Senior Manager Data Quality and Governance

This is a senior, enterprise-shaping leadership role at a pivotal point in Yorkshire Building Society’s Data and AI journey.

At Yorkshire Building Society, our purpose is rooted in mutualitymaking a positive difference for members, colleagues and communities. Data quality and governance are fundamental to delivering on that purpose. They ensure the data underpinning our decisions is trusted, controlled and used responsibly, enabling fair outcomes, organisational resilience and long-term financial wellbeing.

We’ve invested strongly in modern data platforms and capabilities. Now, the focus is on accelerating our journeyembedding modernised practices and proportionate risk management that protect the Society without constraining the business and actively unlock value.

About the role

As Senior Manager Data Quality & Governance, you will lead this agenda across the enterpriseshaping standards, ownership and controls that strengthen trust in data while enabling pace, innovation and impact.

You will lead the development and evolution of enterprise-wide data governance, quality standards and risk control frameworks, ensuring responsible, ethical and compliant use of data.

A key strategic shift is our focus on Critical Dataprioritising the data that underpins our most important decisions, regulatory obligations and member outcomes. You will own and embed this approach, making it the foundation of how data quality, ownership and control are managed.

Highly collaborative in nature, you will work closely with senior leaders and executives to embed clear, practical data ownership and stewardship aligned to how the business operates.

You will establish clear, proportionate guardrails aligned to YBS’s risk appetite and regulatory expectationsembedding controls into delivery and business processes by design, rather than as retrospective assurance.

As a trusted advisor across business, technology and risk, you will help teams navigate data quality, compliance and ethical considerations in a pragmatic, outcome-focused way.

You will lead horizon scanning across regulatory developments and AI-related risk, translating emerging requirements into clear, enterprise-wide standards that are proportionate and aligned to a mutual organisation.

You will also play a key role in data risk governance, incident management and escalation, working closely with Privacy, Information Security and Risk teams.

About you

You’re a senior leader with strong judgement, credibility and a pragmatic approach to risk and regulation. You’ll bring:

• Significant experience in data quality, governance or risk within a regulated environment

• Deep understanding of data regulation and enterprise risk frameworks

• Experience embedding data ownership and accountability with senior leaders

• Ability to translate complex regulatory and technical concepts into clear business outcomes

• Strong leadership capability, with experience building and coaching high-performing teams

• Confidence operating with executive stakeholders across an organisation

In Short

If you’re motivated by building trust in data, leading proportionate governance, and enabling responsible decision-making at enterprise scale, this role offers real scope, influence and the opportunity to make a meaningful difference.