BigQuery Data Governance & Access Management Consultant

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• 8+ years experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or Data Strategy
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Deep understanding of BigQuery security and access management
• Proven experience designing enterprise data governance frameworks
• Experience implementing RBAC and enterprise access management models
• Strong stakeholder engagement and consulting skills
• Experience creating governance policies and operating models
• Good understanding of UK GDPR and data privacy principles
• Desirable: experience in utilities, water, energy, financial services, or other regulated industries
• Desirable: experience with Google Dataplex, Data Catalog, IAM, and Cloud Identity

Responsibilities:

• Assess the current BigQuery and GCP data landscape
• Define enterprise-wide data governance, access, and usage policies
• Establish governance guardrails for analytical data consumption
• Develop data ownership, stewardship, and accountability models
• Create data classification and handling standards
• Design and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) within BigQuery and GCP
• Apply least privilege access principles
• Define business-aligned access groups and entitlement structures
• Develop privileged access management processes
• Establish periodic access reviews and recertification processes
• Work closely with security and compliance teams to ensure auditability and traceability
• Enable secure self-service analytics across the organisation
• Develop governance controls for trusted data consumption
• Support data cataloguing and metadata management practices
• Create reusable access request processes
• Enable trusted data domains while reducing dependency on central data teams
• Define responsibilities for Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Custodians
• Produce governance policies, standards, and supporting documentation
• Facilitate governance workshops and stakeholder engagement
• Support governance adoption and organisational change initiatives

Technologies:

• BigQuery
• Cloud
• GCP
• IAM
• Support
• RBAC
• Security

More:

We are a major UK organisation offering a 6-month contract for a BigQuery Data Governance & Access Management Consultant. The role is based in Kent with a hybrid working arrangement of 2 days onsite. This is an opportunity to help us establish a secure, scalable, and business-focused data governance framework across our Google Cloud Platform environment, supporting secure self-service analytics while maintaining regulatory compliance.

last updated 31 week of 2026