Group Head of Data Product Strategy & Governance

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Group Head of Data Product Strategy & Governance

SALARY: £116,535 - £170,000

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Manchester or London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

This role is responsible for defining and leading the Group’s data product governance, ensuring data safety, policy adherence, and robust producer–consumer operating models across the enterprise. It provides strategic, Group‑wide direction to embed governance‑by‑design, ensure compliance, set standards, and strengthen the lifecycle management of data products.

The role holder is also accountable for aligning the producer–consumer interaction model with the capabilities of the Group’s Data Marketplace, enabling colleagues across the organisation to easily discover, understand, and access high‑quality data products in a safe, governed, and user‑centred way.

In addition, this role drives the requirements that shape the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for the Data Marketplace, ensuring alignment with the Enterprise Data Platform, the Data Product Operating Model, metadata standards, and Group‑wide governance expectations.

Overall, this position plays a pivotal role in accelerating the adoption of data products and the accompanying governance framework, improving data discoverability, and strengthening trust in data across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Set the strategic direction for Producer–Consumer interaction, data product accountability, and governance‑by‑design across the organisation, including ownership of the Data Product Operating Model.

• Lead Group‑wide governance and data safety, ensuring compliance with policies, metadata standards and data lifecycle requirements across platforms and domains.

• Drive cross‑enterprise alignment by partnering with CDAO Data Management, Metadata, Contracts, and CTO teams to harmonise governance processes and lifecycle standards.

• Oversee end‑to‑end operational governance of data products, including Marketplace delivery, sprint planning, release readiness, user support, and integration with tooling such as data contracts and Marketplace capabilities.

• Engage and influence senior stakeholders, championing Marketplace adoption, leading demos and communications, and supporting domain teams in improving data product quality and governance adoption.

• Lead and develop a high‑performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence, and managing recruitment, resourcing and team development.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstrated track record in data, analytics, or data product environments. 

• Experience working with federated business units and cross‑organisational delivery models. 

• Background in data governance, metadata or data management (desirable). 

• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, product and analysis roles. 

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.