Data Governance Specialist

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience in Data Governance.
• Experience designing governance frameworks, policies and operating models.
• Knowledge of UK GDPR, DPA 2018, DPIAs and government security standards (NCSC, GovAssure, Technology Code of Practice).
• Experience with cross-organisational data sharing, data ownership and metadata governance.
• Understanding of attribute/policy-based access control (ABAC/PBAC).
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• We define governance frameworks, data ownership and stewardship models.
• We establish data standards.
• We ensure compliance with UK data protection legislation and government security guidance.
• We work closely with business, technical and security stakeholders.
• We help embed best practice across a complex digital transformation programme.
• We support a secure, cross-organisational data-sharing platform for a major government data programme.

Technologies

• Support
• Security

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We are a consultancy supporting a major government data programme and we are looking for an experienced Data Governance Specialist to help shape the governance and compliance framework for a secure, cross-organisational data-sharing platform. This is an outside IR35 contract paying £550–£600 per day, remote, with an ASAP start. We are working on a complex digital transformation programme and partnering with business, technical and security stakeholders to embed best practice across the initiative.

last updated 28 week of 2026