Senior Data & AI Governance Consultant
hace 1 día
Wakefield
Senior Data & AI Governance Consultant Permanent Location: Home Based - with travel to client sites Salary: £90,000 - £95,000 (+ benefits) Skills: Data Governance, AI Assurance, Metadata Management, SC Clearance We are looking to recruit a Senior Data & AI Governance Consultant for a leading IT & Data Consultancy. You will help clients build robust data governance foundations and adopt responsible AI. You will create practical artefacts-policies, standards, operating models, and evaluation frameworks-that improve data quality, model reliability, risk posture, and compliance. This is a hybrid role and although primarily home based you will be required to work on customer site when required What you'll do • Deliver data governance workstreams, including policies, stewardship models, RACI, data quality monitoring and remediation., • Implement metadata and cataloguing: business glossaries, lineage, classification, and sensitivity labels., • Contribute to AI assurance across the lifecycle, including training data preparation, model selection support, evaluation and monitoring, and operational governance., • Produce clear artefacts: governance frameworks, procedures, evaluation plans, risk assessments, and assurance reports., • Run stakeholder workshops, capture requirements, and translate into actionable designs., • Support benefits tracking (e.g., data quality uplift, lineage coverage, model performance, incident reduction)., • Work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams and mentor junior consultants. What you'll bring • Proven experience in data governance delivery: policies, stewardship, data quality, metadata, privacy, and protection., • Practical understanding of AI assurance: data preparation, model selection, evaluation, monitoring, and lifecycle governance., • Strong consulting skills: problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder communication., • Ability to work under broad direction and lead workstreams independently., • Active SC clearance and willingness to travel to UK client sites. Desirable: Experience in UK Central Government, Defence, or other regulated environments; familiarity with AI and data frameworks (DAMA-DMBOK, NIST AI RMF, ISO 23894, ISO 27001, GDPR/DPA 2018); hands-on with platforms such as Microsoft Purview, Azure ML, Databricks, Power BI, Collibra, or Alation; exposure to MLOps practices.