Senior Manager, Taxonomies and Master Data Management
Application Deadline: 4 March 2026
Department: Data Management Office
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London
Compensation: £52,500 - £77,500 / year
Description
Location: London / Sheffield / Hybrid Working
(Expectation that you will attend an office 2 days per week)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Up to £65,000 (Sheffield) / Up to £77,500 (London) depending on experience.
The Role
In this role you will lead a team of colleagues and oversee strategic embedding of data and metadata processes and capabilities. These will include data domain management, data sourcing, glossaries, data taxonomies and reference data operations, strategic data sourcing. This is a strategic role at the centre of our data transformation, ensuring our organisation can trust, understand, and confidently use its most critical data.
What you'll do
- Lead a specialist team delivering taxonomies, glossaries, reference data and data sourcing standards
- Establish authoritative systems of record and ensure data is well defined and trusteddefined and trusted
- Identify and manage risks across the data landscape
- Drive strategic data sourcing and ensure clarity of data origin and lineage
- Implement and integrate data management tools across the enterprise
- Partner with teams across BBB to align processes, improve consistency and deliver efficiencies
What you'll bring
- Significant experience in taxonomy, metadata, or data sourcing leadership
- Proven delivery of data management capabilities in financial services or government
- Strong knowledge of DAMA, EDMC/DCAM or similar frameworks
- Expertise in logical data modelling and data normalisation
- Experience in data risk assessments, control testing and process documentation
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead high performing teamsperforming teams
If you're passionate about building clarity, structure and trust in data, we'd love to hear from you.
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Key Benefits
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- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology and plenty more