Data & AI Governance Consultant

Comxps Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK technology consulting firm is seeking a skilled data governance consultant to support their clients. The role involves ensuring effective data governance practices, providing AI assurance, and working within structured environments. Candidates must demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and excellent command of English. Previous experience in regulated sectors is desirable. The position is hybrid and may involve travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data governance delivery, including standards and policy.
• Practical understanding of AI assurance and testing metrics.
• Excellent written and spoken English required.

Responsibilities

• Work under general direction and plan own work.
• Consult and communicate with stakeholders effectively.
• Monitor and evaluate AI models and data governance.

Skills

Data governance delivery

AI assurance

Consulting fundamentals

Stakeholder communication

Problem-solving

Written and spoken English

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Azure ML

Databricks

Power BI governance

Job description

Location: London, England – United Kingdom. UK (Hybrid) with travel to client sites

PERM ROLE

Clearance: SC

What you’ll bring (Essential)

• Proven experience in data governance delivery, including:
  • Policy & standards, stewardship models, RACI, decision forums.
  • Data quality (dimensions, rules, scorecards, monitoring, remediation).
  • Metadata & catalogue adoption (business glossary, lineage, classification & sensitivity).
  • Privacy & protection in data handling (e.g., DPIAs, retention, access control, auditability).
• Practical understanding of AI assurance, covering:
  • Training data preparation and validation (provenance, quality, representativeness, bias mitigation).
  • Model selection considerations (interpretability, performance, risk, security constraints).
  • Testing & evaluation (appropriate metrics, benchmarking, robustness/fairness/privacy tests, safe red-team exercises).
  • In-life governance (monitoring, drift detection, risk logging, periodic re-evaluation and re-training with realistic data, change approvals).
• Strong consulting fundamentals: structured problem‑solving, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to work under general direction, plan own work, and enable others—aligned to SFIA Level 4 expectations.
• Excellent written/spoken English.

Desirable

• Experience in UK Central Government, Defence, or other regulated/public sector environments.
• Familiarity with established frameworks/standards (e.g., DAMA‑DMBOK for data; NIST AI RMF 1.0, ISO/IEC 23894 AI risk management, ISO/IEC 27001, UK GDPR/DPA 2018).
• Hands‑on exposure to one or more platforms: Microsoft Purview, Azure ML, Databricks/MLflow, Azure Fabric, Power BI governance; plus experience with data catalogues (e.g., Collibra, Alation) is a bonus.
• Exposure to MLOps processes (model registry, approval workflows, monitoring, incidents & rollbacks) and risk/control libraries (e.g., bias, robustness, security, IP, privacy).
• Awareness of secure development and deployment constraints (e.g., air‑gapped networks, protective monitoring, model and data escrow).

Our dedicated would be pleased to discuss in more detail how we may be able to help