Enterprise Data Architect & Governance Lead

Salary: £57,000 - 97,000 per year

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data governance, architecture, analytics governance, or enterprise reporting controls.
• Experience operating across Finance, Sales, Revenue Operations, HR, Engineering, Product, and Business Intelligence functions.
• Strong understanding of data lineage, data quality controls, source-system reconciliation, data transformation processes, and reporting controls.
• Experience supporting Executive, Board, and Investor Reporting.
• Experience defining governance frameworks, ownership models, and metric standards.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating cross-functional agreement on enterprise metric definitions and ownership, particularly in environments where multiple functions have independently built reporting capabilities and no shared standard exists.
• Experience designing operating models for enterprise data functions, including roles and responsibilities, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, governance forums, and resourcing requirements to sustain an ongoing data governance capability.
• Familiarity with privacy considerations relating to the use of customer and employee data.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong documentation, process design, and executive communication skills.
• Experience in SaaS, subscription, EdTech, or other data-intensive technology businesses.
• Familiarity with sales, bookings, ARR, pipeline, retention, customer, usage, and financial reporting data.
• Experience working with Salesforce and related GTM data structures.
• Exposure to ERP, HRIS, and production data environments.
• Experience supporting reporting used for Board materials, executive reviews, financial planning, or investor reporting.
• Experience designing governance models in a distributed analytics environment where multiple functions have independently developed reporting capabilities.
• Management consulting or specialist data advisory background, with experience leading multiple data governance or data strategy engagements across different client organisations.

Responsibilities:

• Assess our current reporting and analytics landscape.
• Identify the root causes of fragmented reporting and conflicting metrics.
• Define ownership and governance principles for critical enterprise data.
• Develop a high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics.
• Establish standards for enterprise metric definitions and trusted reporting.
• Recommend an operating model that balances enterprise consistency with functional autonomy.
• Produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment.
• Facilitate alignment across executive and business stakeholders.

Technologies:

• Business Intelligence
• ERP
• Salesforce
• Architect
• Support

More:

We are Turnitin, a recognized innovator in global education with over 25 years of experience partnering with educators and institutions to develop learning integrity solutions. Our services are used by over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations in more than 185 countries. We offer a remote-first culture that supports purpose and accountability, along with a comprehensive rewards package that includes generous time off, health and wellness programs, education reimbursement, paid volunteer time, parental leave, retirement benefits, and other global benefits that vary by country. We are a diverse global team united by our mission to ensure the integrity of education and improve learning outcomes. This is a full-time, mid-senior level role in our Education function within the Computer Software industry.

last updated 34 week of 2026