Spirax Group

Senior Data Governance Analyst

Spirax Group  •  Cheltenham, GB (Onsite)  •  5 hours ago
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Senior Data Governance Analyst

Senior Data Governance Analyst - Zenith

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Data Governance Analyst to support the successful delivery of a major business transformation programme. In this role, you will help embed data governance practices across the programme lifecycle, ensuring data is trusted, well-managed, and aligned with business objectives.

Working closely with business stakeholders and project teams, you will establish governance processes, define data ownership and accountability, support data quality initiatives, and help drive the adoption of governance standards across the organisation

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the implementation and ongoing operation of the Data Governance Framework throughout the programme lifecycle.
  • Establish and coordinate data governance structures, forums, and governance routines.
  • Work with stakeholders to identify and assign Data Owners, Data Stewards, and other governance roles.
  • Facilitate governance meetings, workshops, and working groups, ensuring actions are tracked and completed.
  • Support the definition and maintenance of Critical Data Elements (CDEs), business glossaries, data standards, and data dictionaries.
  • Document and communicate data ownership, accountability, and decision-making frameworks.
  • Collaborate with business teams to define data quality requirements, controls, and monitoring processes.
  • Work with stakeholders to identify, prioritise, and resolve data issues.
  • Monitor governance-related risks and ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
  • Produce governance dashboards, metrics, and status reports for key stakeholders.
  • Promote awareness of data governance through training, engagement, and communications activities.
  • Identify opportunities to improve governance processes and support the transition of governance activities into business-as-usual operations.

Your Skills:

  • Proven experience in Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Business Analysis, or Data Management roles.
  • Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, operating models, and accountability structures.
  • Experience facilitating workshops, governance forums, and stakeholder engagement sessions.
  • Knowledge of data ownership, stewardship, data standards, business glossaries, and metadata management.
  • Understanding of data quality management practices and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
  • Experience working on ERP, CRM, or enterprise transformation programmes.
  • Strong analytical, organisational, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Ability to influence stakeholders and drive adoption of governance practices.
  • Experience translating business requirements into measurable data quality controls and supporting root-cause analysis.
  • Practical experience using Excel, SQL, or reporting tools to analyse and communicate data quality results.

Desirable:

  • Experience supporting ERP implementations or data transformation programmes.
  • Experience with Dynamics 365, JD Edwards, or similar ERP platforms.
  • Knowledge of data governance tools, data catalogues, or data quality platforms.
  • Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) Associate qualification.

The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.

Spirax Group

About Spirax Group

Spirax Group is the new name for Spirax-Sarco Engineering.

We are a global thermal energy and fluid technology solutions Group, positioned to play a critical role in enabling the industrial transition to net zero, in support of our Purpose, to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders, as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world.

Our solutions improve the operating efficiency and safety of the critical industrial processes that sit behind the production of consumables used every day. Our recently launched new-to-world decarbonisation* solutions use proprietary technologies to electrify boilers, for the raising of steam, as well as the electrification of other critical industrial process heating applications.

Our Group comprises three world-leading Businesses:

Steam Thermal Solutions helps customers control and manage steam within their mission critical industrial applications, helping to put food safely on the world’s tables and keep our hospitals running.

Steam Thermal Solutions includes:

Spirax Sarco

Gestra

Electric Thermal Solutions has proprietary technologies that deliver electrification solutions at scale in industrial settings. We also deliver freeze protection and defrost solutions critical to aviation and space industries and ensure thermal uniformity in semiconductor chip manufacturing to power the critical electronic systems we rely on.

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is engineering vital fluid technology solutions that optimise the efficient use of resources and support advancements in global health, such as lifesaving vaccines and gene therapies.

Spirax Group is a FTSE 100 Company, headquartered in Cheltenham (UK). We have 37 strategically located manufacturing plants around the world, with 10,000 colleagues, operating in 66 countries and serving 110,000 customers globally.

* Eliminates Scopes 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions when connected to a green electricity source.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Cheltenham, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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