European Data Governance Partner 

Company: Vanguard
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Location: Manchester
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will operationalise the European Data Governance Framework, delivering data quality insights, governance reporting and remediation. You will partner with Data Governance, Risk, Privacy and Compliance functions to translate complex data concepts into actionable governance in European business areas. You will enable end-to-end process documentation, control design and metadata management to support auditability and regulatory alignment. This role offers exposure to a large regulated environment and the chance to shape data governance practices across Europe.

Pay / Benefits

  • hybrid working model

Responsibilities

  • Produce data quality dashboards, scorecards and management information; map Critical Data Elements (CDEs)
  • Support data lineage, process validation, control testing, metadata reviews and data quality assessments
  • Investigate data quality issues, identify root causes and support remediation
  • Document end-to-end data processes, flows, controls and governance artefacts
  • Design and embed controls with Data Governance Partners to mitigate key risk drivers
  • Maintain business glossary, data dictionary, CDE ownership and metadata records in Collibra and related repositories
  • Maintain roadmaps, RAID logs and status reporting across multiple workstreams; facilitate workshops
  • Identify opportunities to simplify or automate monitoring, governance processes and reporting

Key requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Significant experience as a Data Analyst or Business Analyst with process and requirements documentation
  • Experience producing dashboards, reporting and management information
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder and communication skills in a regulated environment
  • Excellent communication skills; ability to translate technical detail into clear summaries
  • Stakeholder management
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Collibra

Posted: September 14th, 2026