Data Manager - Data Quality & Governance (6 month contract)

Data Manager - Data Quality & Governance (6 month contract)
Location: Manchester
Dates: 6 months (37.5 hrs/week)

*Urgent 6 Month Contract*

This is a *Manchester* based role with an excellent immediate start within a Global Technology Client that is working to *collaborate with teams to improve product workflows and user experience*

Why it matters
Help the Cars team turn raw data into reliable insights, ensuring the information that drives decisions is clean, consistent and compliant.

What you'll do

• Run automated data quality checks and fix issues quickly.
• Build reports and tools to spot problems and show impact to stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into data engineer and analyst tasks.
• Improve data flow, modelling and documentation (dictionaries, glossaries, lineage).
• Keep data practices aligned with regulations, audits and internal policies.
• Advise on standards (MDM, data modelling) and help teams adopt them.
• Create training and simple guides to boost data literacy across the business.

Must have skills

• 1-3years in data quality, governance or similar roles.
• Good SQL and Python (or comparable) for analysis.
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI.
• Understanding of data governance life cycle and MDM concepts.
• Familiar with ETL processes and data modelling.
• Strong stakeholder communication and agile task management.

Nice to have

• Formal qualification in data or business analysis.
• Exposure to AI assistants or governance tools (eg, Collibra).
• Background in analytics (finance, marketing, sales) or data engineering.

Key traits
Critical thinking, ethical data handling, ability to work independently on data quality initiatives, and clear communication for both technical and non technical audiences.

Please send your CV or call Toni to discuss further.
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