Senior Data Governance Manager

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LOCATION: London, Newcastle, Cardiff, Salford or Glasgow (Hybrid)

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000 - £70,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the enterprise-wide Data Governance Team at the BBC to be at the heart of our digital future. As a Senior Data Governance Manager (Platform Governance), you will play a key role in ensuring that the BBC's existing and upcoming data platforms are the best they can possibly be, providing reliable, trustworthy, well-managed, and understood data to the whole organisation.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

The Data Governance team is known for positively impacting the quality, discoverability, and understanding of the BBC's data. We are a close-knit team with an excellent reputation both collectively and individually. This role supports the long-term aims of Data Governance at the BBC; we encourage and support personal and professional growth for all team members.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Advising Platform Engineering, Platform Architecture, and Data Governance colleagues on the strategic direction and implementation of platform governance across the BBC's data platform.
• Developing, documenting, and promoting platform-specific guidance on governance controls related to data sharing and ingestion pipelines, ensuring enforcement through automation where possible.
• Defining and overseeing controls for data lifecycle governance, including data classification, access policies (RBAC/ABAC), and audit capabilities.
• Leading collaboration with Data Producers and Platform Engineering to define best practices in layered data management (e.g., medallion architecture), and establishing monitoring and alerting for compliance.
• Collaborating with software, engineering, and architecture teams to implement shift-left governance, capturing governance metadata during pipeline and platform development.
• Embedding and supporting data contract practices to govern Producer/Consumer relationships within the platform.
• Serving as a subject matter expert on internal data governance initiatives related to platform services, ensuring alignment with policies and regulations.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Broad data governance experience, including creating and monitoring frameworks, writing standards and processes, and managing metadata.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to build positive relationships with both technical and non-technical colleagues and stakeholders.
• Ability to influence engineering teams and platform stakeholders through advisory leadership and practical guidance.
• Experience with data stored and processed in cloud-based platforms, preferably in AWS (e.g., Redshift, S3, AWS Glue).
• Knowledge of designing and implementing RBAC and ABAC in modern data platforms.

DESIRABLE BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Management and stewardship of Data Products, ideally with a data catalogue-based marketplace.

DISCLAIMER

This job description outlines the essential characteristics and responsibilities of the role, including required skills, knowledge, and experience for satisfactory performance. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties involved.

Note: If offered this role, the BBC will conduct employment screening checks, including references, eligibility to work, safeguarding, and social media checks if applicable. Offers are conditional on these checks.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable roles within the organization and will prioritize these applications.

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Life at BBC

Benefits include a competitive salary, flexible benefits, a 35-hour workweek, 25 days annual leave (plus optional extra days), pension scheme, and discounts on health, dental, and gym memberships.

We support your career development and offer flexible working arrangements.

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