Enterprise Data Architect & Governance Lead – 9-month engagement (UK Remote)

Overview

In this role you will shape Turnitin’s enterprise data strategy to enable trusted, scalable, and decision-ready information. You’ll partner with executives to assess the current analytics landscape, define a pragmatic target state, and deliver a roadmap for enterprise reporting and analytics. You will establish governance, ownership, and data quality standards to ensure consistent metrics across functions. This is a chance to influence how a global SaaS education company measures performance and drives decisions with enterprise insight.

Pay / Benefits

• remote-first culture
• health care coverage
• education reimbursement
• paid time off
• self-care days
• retirement plan with match

Responsibilities

• Assess current reporting and analytics landscape to identify fragmentation
• Define ownership and governance principles for critical data
• Develop high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics
• Establish standards for metric definitions and trusted reporting
• Recommend an operating model balancing consistency with functional autonomy
• Produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment
• Facilitate alignment across executive and business stakeholders

Key requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data governance, architecture, analytics governance, or enterprise reporting controls
• Experience across Finance, Sales & Revenue Operations, HR, Engineering, Product, and BI
• Strong understanding of data lineage, data quality controls, source-system reconciliation, data transformation, and reporting controls
• Experience supporting Executive, Board & Investor Reporting
• Governance framework, ownership models, and metric standards definition
• Cross-functional facilitation to agree on enterprise metric definitions and ownership
• Operating model design for enterprise data functions including roles, decision rights, escalation, governance forums, and resourcing
• Familiarity with privacy considerations for customer and employee data
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong documentation and process design skills

• stakeholder management
• facilitation
• executive communication
• enterprise data architecture
• data governance
• analytics governance

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