Data & AI Governance Specialist
Birmingham, GB, B4 6GA
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What you’ll work on
Full postingYou'll play a key role in helping BT strengthen its Data & AI Governance capabilities across the Group.
You'll help shape governance frameworks, influence decision-making through governance forums and Data Councils, and ensure governance controls are embedded across business and corporate units.
Act as main Data & AI governance contact for BT business units
Lead and coordinate Data & AI Governance Working Groups
Facilitate unit-level Data & AI Councils and governance forums
Prepare governance reports and executive briefings for senior stakeholders
Monitor governance maturity, control adoption and compliance metrics
From the employer’s posting
You'll play a key role in helping BT strengthen its Data & AI Governance capabilities across the Group. Working with senior stakeholders, you'll lead governance activities that improve data quality, accountability, compliance and AI governance maturity.
You'll help shape governance frameworks, influence decision-making through governance forums and Data Councils, and ensure governance controls are embedded across business and corporate units. This role requires someone who can operate confidently in a complex enterprise environment and demonstrate a track record of delivering governance outcomes rather than simply supporting them.
Act as the primary Data & AI Governance contact for BT business units
Lead and coordinate Data & AI Governance Working Groups across supported business areas.
Facilitate unit-level Data & AI Councils and governance forums.
Prepare governance reporting, risk updates, compliance summaries and executive briefings for senior stakeholders.
Monitor governance maturity, control adoption and compliance against agreed governance metrics.
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Job description
Job Req ID: 62481
Function: Data & AI
Location: Birmingham-Three Snowhill
About the role
You'll play a key role in helping BT strengthen its Data & AI Governance capabilities across the Group. Working with senior stakeholders, you'll lead governance activities that improve data quality, accountability, compliance and AI governance maturity.
You'll help shape governance frameworks, influence decision-making through governance forums and Data Councils, and ensure governance controls are embedded across business and corporate units. This role requires someone who can operate confidently in a complex enterprise environment and demonstrate a track record of delivering governance outcomes rather than simply supporting them.
What you’ll be doing
- Act as the primary Data & AI Governance contact for BT business units, supporting the adoption of governance policies, standards and frameworks.
- Partner with data owners, business stakeholders, engineering teams and compliance functions to embed governance controls and best practices.
- Lead and coordinate Data & AI Governance Working Groups across supported business areas.
- Facilitate unit-level Data & AI Councils and governance forums.
- Prepare governance reporting, risk updates, compliance summaries and executive briefings for senior stakeholders.
- Monitor governance maturity, control adoption and compliance against agreed governance metrics.
- Support implementation of governance controls including data ownership, metadata, classification, retention, quality and AI governance requirements.
- Help business units understand and meet obligations relating to data and AI governance regulations and policies.
- Support the development and delivery of governance awareness sessions, training and communications.
- Collaborate with central governance teams to ensure business requirements are reflected within enterprise governance frameworks.
- Track governance risks, issues and remediation activities while driving continuous improvement.
- Support governance decision-making through evidence-based reporting and analysis.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across BT Group.
- Contribute to the ongoing evolution of BT's Data & AI Governance operating model.
Essential Skills / Experience
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Proven experience leading and implementing Data Governance frameworks within a large enterprise organisation.
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Strong knowledge of Data Governance controls, including Data Ownership, Data Stewardship, Data Quality, Metadata and Data Lineage.
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Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leading Governance Forums, Data Councils or Working Groups to drive governance adoption and compliance.
Desirable Skills / Experience
- Experience working within Telecommunications, Technology, Financial Services or other highly regulated industries.
- Knowledge of AI Governance, Responsible AI principles and emerging AI regulatory requirements.
- Understanding of DORA, regulatory control frameworks or operational resilience requirements.
- Familiarity with BT's Key Control Framework (KCF).
- Experience supporting organisation-wide governance transformation initiatives.
- Knowledge of wholesale, Openreach or telecommunications regulatory obligations.
- Experience delivering governance training, awareness programmes or capability uplift initiatives.
- Understanding of data management tools, governance tooling or metadata platforms.
Important Information
- This role can be based in London, Birmingham or Bristol and follows BT's hybrid working model.
Our Package
- 10% on target annual bonus
- Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
- Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
- Equalised maternity, paternity and adoption leave: 18 weeks' full pay and 8 weeks' half pay
- Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
- Market-leading pension scheme: 5% from you and 10% from us
- Holiday purchase scheme
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