Data Governance Manager
Exscientia, United Kingdom
Job Description
Exscientia is an AI-driven pharmatech company committed to discovering, designing and developing the best possible drugs in the fastest and most effective manner. Exscientia developed the first-ever functional precision oncology platform to successfully guide treatment selection and improve patient outcomes in a prospective interventional clinical study, as well as to progress AI-designed small molecules into the clinical setting. Our pipeline demonstrates our ability to rapidly translate scientific concepts into precision-designed therapeutic candidates, with more than 25 projects underway. By designing better drugs, faster, we believe the best ideas of science can rapidly become the best medicines for patients.
As the Data Governance Manager you will lead and manage business wide data governance activities, focusing on ensuring adherence to a data governance framework for data policies, standards and practices to achieve the required levels of quality; and serving as a point of escalation for governance, data quality and protection issues. The Data Governance Manager works closely with business and functional leadership to improve the quality and value of core data assets, respond to regulatory and contractual requirements and support the differing requirements of the business to ensure data is being responsibly managed and protected.
At Exscientia we understand the benefit of flexible working which is why this role can be based in any of our offices in Oxford, Dundee or Cambridge. Speak with our talent team to learn more about how we encourage flexibility and work life balance.
As the Data Governance Manager you will be responsible for:
- Designing and delivering a business wide data governance framework, programme and implementation roadmap for how the company can best govern and manage its data assets. To include, but is not limited to:
- the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organisation behaviour, policies and standards;
- improvement of data quality; and
- Governance metrics, master data processes and related tools
- Building and maintaining a detailed audit of core systems and information assets that are held in these systems, as well as the teams, staff and processes that use them.
- Leading on establishing best practice and ownership of the business taxonomy and ontology, and develop rules for their use e.g. policies and procedures.
- Implementing a Data Risk Framework to effectively manage enterprise data risk and continually assess and identify data risks in line with the business risk management approach, ensuring they are mitigated and accounted for work within the data governance programme.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Data Governance operations, developing supporting tools/artefacts/capabilities required for effective Data Governance, e.g., responsibilities, policies, standards, processes, procedures, data quality management, KPI definition and reporting, metadata management (cataloguing, data lineage etc).
- Understanding of regulatory considerations for Data Governance in the medical, technical and pharmaceutical industries across a variety of data sources.
- Experience working within the information/records management discipline.
- Experience of using cloud based applications, for example Google Workspace, O365, Box, etc.
- Experience in developing and leading a data governance programme.
- Knowledge of data related government (UK, US and EU) regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues.
- Experience working in a multi-disciplined Agile and DevOps environment.
Benefits
- Work together to make a positive contribution to patients by revolutionising the pharmaceutical industry through AI-driven discovery.
- We will work with you to kick-start or further grow your career from funding for professional development and conference attendance, to the opportunity to acquire valuable skills, work on problems that matter, and learn from world-class technology and scientific leaders.
- Opportunity to join an inclusive, collaborative and intellectually stimulating culture
- We will work with you to provide a highly competitive compensation as we continue to grow and thrive.
- Our team’s health and well-being is important to us - we offer a generous holiday allowance, provide flexible working and remote working to encourage all of our team to manage their own work, time and life along with wellbeing and mindfulness support.
- When you are in the office, you will have access to a kitchen stocked with an endless supply of food for all employees along with access plenty of break out areas so you can get to know the people you are working with. Some of the best ideas start with a coffee break!