Data Governance Analyst

Mesh-AI Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data management firm is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to join their London office in a hybrid capacity. This pivotal role involves designing and implementing data governance frameworks while collaborating with various teams to enhance data management practices. Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 3 years' experience in data governance and solid analytical skills in SQL. The firm offers competitive benefits including a generous learning budget, enhanced family leave, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Pension contributions matched up to 7%

£1,000 annual learning budget

Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

Travel season ticket loan

Access to London O2 events

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in data governance, management, or quality roles.
• Solid skills in analyzing and using SQL or similar languages.
• Strong communication and ability to work with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Support design and rollout of Data Governance framework.
• Conduct data profiling and assess quality outputs.
• Maintain metadata and ownership in data catalogue.

Skills

Data governance experience

SQL proficiency

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

3+ years in data management or related role

Understanding of GDPR

Tools

GCP (BigQuery, DataPlex)

Data catalogues

Job description

Overview

🚀Are you ready to transform the insurance industry?

Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.

Having achieved rapid growth since being founded in 2011, we’ve won over 1.5 million customers in Home, Motor and Pet insurance and have been ranked the UK’s No.1-rated home insurer by Review Centre since 2013. 🏆

We are a growing Data Management function within Group Data, responsible for shaping how data is defined, governed and relied upon across Policy Expert. Our work spans data governance, data quality, metadata management, data definition and stewardship - enabling data to be managed consistently and used with confidence in a modern cloud environment.

You’ll be joining our team at a pivotal time as we build out our data management and data governance capabilities as part of a major GCP transformation. Working closely with the Data Governance Manager, and collaborating with teams across Policy Expert, you’ll help embed practical and scalable governance processes for how data is delivered and used.

This is a hand-on role with high visibility, offering the opportunity to work across a modern data stack, engage with a wide range of stakeholders, and make a tangible impact on how data is managed across Policy Expert.

Your day to day

As a Data Governance analyst, you will support the design and roll-out of our Data Governance framework and processes, working hands-on to deliver activities including:

• Running and reviewing data profiling and data quality outputs, identifying issues, assessing impact and supporting investigation and remediation
• Maintaining metadata and ownership information in the data catalogue
• Working with SMEs to create and maintain definitions for key metrics and concepts
• Supporting data access governance by working with cross-functional teams to ensure access is appropriate, documented, and aligned to requirements
• Maintaining core governance registers (e.g. DQ issues, CDEs, PII classifications)
• Producing governance reporting to support prioritisation and decision making
• Working with delivery teams to embed governance in BAU e.g. onboarding new datasets with appropriate cataloguing and data quality checks

Who are you

You enjoy working with business and technical teams to support how data is defined, governed and used.

Qualifications

You must have:

• Experience in data governance, data management, data quality or related role (3 years minimum)
• A solid understanding of data governance and data management concepts (e.g. data quality, metadata management, data cataloguing, lineage)
• Excellent analytical skills and confidence using SQL or similar
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with data catalogues and metadata tooling (exposure to GCP stack such as BigQuery and DataPlex is a plus)
• Knowledge of data privacy and compliance frameworks (e.g. GDPR)
• Experience working with insurance data
• Familiarity with governance frameworks or best practice models (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM)

Location and benefits

📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode.

💸 We match your pension contributions up to 7%

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)

😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity

🚉 Travel season ticket loan

🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge

What we stand for and next steps

“We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment”

At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support.

We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements.

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