Data Governance Analyst
| Posting date: | 26 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40,000 to £45,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 March 2026 |
| Location: | Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU |
| Company: | Nest Corporation |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 59300393 |
Summary
Role Overview
We are looking for a Data Governance Analyst, in this role you will understand data warehousing, data governance, and data quality management principles. With the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, working to influence data governance practice and strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience supporting product delivery and project management. Experience establishing processes for identifying, logging, and reporting data issues and risks. Strong documentation skills, including maintaining and reviewing policies and processes. You will show ability to support data governance and data quality initiatives, including KPI definition and monitoring.
The minimum criteria for this role are:
- Minimum of 2 years of experience working in Data Governance (or equivalent)
- Minimum of 2 years of experience driving Data Quality initiatives (or equivalent)
- Minimum of 2 years of experience working in an Agile environment (or equivalent)
- Past experience of creating and owning Data Governance related documentation
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 and offer a generous training budget.
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
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
Directorate/Department Overview
Nest is undergoing a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making. The Data, Analytics & Customer Insight (DACI) Team 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 department includes:
- Data – planning and delivering how we manage high quality data as an enterprise, making it easy for BI, analysis and modelling to happen and be automated
- Analytics – taking data and creating value for the organisation, understanding our customer and our business; doing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive behavioural analysis and modelling to help Nest make decisions.
- Customer insight – putting our customers at the heart, understanding their needs through empathy, research, surveys, and digital insight
- Business Intelligence – delivering data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand.
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 careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
We are looking for a Data Governance Analyst, in this role you will understand data warehousing, data governance, and data quality management principles. With the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, working to influence data governance practice and strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience supporting product delivery and project management. Experience establishing processes for identifying, logging, and reporting data issues and risks. Strong documentation skills, including maintaining and reviewing policies and processes. You will show ability to support data governance and data quality initiatives, including KPI definition and monitoring.
The minimum criteria for this role are:
- Minimum of 2 years of experience working in Data Governance (or equivalent)
- Minimum of 2 years of experience driving Data Quality initiatives (or equivalent)
- Minimum of 2 years of experience working in an Agile environment (or equivalent)
- Past experience of creating and owning Data Governance related documentation
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 and offer a generous training budget.
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
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
Directorate/Department Overview
Nest is undergoing a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making. The Data, Analytics & Customer Insight (DACI) Team 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 department includes:
- Data – planning and delivering how we manage high quality data as an enterprise, making it easy for BI, analysis and modelling to happen and be automated
- Analytics – taking data and creating value for the organisation, understanding our customer and our business; doing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive behavioural analysis and modelling to help Nest make decisions.
- Customer insight – putting our customers at the heart, understanding their needs through empathy, research, surveys, and digital insight
- Business Intelligence – delivering data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand.
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 careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.