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Head of Data, Professional Services
£57,000 - 97,000
Carrington Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Station Road, London
£57,000 - 97,000
Requirements
Must:
- Senior data leadership experience within a legal or comparable professional services environment
- Confident working with Partners, senior stakeholders, and C-suite leaders
- Proven ability to deliver complex change across governance, quality, integration, and data programmes
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics clearly and practically
- Solid commercial judgement and a delivery-focused mindset
- Experience building data culture, continuous improvement, and governance frameworks
- Understanding of modern data platforms, architectures, and approaches
- Experience with automation or artificial intelligence programmes is an advantage
- Data protection qualifications such as CIPP/E or CIPM are helpful but not essential
- Comfortable handling complexity, managing competing priorities, and standing your ground when needed
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, implementation, and long-term embedding of the firms data strategy
- Turn data into a strategic business asset rather than a back-office function
- Build and run data governance, chair the Data Council, and attend key risk committees
- Drive data quality, integration, accuracy, and consistency across global systems
- Oversee data restructuring, cleansing, and preparation for better reporting and insight
- Deliver and embed policies across retention, usage, classification, and compliance
- Support automation and artificial intelligence initiatives by building the right foundations
- Implement a data platform such as Microsoft Fabric as the firms single source of truth
- Lead initial programmes including new knowledge management and records management systems
- Influence senior stakeholders across multiple regions and build firm-wide understanding of the value of data
- Work closely with Risk and Compliance to manage data risk globally
- Shape and support long-term technology strategy alongside the Chief Technology Officer
Description
We are a Professional Services firm based in the City of London, and we are seeking a Head of Data / CDO to join our team. This hybrid role involves working from the office approximately three days a week. In this senior leadership position, you will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer and have full ownership of our data agenda, delivering meaningful change across the organization. This is a major appointment and a great opportunity to take ownership of a global data agenda and build something impactful.
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