Head of Data Management

Job description / Role

As the Head of Data Management, you will be responsible for designing, developing, implementing end to end data governance frameworks whilst ensuring adherence to policies and standards across the organisation; developing strategies to improve the overall quality of protection of sensitive assets and data.

Client Details

Good organisation with an international selection of top professionals experience interesting growth.

Description

* Develop, implement and maintain organisation wide data governance/data protection policies, standards and procedures.
* Identify privacy and data security risks and develop, initiate action plans to mitigate them.
* Identify and set organisation standards for good data whilst ensuring that all data sources meet or exceed these set requirements.
* Investigate data Governance incidents and initiate follow up actions such as root cause analysis, incident management methods etc. to prevent a repeat of such occurrences.
* Manage processes for data management within core data platforms, including data governance workflows.
* Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that they are well supported and informed of their data responsibilities.
* Ensure required data is available and accessible with in timescales.
* Contribute to the evaluation of alternative business processes and software to improve the data governance from a quality prospective.

Job Offer

* Attractive tax-free salary
* Fast-moving transformation environment
* Exciting opportunity to work with the latest technology

Requirements

* At least 10 years of experience in a data governance role.
* Prior experience of implementing organisation-wide data governance frame works and data infrastructures
* Experience and knowledge of Data Quality, Data Security, Data Governance & Data classification models.
* Knowledge of regulatory requirements pertaining to data governance within the GCC.
* Prior experience with Data Governance tools like Collibra.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.