Data Governance and Standards Lead

Job Description

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Team: Performance and Insight

Salary banding: £55,000 - £65,000

Experience: 1-3 years in similar role, with broad experience of team working and cross functional engagement

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Joanna Hemingway, Senior Analytics Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Architect, Champion, Standards

Top 3 qualities for this role: Supporting, improving, proactive

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

• The Performance and Insight team exists to provide greater understanding of our operational performance, improve the accuracy and accessibility of data, and adapt quickly to our changing operational and technical environment. We handle complex and challenging issues and projects, embed a culture of continuous improvement, and enable the business’ strategic transformation.
• Through great Data Governance -we make it easier to find and understand our performance data by implementing great data governance ensuring that data is managed systematically so it can be used efficiently, securely, and is accessible to those who need it.
• Easier to understand performance data - we create simple to understand MI against a set of visual standards, we work with each part of our business to educate our teams on how to spend the least amount of time finding the data vs investing their time in making the right decisions based on what the data tell us
• Understanding the work - we have a complex business and we architect MI to bring to light how we perform end-to-end showing what are the key drivers of work and where bottlenecks exist in the system.
• Innovation and collaboration - as well as making sure we create the best MI today we are looking forward to tomorrow to look at new ways to automate our reporting and embed AI as a way to help our stakeholders identify where their focus should be

We’re hiring world class change leaders. Each role that we are hiring plays their own part in our mission; our role is to become the best in class energy provider, creating effortless customer experience built on trust and getting things right, first time. We do this through finding and working on the problems that matter most to our customers and employees.

This role in a nutshell:

As a Data Governance and Standards Lead, you’ll sit at the intersection of technical and strategic - enabling the frameworks that allow Operations to treat data as a strategic asset, ensuring it is discoverable, high-quality, and compliant with all internal standards. You will lead in driving data maturity—modernising our technical standards across our data toolstack while embedding a culture of ownership and excellence across our insight delivery.

Your key outcomes will be:

1. Data Maturity and Strategy

• Drive Data Maturity: Manage and evolve the frameworks that measure and improve data maturity across the team—prioritising cost efficiency, robust security controls, and AI readiness
• Architect Data Flows: Define how Operations collects, stores, and shares data between our analytical tools ensuring compliance with internal policies
• Incident Management and Resilience: Lead the post-incident process; ensuring leadership understands root causes, overseeing remediation, and embedding learnings across the wider team to prevent recurrence.

2. Technical Governance & Tooling

• Platform Advocacy: Act as the champion and subject matter expert for our Data Catalogue and Data Quality tooling, driving adoption across the department.
• Metric Governance: Establish a metric governance framework; ensuring key Operational metrics have a business owner, definition, and technical logic documented..
• Technical Standards: Partner with technical experts to define best practices across GitHub, Dataform and GCP, ensuring code quality and standards are met

3. Culture & Advocacy

• Analytics Community: Actively engage with the wider analytics, data science and product community across OVO to align best practices
• Knowledge Management: Ensure process and technical knowledge is well-documented and easily accessible by analysts and business users.
• Iterative Change Management: Lead the rollout of data evolution using an agile approach—delivering high-impact changes through rapid iterations that refine based on business needs.

You’ll be a successful Data Governance and Standards Lead here at OVO if you…

• Are an internal champion for data maturity: You have the ability to translate data governance and process into tangible business value, winning hearts and minds to ensure that data maturity becomes embedded into delivery.
• Possess a "Customer-First" mindset: You are deeply passionate about getting the data right because you know it impacts our customers. You don't wait for problems to arise—you proactively hunt for opportunities to improve, ensuring solutions are resilient and built to scale.
• Pragmatic when it comes to governance: You are equally comfortable mentoring a team of analysts on data standards as you are collaborating with enterprise-wide stakeholders to align disparate datasets into a single, trusted source of truth that reduces risk and cost.
• Deliver through iteration: You are comfortable building and rolling out processes in an agile way—starting with an MVP, gathering feedback, and rapidly iterating to ensure our data frameworks stay relevant to the business’s evolving needs.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £55,000 and £60,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..