Senior Director, Data Management Manager

Overview

As Senior Director, you will lead a strategic Data Management function in London, aligning data priorities with business, risk, and transformation goals. You’ll shape data governance, quality, and controls at scale, leveraging automation and AI-enabled capabilities. You’ll build high-performing teams and partner across business, technology, and risk to drive measurable data value and resilience. This is a chance to influence enterprise data strategy and deliver impactful, well-governed data across domains.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation
• wellbeing programs
• flexible global resources
• paid leaves and volunteer time
• focus on health and resilience
• equal opportunity employer

Responsibilities

• Set direction for data strategy execution, governance, quality, and performance across the organization
• Define and execute the strategic vision for data management aligned with business goals, regulatory expectations, and transformation objectives
• Build and lead large, cross-functional teams with effective organizational design and workforce planning
• Develop scalable, well-controlled data management practices to improve data quality, accessibility, and trust
• Collaborate with Business, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Compliance to align investments with data objectives
• Drive execution discipline, governance routines, issue remediation, and continuous improvement
• Implement and mature data governance frameworks including standards, ownership, lineage, metadata, and accountability
• Identify and scale automation and AI-enabled capabilities to enhance monitoring, workflow, and decision-making
• Lead data quality initiatives with proper controls, measurement, remediation, and business ownership
• Provide risk, control, and operational oversight with strong governance and regulatory awareness
• Manage budgets, resources, and investment priorities to support strategic plans
• Recruit, develop, and retain talent within an inclusive, high-performance culture
• Represent the organization in senior leadership forums, communicating data priorities and value
• Build trusted, cross-functional partnerships to navigate a matrixed organization

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; advanced degree preferred
• Significant experience in financial services or a regulated industry with data management expertise
• Senior leadership experience in large-scale data governance, operations, or related functions
• Proven ability to lead matrixed organizations, with strong people leadership and organizational design
• Track record of delivering transformation and modernization at scale
• Experience applying automation, data, and AI-driven capabilities to improve outcomes
• Deep understanding of operational risk, controls, governance, and regulatory expectations
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across multiple domains
• Experience with budgets, workforce planning, and strategy investment prioritization

• strategic thinking
• influence and partnership
• problem solving
• data governance
• data quality
• data lineage

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