Data Governance & Enablement Manager

Data Governance & Enablement Manager

Role Purpose

The Data Governance & Enablement Manager is responsible for implementing and enabling data management policies and standards within DLA Piper. This role involves managing data as a strategic asset, ensuring it is discoverable, understood, trusted, secured, and available - in alignment with data management best practices.

The manager will be hands-on and responsible for the definition and execution of approaches to data ownership, metadata and lineage, data quality, reference data, and master data management, amongst others.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Implement comprehensive data management policies and standards to ensure data discovery, understanding, quality, and compliance with legal and ethical standards
• Establish a comprehensive data management operating model to embed data ownership roles, related processes, and technology
• Implement strategies and practices to classify data, protect data privacy, and implement lifecycle management in collaboration with the Office of General Counsel
• Set and monitor data quality standards, liaising with data owners on DQ remediation initiatives across the organization
• Oversee the management of business metadata to improve data usability and understanding
• Oversee the establishment of MDM and reference data strategies to ensure data consistency and accuracy.
• Continuously improve data management practices for efficiency and effectiveness

About you

• Deep experience implementing Data Ownership and Data Management Operating Models.
• Knowledge of metadata and data quality tools, databases, data warehousing, and data analysis techniques. Familiarity with SQL and data visualization
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify data quality issues and develop effective solutions
• Curiosity and eagerness to explore the new frontiers and opportunities for Data Management & Quality in the GenAI space, both as enabler and beneficiary (Data for GenAI & GenAI for Data)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with various stakeholders and promote data ownership and data quality best practices across the organization
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead projects from inception to completion
• In-depth understanding of data management principles and practices
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to communicate complex data concepts
• Ability to identify and address data-related challenges effectively
• Knowledge of legal and ethical considerations in data management, especially in the legal sector
• In-depth experience of data management tooling for managing metadata, data quality, and master data amongst others

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence, and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients, and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative, and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background, and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance, and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.