Data Governance Manager

The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.

Legal and General Investment Management is looking to hire a Data Governance Manager into a growing team to support in the embedding and deploying of a Data Governance framework across the 1st and 2nd line teams in LGIM.

This role will see you implement the company data policy, standards and controls and support change, IT, risk, compliance, and the wider business with the adoption of the new data policy.

What you’ll be doing:

Implementation of the Data Governance Framework

•   Deploying the Data Governance Framework working closely with 1st Line, 2nd line, data teams, IT teams, change transformation projects and the business to ensure it is successful

•   Developing standards, policies, and procedures to support the implementation of the data governance framework

•   Maintaining ownership, data standards (data definitions), authorised sources and data quality metrics

•   Establishing the necessary forums to support the ongoing implementation of the Data Governance Framework.

Supporting Data Risk Assessments

•   Supporting the LGIM data risk assessment process

•   Supporting business teams to assess their use of data and ensure the right level of controls are applied for the consistency and integrity of data to meet business need and mitigate data risks

•   Maintaining data risks in the risk registers and escalate where needed.

Supporting Data Audit

•   Maintaining a collaborative relationship with Audit (3rd line of defence) and ensure data related Audit Actions are completed to agreed timescales.

Supporting Data Priorities from a Data Governance perspective

•   Providing Data Governance expertise to strategic data initiatives and support appropriate deployment of data controls to mitigate data risks.

•   Proposing improvements to the Data Management Policy

•   Educating the business around data governance

•   A detailed understanding of data governance and controls required to mitigate.

•   Experience of writing data governance related standards, guidance and processes.

•   Excellent understanding and practical experience of implementing data governance and data risk across multiple stakeholders and roles.

•   A demonstrated collaborative approach to working with data operational teams, developers, architects, and subject matter experts alike, to establish the facts, and ensure good communication of requirements

•   Excellent communication skills to articulate data and the associated benefits to a non-expert audience.

•   Relationship and stakeholder management with experience of working professionally with a diverse group of stakeholders, managers, and subject matter experts, building positive and productive relationships

•   Experience of working in an Agile environment with agile development capabilities and toolsets - Jira and Confluence

•   An understanding of Data Engineering and Data Ops concepts, processes and toolsets is desirable   

•   Skills in data analysis (understanding macros, scripts, queries to profile data and determine its data quality) is desirable

•   Exposure to and confidence in cloud computing concepts and data use cases is desirable

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.