Data Governance and Standards Lead

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Team: Performance and Insight

Salary banding:  £55,000 - £65,000

Experience: 1-3  years in similar role, with broad experience of team working and cross functional engagement

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to:  Joanna Hemingway, Senior Analytics Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Architect, Champion, Standards

Top 3 qualities for this role: Supporting, improving, proactive

 

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

 

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

 

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

• The Performance and Insight team exists to provide greater understanding of our operational performance, improve the accuracy and accessibility of data, and adapt quickly to our changing operational and technical environment. We handle complex and challenging issues and projects, embed a culture of continuous improvement, and enable the business’ strategic transformation.
• Through great Data Governance -we make it easier to find and understand our performance data by implementing great data governance ensuring that data is managed systematically so it can be used efficiently, securely, and is accessible to those who need it.
• Easier to understand performance data - we create simple to understand MI against a set of visual standards, we work with each part of our business to educate our teams on how to spend the least amount of time finding the data vs investing their time in making the right decisions based on what the data tell us
• Understanding the work - we have a complex business and we architect MI to bring to light how we perform end-to-end showing what are the key drivers of work and where bottlenecks exist in the system.
• Innovation and collaboration - as well as making sure we create the best MI today we are looking forward to tomorrow to look at new ways to automate our reporting and embed AI as a way to help our stakeholders identify where their focus should be

We’re hiring world class change leaders. Each role that we are hiring plays their own part in our mission; our role is to become the best in class energy provider, creating effortless customer experience built on trust and getting things right, first time. We do this through finding and working on the problems that matter most to our customers and employees. 

 

This role in a nutshell:

As a Data Governance and Standards Lead, you’ll sit at the intersection of technical and strategic - enabling the frameworks that allow Operations to treat data as a strategic asset, ensuring it is discoverable, high-quality, and compliant with all internal standards. You will lead in driving data maturity—modernising our technical standards across our data toolstack while embedding a culture of ownership and excellence across our insight delivery.

 

Your key outcomes will be:

1. Data Maturity and Strategy

• Drive Data Maturity: Manage and evolve the frameworks that measure and improve data maturity across the team—prioritising cost efficiency, robust security controls, and AI readiness
• Architect Data Flows: Define how Operations collects, stores, and shares data between our analytical tools ensuring compliance with internal policies
• Incident Management and Resilience: Lead the post-incident process; ensuring leadership understands root causes, overseeing remediation, and embedding learnings across the wider team to prevent recurrence.

2. Technical Governance & Tooling

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