Senior Data Governance Specialist

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom South Pole Full time
South Pole is an energetic, global company offering comprehensive sustainability solutions and services.

With offices spanning all continents across the globe, we strive to create a sustainable society and economy that positively impacts our climate, ecosystems and developing communities.

With our solutions, we inspire and enable our customers to create value from sustainability-related activities.

Our Corporate Functions team is the "enablement engine" of South Pole. Behind the scenes, we provide the business with world-class solutions and best practices that sustain business growth and success. We cover key areas such as Finance, HR, Office Management, Legal, IT, Operations, etc. If you are a smart, ambitious and dynamic professional with a strong passion to make a real difference in the fight against climate change, the below position may be right for you

Job summary:


The purpose of this role is to lead, develop and implement our data quality framework, master data management and data cataloguing tooling and general data governance to ensure we are continuously improving our data quality and always working from a single source of the truth.

You will embed and manage data governance processes across South Pole. You will work with a large variety of data, originating from both internal and external sources.

As such the role is part of the Data and Insights team within the Technology Team and reports directly to the Data Engineering & Governance Lead.

South Pole has a wealth of complex data, gathered from both our internal systems and external sources.

It is therefore important that you are aware of the compliance side of data governance and have worked on frameworks such as GDPR, UK Data Protection Act, PIPL, PECR and more.

There will be a legal team working alongside you to understand legal requirements of such frameworks but it will be your responsibility to ensure this is implemented on our data infrastructure.


In addition, you will work closely with Data Engineering to set up the appropriate data quality audits and checks to ensure continuous improvement.

This exciting opportunity will suit an individual with previous experience setting up and implementing data governance capabilities.

You understand the importance of good quality data and are enthused by the opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding global company (with all the solution changes that accompany such growth) in the sustainability sector.


Main tasks & responsibilities:

  • Data Champion
- develop and promote data best practices; empowering people to self-serve data insights, in a trusted, safe and secure way.

  • Develop and Maintain User Roles and Service Accounts Access Rights
- using GCP data governance tools.

  • Master Data Management
- develop, build and maintain the framework to ensure uniformity, accuracy, semantic consistency and accountability of the company's official data assets.

  • Data Quality
- identify, quantify and communicate data quality priorities in alignment with the company's best strategic interests.

  • Ensure Compliance
- with GDPR, UK Data Protection, PECR and all internal data company policies, liaising with our legal and data infrastructure teams.

Requirements:

Essential

  • Degree educated, ideally in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Experience working with GCP data solutions
  • Proven experience implementing data governance covering all topics mentioned in main tasks and responsibilities
  • Data Analysis using python/Tableau/SQL
  • Proven understanding of databases and data models
  • Knowledge of cloud based data infrastructure and tooling
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable

  • Hands on experience on with GCP data solutions
  • Experience working with information security frameworks
  • Change management experience
  • Proven experience as Data Governance specialist for global and multicultural companies

What we offer:

At South Pole, we care about our employees as much as we care about the planet. South Pole is not just an employer, we are a Team. South Pole does not just offer people a job, we offer you a career. By joining our team, you will find strong purpose and deep meaning in everything you do.

You will have the chance to make a real difference for our clients and for the planet, working alongside a passionate team of like-minded colleagues, while building your knowledge/skills and developing your career in a fun, dynamic, international and fast-growing organisation.

We're a planet of 7.5 billion unique and different people. We all have a contribution to make and South Pole is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status or disability.

Our recruitment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

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