Senior Data Governance Manager (Principal Data Analyst)

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Language Log in to Profile BBC Employee Login CREATE JOB ALERT Senior Data Governance Manager (Principal Data Analyst) Job Description Job Requisition ID: 15308 Job Closing Date: 31/07/2025 JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Data Governance

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

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £60,000 - £70,000 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 Platform Engineering, Platform Architecture and Data Governance colleagues on the strategic direction and day-to-day implementation of platform governance across the BBC's new data platform.
• Develop, document and promote 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 Engineering to define best practices in layered data management (e.g., medallion architecture), and establish robust monitoring and alerting for platform compliance.
• Collaborate with software, engineering and architecture teams to implement shift-left governance, ensuring governance metadata is captured during pipeline and platform development.
• Embed and support data contract practices to govern Producer / Consumer relationships within the platform.
• Act 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.
• Excellent communication skills and a strong track record in building lasting and positive relationships with both technical and non-technical colleagues and stakeholders.
• Proven ability to influence engineering teams and platform stakeholders through advisory leadership and practical governance guidance.
• Experience in understanding and working with data stored and processed in cloud-based data platforms, ideally in the AWS ecosystem e.g. Redshift, S3, AWS Glue.
• Knowledge and experience of designing and implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in a modern data platform.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• The management and stewardship of Data Products, ideally incorporating a data catalogue-based marketplace.

Disclaimer

This job description 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.

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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.

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Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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