Data Governance Manager

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Location: Swindon, Northampton, or London

Description

Nationwide is establishing a data-driven culture across the Society that will support our business modernisation and trans formation goals. We are looking for enthusiastic data professionals capable of embedding good data management practices across Retail Products. As a Data Governance manager, you will be at the forefront of this exciting initiative.

Retail Products look after the banking and savings of 16 million members and business customers by offering competitive propositions that meet core needs, reward loyalty, broaden and deepen relationships and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Society. We’re looking to add to our talented and experienced team that support the data and insight needs that underpin much of the decision-making across our product ranges.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon, Northampton, or London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing

• You’ll be working with business SMEs to identify their critical data and document this in a central metadata repository.
• You will champion good data management practice and undertake important activities that will ensure the data most important to the Society is well managed and controlled in line with the Society’s Data Governance Policy.
• You’ll use your engagement and collaboration skills to work alongside subject matter experts and collaborate across a growing community of data focussed people to promote a data-driven culture and drive good data outcomes across the Society.
• You will need to use your data management knowledge and experience when applying our data management controls and be familiar with delivering some key capabilities such as data lineage, metadata management and supporting data quality management reporting through profiling and understanding the data.
• You will ensure the data we use in our systems and reports is clearly understood and optimised for its main purpose and potential reuse across the Society.
• You’ll coach and support the development of a small team of data professionals empowering them to be product data subject matter experts.

About you

You will have:

• Metadata expertise – Hands on experience in defining what good looks like for business metadata management, building and maintaining data dictionaries and documenting definitions, business rules and data quality rules.
• Data Quality profiling experience – Experience of profiling data to help inform business rules, establishing a basis for what good data looks like for the Society.
• Ability to build and articulate value cases to drive the right course of action in response to Metadata issues.
• The ability to understand business scopes, business terms and ensuring accurate metadata is captured and updated.
• The ability to lead and bring people with you to galvanise action through making metadata management relevant to them.
• Experience delivering technical solutions to technical and non-technical people.
• Experience with Data Governance tools (e.g. Collibra, Informatica).
• Experience with SAS and/or SQL.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.

Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.

Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purposedriven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

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