Hybrid Data Governance Manager

at OakNorth

• Job title: Data Governance Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bengaluru, India

About the role

• Data Governance Manager managing data governance standards across a multi-jurisdiction banking operation at OakNorth. Focused on reducing data-related risks and implementing classification frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own and enforce data governance standards across the Bank — setting clear requirements for data ownership, documentation completeness, classification, and quality, and holding domain owners accountable to them
• Drive remediation of data-related audit findings and risk log items — take ownership of open actions, coordinate with business and technology stakeholders to resolve them, and track progress to closure
• Implement and maintain the data classification framework — ensuring all critical data is classified by sensitivity, value, and criticality, and that protection controls are applied consistently and correctly
• Build and operate governance metrics — establish a clear picture of data risk maturity across the organisation, including quality scores, ownership coverage, classification completeness, and audit trail integrity
• Embed data stewardship across business domains — work with data owners in Lending, Finance, Business Banking, and Personal Savings to ensure accountability for data quality is understood and acted on at the domain level
• Maintain the business glossary and data definitions — ensuring canonical definitions are agreed, documented, and kept current, so that data used in reporting and decision-making is consistent and understood
• Use tooling (including DataHub) to operationalise governance — configure and monitor automated governance checks, PII and sensitivity tagging, and lineage visibility to scale enforcement beyond manual review
• Work with the DPO to ensure our organisational controls are robust enough to comply with Data Privacy regulation.

Requirements

• Experience building & implementing data governance framework from the ground up in a regulated financial services environment
• Strong working knowledge of data classification, data quality management, and risk-based approaches to data governance
• Experience working with internal audit or second/third line functions to manage and remediate findings
• Ability to influence without authority — you will work across business units where you have accountability but not direct control
• Clear, confident communicator who can translate governance requirements into practical actions for non-technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with data governance tooling (catalogues, lineage, metadata management) — you will use tools to scale your work, not rely on manual processes
• Working knowledge of UK GDPR and the storage limitation principle, and how data protection obligations intersect with governance and classification frameworks

Benefits

• Equity. We want people to have a stake in the business so that all our interests are aligned.
• Health Insurance for employee and dependents.
• Wellbeing and social events
• Support causes that matter to you – Volunteering time off