Data Governance Coordinator

As a Data Governance Coordinator at ICIS, you will help ensure data assets are managed as products with solid governance, quality, metadata, and standards. You’ll bridge central data capabilities and Data Stewards to drive adoption and trust across the organisation. You will oversee datasets and data products, monitor quality and metadata completeness, and embed governance into delivery processes. This role supports transparency and data lineage, enabling cross-functional collaboration to improve decision making. You’ll join a mission-driven team shaping data governance across the data estate at scale.

• country-specific benefits

• Oversee a defined set of datasets and data products across the Lakehouse and wider data estate
• Ensure data products have clear ownership through assigned Data Stewards
• Track the completeness, maturity, and usability of data products
• Ensure adherence to enterprise data governance standards and escalate where standards are not met
• Embed governance requirements into delivery and change processes
• Drive the completeness, quality, and discoverability of metadata and catalogue information
• Monitor data quality outcomes, identify gaps, and support prioritisation of issues
• Promote transparency through the capture of data lineage and coordination across business, engineering, and central teams

• Experience supporting or coordinating data governance activities across multiple datasets or products
• Understanding of data ownership, stewardship, metadata management, and data catalogue practices
• Knowledge of data quality principles and monitoring approaches
• Ability to review governance compliance and support the implementation of standards
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills across business and technical teams
• Ability to coordinate activities, drive adoption of processes, and influence positive outcomes
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and a focus on continuous improvement
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain data governance concepts clearly

• strong collaboration
• stakeholder management
• excellent communication
• data governance
• data stewardship
• metadata management