Senior Data Governance Manager

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Data Governance

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

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £74,000 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 already well known for positively impacting the quality, discoverability and understanding of the BBC’s data. We are a close team that works well together and has an excellent reputation both collectively and individually. This role fits into the long term aims of Data Governance at the BBC; we heartily encourage and support both personal and professional growth for all team members.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• A varied and impactful role including such key responsibilities as:
• Advising and influencing engineering teams through practical governance leadership, helping shape platform decisions with long-term data integrity and security in mind.
• Developing, documenting and promoting platform-specific guidance on governance controls related to data sharing and ingestion pipelines, ensuring these are enforced through automation wherever 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 Engineers to define best practices in layered data management (e.g., medallion architecture), and establishing robust monitoring and alerting for platform compliance.
• Collaborating with software, engineering and architecture teams to implement shift-left data governance, ensuring governance metadata is captured during pipeline and platform development.
• Embedding and supporting data contract practices to govern Producer / Consumer relationships within the platform.
• Acting as a subject matter expert across internal data governance initiatives that touch platform services, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and regulatory obligations.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Broad data governance experience including creating and monitoring frameworks, writing standards and processes, and managing & utilising metadata.
• Experience in the implementation and/or management of a wide variety of platform governance practises in a cloud environment, ideally AWS.
• Excellent communication skills to build trusted relationships across engineering, product, and business teams; translating governance principles into actionable guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work directly with cloud-native data platforms such as AWS Redshift, S3, and Glue. Bringing hands-on experience in how data is stored, processed, and secured.
• Experience of designing and implementing modern access control models including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) to support scalable, secure data access.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• The management and stewardship of Data Products, ideally incorporating a data catalogue-based marketplace.
• Experience in the governance of analytics solutions such as Contentsquare, Amplitude, Mixpanel and visualisation tooling solutions such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker etc.
• Proficiency in complex dataset management and high-level programming languages such as SQL.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Disclaimer

This is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.