Methods
Domain Expert - Data Governance, Stewardship & Information Management
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Domain Expert - Data Governance, Stewardship & Information Management
About Methods
Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.
Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses — with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods, we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.
Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.
Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.ieten is a global engineering firm with approximately 57,000 employees specialising in engineering and IT services.
Domain Expert Role Overview
Location: UK-based, hybrid working
Regular travel may be required to client sites, Methods offices and practice/community events.
Salary: £80,000–£120,000 base salary, plus bonus
Domain Expert — Data Governance, Stewardship & Information Management
Role Summary
The Data Governance, Stewardship & Information Management Specialist helps clients create the data foundations required for trusted analytics, AI, reporting, interoperability, operational decision-making, and regulatory confidence.
This role is for someone who can help large, complex organisations make their data:
- Usable
- Governed
- Secure
- Discoverable
- High-quality
- Accountable
It is particularly relevant in sectors where data is fragmented across legacy systems, suppliers, operational silos, secure environments or regulated business processes.
Your specialisms should cover:
- Data governance
- Master data management strategy
- Data quality
- Data ownership
- Metadata
- Information management
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- The data-control aspects of AI readiness
Methods is appointing seven Domain Experts, each matched to a core strategic offering:
- Client-Side Transformation Partner
- User-Centred Design & Delivery
- Cloud Transformation & Modernisation
- Data Intelligence & Applied AI
- IT Operations & Service Excellence
- Enterprise Platform Adoption & Value Realisation
- Cyber Resilience
These experts will be the thought leaders and subject-matter authorities for their domains, shaping propositions, guiding client delivery, and strengthening Methods' position in the market.
Responsibilities
- Lead data governance, stewardship & information management engagements for public-sector and regulated-industry clients
- Define enterprise, domain or programme-level data governance operating models, including:
- Decision rights
- Governance forums
- Data ownership
- Stewardship roles
- Escalation routes & accountability
- Develop data policies, standards, and controls covering:
- Data quality
- Metadata
- Lineage
- Cataloguing
- Access, sharing, retention
- Classification
- Acceptable use
- Lifecycle management
- Shape master data management and reference data strategies, including:
- Golden source principles
- Matching & survivorship
- Stewardship
- Integration & ownership
- Assess & improve data quality, including:
- Quality dimensions
- Issue management
- Root-cause analysis
- Remediation plans
- Quality dashboards
- Accountability mechanisms
- Support clients in data sharing, interoperability & data access models across departments, business units, suppliers, regulators, or operational partners
- Advise on:
- Information governance
- Privacy
- DLP
- Secure data access (in partnership with cyber, architecture, legal, DPO and SIRO stakeholders)
- Help clients make data assets AI-ready by improving:
- Documentation
- Data quality
- Stewardship
- Access controls
- Governance & reuse
- Shape implementation roadmaps for:
- Catalogues
- Data quality tooling
- MDM platforms
- Metadata management
- Governance workflows
- Stewardship communities
- Support sales and bid teams in shaping:
- Data governance, data quality, MDM, information management & AI-readiness propositions
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Requirements
Essential Experience
- 8+ years' experience in:
- Data governance
- Information management
- Data quality
- Master data management
- Metadata management
- Data strategy
- Information governance
- Related consulting/advisory work
- Evidence of measurable impact, such as:
- Improved data quality
- Reduced reporting risk
- Better regulatory compliance
- Improved data sharing
- Successful data platform adoption
- Stronger data ownership
- Improved decision-making
- Experience acting as a trusted advisor to:
- Senior data, technology, risk, compliance, operational or transformation stakeholders
- Experience in:
- Consulting
- Public sector
- Regulated industries
- Large, complex organisations
- Strong understanding of:
- Data governance operating models
- Stewardship models
- Data ownership and governance implementation
- Experience developing:
- Policies
- Standards
- Frameworks
- Roadmaps
- Maturity assessments
- Governance packs
- Data management playbooks
- Experience with:
- Master data, reference data
- Metadata
- Data catalogues
- Data lineage
- Data quality
- DLP
- Access controls
- Information governance
- Experience with sales and bid teams in shaping:
- Data governance
- Data management
- AI-readiness propositions
- Experience contributing to:
- Communities of practice
- Training material
- Professional development
- Mentoring
- Experience in highly regulated environments, particularly where:
- Data quality
- Traceability
- Security
- Compliance
- Auditability matter
Specialist Competencies
- Data governance operating model design
- Data stewardship and ownership models
- Master data management strategy
- Data quality assessment and remediation
- Metadata, lineage & catalogue strategy
- Data policy and standards development
- Information governance & secure data access
- Data sharing & interoperability
- AI-readiness assessment for data assets
- Governance implementation & behavioural adoption
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Sector Experience We Value
- Public-sector data governance, information management, data sharing or reporting programmes
- Energy, utilities or critical national infrastructure data environments
- Defence primes, aerospace, aviation, space, secure engineering or complex supply-chain data environments
- Financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecoms, or other high-regulated, data-intensive sectors
- Organisations with:
- Large legacy estates
- Fragmented data ownership
- Complex supplier ecosystems
- High audit/regulatory scrutiny
Desirable Experience
- Knowledge of:
- DAMA-DMBOK
- DCAM
- EDM Council
- ISO 8000
- ISO 27001
- ISO 15489 (and equivalent data/information management frameworks)
- Experience with platforms such as:
- Microsoft Purview
- Collibra
- Informatica
- Ataccama
- Alation
- Azure, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric
- Experience working with:
- DPOs
- SIROs
- CISOs
- Enterprise architects
- Data platform teams
- Business data owners
- Experience with:
- GDPR
- Data Protection Act 2018
- Freedom of Information
- Records management
- Data sharing agreements
- Sector-specific data obligations
- Experience in building:
- A data governance function
- A data office
- A stewardship network
- Data management communities
Security Considerations
This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process, candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Details of the evidence required can be found on the Gov.UK website.
If you are unable to meet Baseline Personnel Security Standard and associated criteria, your employment may be delayed or rejected. Details of this will be discussed at the interview stage.
Benefits
By joining Methods, you can expect:
- Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
- Being part of exciting project work that makes a difference in society
- Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
- A supportive and collaborative environment
Additionally, we offer:
- Development access to LinkedIn Learning
- A management development program & training
- Wellness: 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
- Socials: Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays, and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month
- Commitment to charitable causes
- 25 days annual leave
- Pension: Salary Exchange Scheme with:
- 4% employer contribution
- 5% employee contribution
- Life Assurance of 4x base salary
- Private Medical Insurance (non-contributory, covers spouse and dependants)
- Worldwide Travel Insurance (non-contributory, covers spouse and dependants)
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