Data Governance and Tooling Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering complex technology or data transformation programmes.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, and cross-functional team management skills.
• Experience with Agile delivery methodologies.
• Solid understanding of data governance, metadata management, MDM, and data quality.
• Experience implementing tools such as Alation, Profisee, Collibra, Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Ataccama, or similar is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of enterprise data architecture and cloud platforms would be advantageous.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex programmes and multiple stakeholders.
• Hands-on delivery mindset with strong governance and reporting capabilities.
• Proven track record of delivering successful enterprise data initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, delivery, and rollout of Alation and Profisee.
• Manage project plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
• Coordinate business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Facilitate governance forums, workshops, and steering committees.
• Lead Agile teams, managing backlogs, sprint planning, and delivery tracking.
• Produce status reports, RAID logs, and executive updates.
• Oversee platform configuration, integration, testing, go-live planning, and operational readiness.
• Support transition into BAU, including knowledge transfer and service readiness.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Informatica
• Support

More:

We are hiring for a hybrid role based in London, with three days on client site. This is an inside IR35 contract position focused on the successful delivery of Alation and Profisee, acting as the central point of coordination across business stakeholders, data governance teams, technology teams, vendors, and implementation partners. We value strong governance, leadership, and hands-on delivery, and we ask candidates to be alert to suspicious outreach claiming to be from us and to verify contact via the ManpowerGroup website.

last updated 33 week of 2026