Data Governance Consultant

Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• SC Clearance - active or lapsed.
• Proven experience in data governance or data management.
• Strong knowledge of data quality, metadata, lineage, cataloguing and stewardship.
• Experience developing governance policies, standards and operating models.
• Practical experience with AI governance, AI assurance or responsible AI.
• Understanding of AI/model testing, evaluation and risk assessment.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• UK Central Government, Defence or regulated-sector experience.
• Defence, maritime, hydrographic, sonar, underwater mapping or oil & gas experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview, Azure ML, Databricks, MLflow or Microsoft Fabric.
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK, NIST AI RMF, ISO 23894, ISO 27001 or UK GDPR.
• MLOps, model monitoring or AI risk/control experience.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver data governance policies, standards, RACI and stewardship models.
• Develop data quality frameworks, scorecards and remediation processes.
• Support metadata, data cataloguing, business glossaries, lineage and classification.
• Contribute to AI assurance covering training data, model selection, testing, evaluation and monitoring.
• Produce governance frameworks, operating procedures, evaluation plans, risk assessments and assurance reports.
• Run stakeholder workshops and translate requirements into practical solutions.
• Support assurance reviews, audits and quality gates.
• Work with data architects, engineers and security teams across client engagements.
• Contribute to proposals, pre-sales and knowledge-sharing activities.

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• Databricks
• Fabric
• Support
• MLflow
• MLOps
• Security
• Sonar
• Cloud

More:

Meritus is recruiting for a Data Governance & AI Consultant to join a leading organisation delivering complex UK Central Government and Defence programmes. This hybrid role is based in Bristol with two days per week on-site, offering a salary of up to £80,000, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and private medical insurance. It is a great opportunity to work on major Government and Defence projects helping clients deliver trusted, secure and responsible AI.

last updated 35 week of 2026