Data Governance and Protection Team - Commercial & Investment Bank Chief Data Office Lead

Join a team that sets standards, strengthens controls, and enables confident decision-making across the Commercial & Investment Bank and work with senior stakeholders across business, technology, risk, controls, compliance, and legal to drive measurable governance outcomes. 

As a Data Governance/Data Protection Lead, within the Commercial & Investment Bank Chief Data Office, you play a senior delivery role in defining and implementing governance frameworks that strengthen data management, reduce risk, and improve transparency and translate complex topics into clear executive materials that support informed decisions and effective oversight. 

Job responsibilities: 

• Deliver data related initiatives to sustainable closure by driving milestones, resolving dependencies, maintaining evidence, and escalating barriers early

• Improve executive oversight and accelerate delivery through reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and metrics on data related risk and control effectiveness 

• Maintain operating models, standards and applicable control procedures  

• Partner with key cross-functional partners to contribute to data strategy, shape priorities, and maintain strong delivery discipline

• Own project plans, milestones, dependencies, delivery risks, and stakeholder alignment for assigned cross-functional initiatives

• Prepare executive-ready materials for governance forums, senior committees, audits, regulators, and client engagements

• Experience coaching teams on data literacy and controlled adoption of new technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Bring 7+ years’ experience in financial services, fintech, data protection, data governance, risk, or controls

• Deliver complex data related initiatives and control procedures through clear ownership, prioritisation, evidence tracking, dependency management, and timely escalation

• Influence senior stakeholders and align cross-functional stakeholders and translate data related risks, issues, and remediation into clear executive messaging and reporting 

• Analyse data and trends to assess risk, identify control gaps and root causes, and recommend practical remediation and improve governance workflows through automation and analytics while maintaining auditability and appropriate oversight

• Produce high-quality executive materials and reporting using PowerPoint, Excel, and visualisation or workflow tools

• Support effective project and change management including prioritization, dependency management, and timely escalation

• Model resilience, adaptability, attention to detail, and continuous learning in a rapidly evolving data and AI environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience delivering data governance or data risk initiatives within an investment bank or other highly regulated financial institution and understanding of banking and markets, transaction flows, and front-to-back operating models to assess data protection exposure

• Expertise in data governance for applications and unstructured data assets and knowledge of access and entitlements governance

• Experience in evaluation of data related risks and challenge control design and effectiveness and proficiency with analytics, data visualization and automation tool