Data Governance Lead

What is the opportunity?

The Group Data & Analytics Office plays a pivotal role in powering our Strategic Pillars and living our Group values. We enable the Bank's transformation by building trust in our data, empowering better decisions, and supporting sustainable growth in an increasingly digital world.

At the heart of this mission is the Data Governance Lead a role dedicated to elevating how we manage, protect, and use data across the organisation. This position drives the maturity of our data governance practices, ensuring they are consistently applied and continuously improved.

The role champions alignment with Group policies, regulatory expectations, and strategic priorities, while fostering a culture where accountability, stewardship, and responsible data use are embedded into everyday decision making.

In this role, you will:

• Own the Data Governance framework, ensuring consistent adoption of the Data Risk Policy, alignment with Group strategy, and strong data ownership and stewardship across the lifecycle.
• Oversee and implement technical data standards, driving consistency, quality, compliance, and ethical data use across platforms and domains.
• Monitor divisional compliance with the Data Risk Policy, identify gaps, coordinate remediation, and maintain structured documentation of governance activities and metrics.
• Strengthen and support divisional data forums and the transition to specialized models to enable collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology partners, embedding governance controls into data products and processes while aligning with regulatory, operational, and strategic needs.
• Lead assurance activities, including regular controls testing and assessments of data management practices.

What will make you stand out?

• Confirmed experience in data product management, governance, or analytics within Financial Services or other regulated environments.
• Strong grasp of customer data domains, including quality, lineage, and privacy, with the ability to translate complex concepts into business value.
• Effective leader of multi disciplinary teams, skilled at prioritising initiatives and aligning them with strategic objectives.
• Confident engaging senior leadership and partners, fostering collaboration and shared direction.
• Structured problem solver able to lead challenging priorities and deliver in fast paced settings.

Essential Qualifications

Third level qualification in relevant field

More about the team

The strategic objective of the GDAO is to build the components to support quality data and analytics to drive an understanding of the customer to create tailored experiences, driving personalised insights and fostering loyalty and competitive advantage as well as developing data maturity in the Group across all key areas of Governance, Infrastructure, Analytics & Value Realisation.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily in Dublin. We typically ask colleagues to spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person to support teamwork and connection. Specific arrangements will be confirmed by your recruiter to ensure they meet the needs of the role and team.

Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Key Competencies

• Customer Focused - Leader
• Better together - Leader
• Be Decisive - Leader
• Take Ownership - Leader
• Manage Risk - Leader

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.