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William Alexander Recruitment

Data Governance Lead/Manager - InsurTech - MDM/RDM/Metadata Management

On site

London, United kingdom

£ 120,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

20-01-2026

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Skills

Data Governance Recruitment

Job Specifications

An exciting opportunity has arisen within a market leading technology firm who service the insurance sector. This Data Governance Lead/Data Governance Manager role is a new position which has been created in order to enable the organisation to continue their journey moving away from Legacy technology and towards a single-source-of-truth data model.

The Data Governance Lead/Data Governance Manager will initially be responsible for managing two members of the data team and will be pivotal in leading and embedding data governance practices, with particular focus on Master Data Management (MDM), Reference Data Management (RDM), Metadata management and Data lineage.

There is no requirement to work in the office as the role can be fully remote.

We are looking for someone who:

Has proven experience in a Data Governance Lead or Manager role
Has previous responsibility for MDM, RDM, metadata management and data lineage within a previous role
Has worked within the insurance sector previously
Ideally has some experience or knowledge of Actuarial or Claims departments
Has previous experience building data definitions and business glossaries
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William Alexander Diversity & Inclusion Policy actively promotes the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its dealings with employees, workers, job applicants, clients, customers, suppliers, contractors, and the public.

We fully feel an inclusive work culture where people of different backgrounds are valued equally will ensure better outcomes for us all, and we approach recruitment for our clients with the same perspective and qualities.

About the Company

William Alexander is a specialist technology and change recruitment agency, working in the London insurance and financial services markets. IT and transformation programmes tend to need a blend of highly skilled contractors and permanent staff, so we specialise in both. We were founded in 2010 by Will and Alex (do you see what they did there?) who still lead the business today. They had worked together in another recruitment consultancy and wanted to strike out on their own, believing they could offer a superior service to... Know more