Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year
Requirements: - SC Clearance - active or lapsed.
- Proven experience in data governance or data management.
- Strong knowledge of data quality, metadata, lineage, cataloguing and stewardship.
- Experience developing governance policies, standards and operating models.
- Practical experience with AI governance, AI assurance or responsible AI.
- Understanding of AI/model testing, evaluation and risk assessment.
- Strong consulting, stakeholder management and communication skills.
- UK Central Government, Defence or regulated-sector experience.
- Defence, maritime, hydrographic, sonar, underwater mapping or oil & gas experience.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview, Azure ML, Databricks, MLflow or Microsoft Fabric.
- Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK, NIST AI RMF, ISO 23894, ISO 27001 or UK GDPR.
- MLOps, model monitoring or AI risk/control experience.
Responsibilities: - Deliver data governance policies, standards, RACI and stewardship models.
- Develop data quality frameworks, scorecards and remediation processes.
- Support metadata, data cataloguing, business glossaries, lineage and classification.
- Contribute to AI assurance covering training data, model selection, testing, evaluation and monitoring.
- Produce governance frameworks, operating procedures, evaluation plans, risk assessments and assurance reports.
- Run stakeholder workshops and translate requirements into practical solutions.
- Support assurance reviews, audits and quality gates.
- Work with data architects, engineers and security teams across client engagements.
- Contribute to proposals, pre-sales and knowledge-sharing activities.
Technologies: - AI
- Azure
- Databricks
- Fabric
- Support
- MLflow
- MLOps
- Security
- Sonar
- Cloud
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Meritus is recruiting for a Data Governance & AI Consultant to join a leading organisation delivering complex UK Central Government and Defence programmes. This hybrid role is based in Bristol with two days per week on-site, offering a salary of up to £80,000, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and private medical insurance. It is a great opportunity to work on major Government and Defence projects helping clients deliver trusted, secure and responsible AI.
last updated 39 week of 2026