Data Governance Manager, Policy Expert
£70-110k
2+ days a week in office
Digital home & car insurance provider
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Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£70-110k
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- An experienced Data Governance professional with proven expertise in developing and implementing modern, scalable data governance frameworks, ideally in cloud environments (preferably GCP)
- Knowledgeable about current trends in data governance, including metadata-driven governance, AI governance implications, and industry best practices
- Skilled in collaborating with technical and business stakeholders to clearly define data domains, ownership structures, and stewardship processes
- Experienced in leveraging modern data cataloguing and governance tools such as GCP Dataplex or OpenMetadata to ensure comprehensive data discoverability and lineage
- Adept at enforcing non-invasive governance policies seamlessly within data platforms, supporting effective compliance and risk management
- Familiar with insurance or similarly regulated industries, understanding the implications of regulatory requirements on data governance
- Strong communicator and influencer, capable of fostering a culture of data accountability and stewardship across diverse teams and senior stakeholders
- Forward-thinking, continually seeking opportunities to innovate and enhance data governance practices to support evolving analytics and AI initiatives
What the job involves
- The Data Management team is responsible for ensuring our data is reliable (documented, understood and trusted) and compliant (secure and effectively governed), and the organisation is empowered with a culture of data-driven decision-making
- Working alongside the Enterprise Data Architect and the Data Protection Manager, the team sets data management standards, and policies, and implements modern, scalable data governance frameworks and tooling that support our ambitious analytics and AI roadmap
- Develop, own, and implement a modern, integrated data governance strategy that supports our analytics and AI ambitions, aligning closely with our Data Strategy and governance framework
- Define data domains collaboratively with the Enterprise Data Architect, enabling clear data ownership and stewardship responsibilities across the organisation
- Establish, communicate, and enforce data governance policies, ensuring they are scalable, cost-efficient, and metadata-driven
- Co-ordinate the resolution of data governance issues efficiently and sustainably, promoting a culture of accountability and proactive data management
- Drive data democratisation by empowering business users to access and leverage data in a compliant and responsible manner
- Facilitate data literacy and stewardship across Policy Expert, helping colleagues understand and confidently engage with data governance principles and practices
- Establish clear data lineage, discoverability, and compliance standards and policies, and ensure comprehensive documentation and metadata management via modern tools (e.g. GCP Dataplex, OpenMetadata, SQLMesh)
- Scale the team with Data Governance Analysts when appropriate
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1M home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Now, with Cinven acquiring a majority shareholder, Policy Expert is in a great position to further accelerate its growth and expand even further in the years to come.
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Intelligent people
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Company values
- We act with Expertise
- We work as a Team
- We care about People
- We stick to our Principles
- We get things done
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Adam Powell
(Co-Founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
Steve Hardy
(CEO)Previously a Non Executive Director at Roojai, QMetric Group, C-Quence.
People progressing
Paul started as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis and in 2025 further promoted to Senior Product Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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