to business priorities and regulatory requirements.

· Collaborate and Innovate: Work closely with IT, data, risk, legal, and operational teams to embed governance into data lifecycle management.

· Drive Excellence: Champion data quality initiatives and support the resolution of data issues through root cause analysis and prevention.

· Champion a Data-Driven Culture: Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and increase the data literacy of the organisation by educating and engaging stakeholders.

· Shape the Role: This is a new role in our organisation, giving you the unique opportunity to shape and define it according to your vision and expertise.

What We’re Looking For:

· Proven experience in a data governance, data management, or data strategy leadership role.

· Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM) and data quality principles.

· Experience implementing governance tools or platforms (e.g. Collibra, Informatica, Alation) is a plus.

· Solid understanding of data protection laws and regulatory compliance (e.g. GDPR).

· Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

· Strategic mindset with a practical, delivery-focused approach.

With a strong understanding of governance frameworks, you will have the ability to identify, assess and mitigate governance related risks. We are looking for a candidate with experience in both IT and Business roles, with experience of working across difference departments to understand the diverse business needs and how IT can address them.

We are Morgan Sindall Construction Central Management

Our people are encouraged and rewarded to work as a team to achieve our Perfect Delivery philosophy. The success of this strategy to: find – win – deliver – repeat has yielded a healthy forward order book, enabling us to focus on strengthening our long-term work winning capability in our primary sectors of: education, public sector frameworks, civic buildings, leisure, investment linked opportunities and healthcare.

Our commitment to our people is as strong as the commitment to our clients. At Morgan Sindall Construction we recognise that our employees play a vital role in helping us achieve our goals. As a result, the company develops and promotes these employees who share their same sense of dedication. Our strength is our people whose skills, knowledge and integrity keep us at the forefront of our industry.

If you are interested in furthering your career in an inclusive and supportive environment, apply to us today.

Equality Statement

Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

We recruit individuals who embody our core values of professionalism, expertise and trust which has given us a fantastic variety of people and cultures across our organisation.

Morgan Sindall Construction are committed to collaborating with skilled and dedicated people, we recognise that valuable experience is gained outside of the industry. We are welcoming and fully supportive of Veteran and Service Leaver applicants for all roles within the business.

We celebrate our diverse teams who make Morgan Sindall Construction the inclusive, collaborative and rewarding place it is to work. We hire the best in the industry, provide them the support to achieve their goals and challenge them to make a real impact on our business. If you want to join an organisation that truly sees and harnesses what makes you unique, apply to us today.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels that they belong and can make a meaningful contribution. We encourage applicants regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or parental status.Morgan Sindall Construction is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.

Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation. Our recruitment process should be accessible to all. If you need any assistance or accommodation during the recruitment process