Data Governance Custodian 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid occasional travel to Reading Rate TBD Role Requirements: Experience: Background in data governance, data management, or related disciplines. Knowledge: Familiarity with governance frameworks, metadata management, and compliance requirements. Technical Awareness: Understanding of governance tooling (e.g., Microsoft Purview or similar). Collaboration: Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across nations and business areas. Key Responsibilities: Work under the Data Governance Manager to define foundational governance for a greenfield data environment. Define and maintain data dictionaries, glossary terms, standards, naming conventions, and metadata structures. Implement governance tooling once selected (e.g., Purview or equivalent). Engage with business areas and national representatives to understand data usage, classification, and control. Contribute to drafting governance policies and procedures aligned with security classifications and compliance requirements. Support early-stage activities such as data auditing, monitoring approaches, and documenting lineage/ownership models. Act as a bridge between business users and future architecture during framework creation. Desirable Skills: Experience with data governance tools (Purview, Collibra, Informatica, etc.). Knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks. Strong understanding of security classifications, export-control constraints, and compliance in regulated environments. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Ability to work in greenfield, multinational defence contexts.
Feb 08, 2026
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Data Governance Custodian 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid occasional travel to Reading Rate TBD Role Requirements: Experience: Background in data governance, data management, or related disciplines. Knowledge: Familiarity with governance frameworks, metadata management, and compliance requirements. Technical Awareness: Understanding of governance tooling (e.g., Microsoft Purview or similar). Collaboration: Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across nations and business areas. Key Responsibilities: Work under the Data Governance Manager to define foundational governance for a greenfield data environment. Define and maintain data dictionaries, glossary terms, standards, naming conventions, and metadata structures. Implement governance tooling once selected (e.g., Purview or equivalent). Engage with business areas and national representatives to understand data usage, classification, and control. Contribute to drafting governance policies and procedures aligned with security classifications and compliance requirements. Support early-stage activities such as data auditing, monitoring approaches, and documenting lineage/ownership models. Act as a bridge between business users and future architecture during framework creation. Desirable Skills: Experience with data governance tools (Purview, Collibra, Informatica, etc.). Knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks. Strong understanding of security classifications, export-control constraints, and compliance in regulated environments. Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Ability to work in greenfield, multinational defence contexts.
Senior Business Analyst - Metadata Lead 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid occasional travel to Reading Rate - £TBD Role Requirements: Proven experience in metadata management and data governance within highly regulated environments. Strong understanding of GDPR, PII, export controls, and protective markings. Ability to work within Azure-based ecosystems and integrate emerging services. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Key Responsibilities: Acts as a business analyst with deep data governance and metadata expertise. Lead the design of the programme-wide metadata schema that must scale across all nations. Engage with business users, legal teams, and security/export-control specialists to understand how data is classified and what restrictions apply. Capture existing metadata requirements from stakeholders and harmonise them into a single structured model. Consider and design for GDPR, PII, UK and international government protective markings, export control rules, and the EU AI Act. Define controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and metadata categories needed for compliant data sharing. Work closely with Data Custodians and Data Governance Deputy to ensure metadata and policy frameworks align. Desirable Skills: Experience with metadata management tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation). Knowledge of data modeling and enterprise architecture principles. Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) for metadata integration.
Feb 08, 2026
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Senior Business Analyst - Metadata Lead 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid occasional travel to Reading Rate - £TBD Role Requirements: Proven experience in metadata management and data governance within highly regulated environments. Strong understanding of GDPR, PII, export controls, and protective markings. Ability to work within Azure-based ecosystems and integrate emerging services. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Key Responsibilities: Acts as a business analyst with deep data governance and metadata expertise. Lead the design of the programme-wide metadata schema that must scale across all nations. Engage with business users, legal teams, and security/export-control specialists to understand how data is classified and what restrictions apply. Capture existing metadata requirements from stakeholders and harmonise them into a single structured model. Consider and design for GDPR, PII, UK and international government protective markings, export control rules, and the EU AI Act. Define controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and metadata categories needed for compliant data sharing. Work closely with Data Custodians and Data Governance Deputy to ensure metadata and policy frameworks align. Desirable Skills: Experience with metadata management tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation). Knowledge of data modeling and enterprise architecture principles. Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) for metadata integration.
Data Architect 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid occasional travel to Reading Rate TBD Role Requirements: Subject to clearance requirements Experience: Proven track record as a Data Architect in complex, multinational environments. Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of Azure services (Data Lake, Data Factory, Synapse) and familiarity with emerging cloud technologies. Security Awareness: Ability to design architectures with strict security boundaries, protective markings, export-control constraints, and multi-tenant segregation. Collaboration: Comfortable working in greenfield projects and multinational defence contexts with varying data access classifications. Key Responsibilities: Define and implement end-to-end data architecture across multiple business areas. Ensure architectural consistency across nations and business domains in collaboration with the Data Architect Manager. Evaluate and adopt new technologies to support secure multinational collaboration. Design and maintain distributed data environments and modern data warehousing patterns. Implement solutions that comply with security, regulatory, and export-control requirements. Extensive experience in Data standards ISO 10303 experience Experience in working with engineering data integration Desirable Skills: Hands-on experience with tools such as Databricks and Hadoop, and distributed data platforms. Knowledge of modern data warehousing and big data processing frameworks. Ability to work with Azure-based ecosystems and integrate emerging services. Strong understanding of data governance in highly regulated environments. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. ERP PLM Manufacturing
Feb 08, 2026
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Data Architect 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid occasional travel to Reading Rate TBD Role Requirements: Subject to clearance requirements Experience: Proven track record as a Data Architect in complex, multinational environments. Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of Azure services (Data Lake, Data Factory, Synapse) and familiarity with emerging cloud technologies. Security Awareness: Ability to design architectures with strict security boundaries, protective markings, export-control constraints, and multi-tenant segregation. Collaboration: Comfortable working in greenfield projects and multinational defence contexts with varying data access classifications. Key Responsibilities: Define and implement end-to-end data architecture across multiple business areas. Ensure architectural consistency across nations and business domains in collaboration with the Data Architect Manager. Evaluate and adopt new technologies to support secure multinational collaboration. Design and maintain distributed data environments and modern data warehousing patterns. Implement solutions that comply with security, regulatory, and export-control requirements. Extensive experience in Data standards ISO 10303 experience Experience in working with engineering data integration Desirable Skills: Hands-on experience with tools such as Databricks and Hadoop, and distributed data platforms. Knowledge of modern data warehousing and big data processing frameworks. Ability to work with Azure-based ecosystems and integrate emerging services. Strong understanding of data governance in highly regulated environments. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. ERP PLM Manufacturing
