Data Management Strategic Lead

JOB TITLE: Data Management Strategic Lead

SALARY: £65,385 - £79,915

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least

two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

Are you passionate about the power of data? Are you fuelled by combining data and analytics with evolving technology, and want to join a team that exemplifies diversity, collaboration, and a curious approach with bold ambitions to transform the data culture across Finance, then the Data Management Strategic Lead role at Lloyds Banking Group is perfect for you!

About this opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. In Finance we're on the mission Empower through Trusted Data, and we need your help to do it!

Join our Data Management team in the Finance Data & Analytics Office as we evolve our data & analytics offering and culture to become a data-led organization. Our data mission is central to our Finance transformation strategy.

Our team champions Data Management across Finance and across other business areas, driving forward Group Data Policy and Regulatory compliance. We manage and develop LBG Finance metadata, including data dictionaries, data profiling, data quality rules, controls and data lineage, using strategic tools such as Collibra and Ataccama. We support development of Data Management capabilities by implementing improvements and embedding strategy.

As a core component of the Finance Platform, we collaborate with the Chief Data & Analytics Office to embed key Data Management policies and frameworks and oversee the adherence to our Group Data policy. We provide key inputs into Governance packs and present at the various committees and forums. We demonstrate continuous learning and self-development, especially around emerging Agile and Systems thinking concepts.

Want to be part of our journey? Are you passionate about the power of data, fueled when combining data and analytics, with evolving technology? Want to join a team that exemplifies diversity, collaboration, a curious approach and that has bold ambitions to transform the data culture forward across Finance? If the answer to these questions is yes, we would love to hear from you…

Day to day, you will:

• Lead strategic priorities for data – focused on embedding data management accountabilities to teams across Finance

• Ensure divisional compliance to Group Data Policy and key regulations such as BCBS239 and GDPR

• Support Finance to identify report and mitigate Data Management risks

• Drive forward Data Management activities collaborating with Finance colleagues

• Engage with Platform Teams supporting changes to Finance data

• Understand, document and improve our most important data

• Collaborate with Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) and other Business Unit Data Offices

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need:

We need a motivated person with knowledge in Data Management principles, including metadata management, data issues management and risk management. As the strategic lead for key data management initiatives, this person will support, influence and complete key strategic data management projects – driving the agenda for implementing good Data Management practice. We want someone who is curious, dedicated, and thrives in a fast-paced work environment.

• Familiarity with Finance Data and application of Data Policy processes and Frameworks is essential. Knowledge of LBG data policy and external Regulatory requirements (e.g. BCBS239) is advantageous.

• Utilises key Data Management tools, practices and processes, particularly Collibra and metadata management

• Have experience of delivering change to satisfy Regulatory requirements

• Have a strong track record of delivery and understand how the Group delivers change with the ability to drive continuous improvement against an ever changing landscape

• Approaching with curiosity, pushing the boundaries of automation (through AI) and finding ways to enhance our control landscape, to improve processes across Finance

• Bring a problem solving mentality and growth mindset, able to challenge and constructively debate key issues within Data Management

• Collaborates effectively with diverse partners, embracing a can-do attitude, as Finance and the whole Group progress in the Data Management journey.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Knowledge of core Data Management principles, covering metadata management, data issues management, and risk management

• Good communication skills adept at using a wide range of media

• Familiarity of embedding Data Policy processes and Frameworks to diverse stakeholders

• Experience delivering change and meeting standards to satisfy Regulatory requirements

• Problem-solving mentality and growth mindset, able to challenge and constructively debate key issues within Data Management

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.