Data Governance Lead in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

Dependant on Experience

Permanent

Not Specified

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

17 Jul 2026

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Role Overview

Today, Nest is at an early stage of scaling data governance to meet growing regulatory and strategic demands. This role will design and embed an enterprise data governance capability that enables trusted data, regulatory compliance and data-driven decision-making across Nest.

The successful candidate will take the organisation from a relatively immature and fragmented data governance position to a structured, well-understood and actively adopted operating model with clear accountability, standards and measurable outcomes.

You will operate across two core data ecosystems, spanning Azure with Databricks and AWS with its native services, ensuring governance is consistent in principle while pragmatic in implementation.

A key aspect of the role will be engaging senior stakeholders across technology, data, risk, information security and the business to drive adoption, embed accountability and create genuine cultural change in how data is managed and valued.

This is a rare opportunity to define and embed data governance at enterprise scale within one of the UK’s largest pension schemes, with direct exposure to Executive-level priorities around risk, regulation and digital transformation.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

5 years of experience working in Data Governance roles
Previous experience of working in Data Governance in a financial institution
Demonstratable experience of improving the Data Governance maturity within an organisation

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential. At Nest, you’ll have access to a range of learning opportunities to learn, grow and build the skills you need to be successful in your role and career.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

Nest is undergoing a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making, and Data, Analytics and Customer Insight is leading how we do it: putting our customers at the heart of our work and helping colleagues to understand and use our data. Our work enables Nest to continually learn, improve how we work and create value so that we can deliver a better retirement for millions.

The directorate includes:

Business Intelligence – starting with the data at source, delivering actionable data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand
Customer insight – putting our customers at the heart of Nest – understanding their needs through qual and quant research, surveys, and digital insight
Data – planning and delivering how we manage quantity, quality, availability of key datasets as an enterprise, making it easy for BI, analysis and modelling operate and be automated
Data strategy – working on Nest’s data literacy, data governance, and a strategy for how we can all collaborate to make our data a really useful shared asset for Nest, underpinning our decisions
Analytics – taking all our data and creating value for the organisation – understanding our customers and our business, and doing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis and modelling to help Nest to make decisions

If you love data and insight, and you’d like to help us on this journey, come and join us.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: [email protected].

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