Programme Manager -Data Governance – London
Reference Code: 485462-en_GBContract Type:PermanentProfessional Communities: Data & AI
About the Job you are considering:
Capgemini is seeking Data Management Specialistwho can define strategy, operating models, and execution frameworks for enterprise data management across the end-to-end insurance value chain.
This is not a hands-on engineering role. Instead, the focus is on shaping the data agenda, defining target-state architectures, governance models, personas, and artefacts, and ensuring successful delivery of large-scale data programmes.
You will partner with business and technology leadership to establish data as a strategic asset, covering areas such as product master data, cataloguing, data quality, and governance frameworks across Policy, Claims, Underwriting, and Customer domains.
Hybrid Working
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home.
Your Role
Strategic Data Leadership
- Define and operationalize enterprise data management strategy across the insurance value chain
- Establish data operating models, including governance structures, roles, and responsibilities (data owners, stewards, custodians)
- Define personas and data consumption patterns across business functions (Underwriting, Claims, Finance, Distribution, Risk)
Data Management Frameworks
- Design and implement best practices for:
- Product master data management (MDM)
- Data cataloguing and metadata management
- Data quality frameworks (rules, KPIs, monitoring)
- Reference and master data standards
- Define standard artefacts such as:
- Data strategy and roadmap
- Data governance framework
- Data domain models
- Data lifecycle and lineage models
Programme & Delivery Leadership
- Lead large-scale programmes spanning:
- Data Lake / Data Warehouse / Lakehouse
- Analytics & BI platforms
- AI/ML enablement initiatives
- Manage multi-project portfolios across:
- Policy
- Claims
- Underwriting
- Customer data domains
- Drive alignment of data initiatives with business outcomes and KPIs
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors
- Translate insurance business requirements into data transformation initiatives
- Engage with platform providers (e.g., Guidewire, Duck Creek) to ensure seamless integration into data ecosystems
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Establish and enforce data governance, quality, and compliance frameworks
- Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements:
- IRDAI
- Solvency II
- GDPR
- Define risk management and control frameworks for data programmes
Programme Management & Execution
- Manage budgets, timelines, dependencies, and risks
- Drive delivery using Agile / SAFe methodologies
- Provide governance oversight across multiple delivery streams
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams (architects, engineers, analysts, and business SMEs
Your Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Databricks (must-have)
- Proficiency in Python and PySpark for large-scale data processing
- Solid understanding of data engineering fundamentals (ETL/ELT, batch processing, transformations)
- Proven experience building scalable and efficient data pipelines
- Exposure to Snowflake or modern cloud data warehouses
- Understanding of data architecture and system design principles
- Awareness of agentic AI and machine learning concepts, and how they integrate with data platforms
We are a Disability Confident Employer:
Capgemini is proud to be aDisability Confident Employer (Level 2)under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process.
Why you should consider Capgemini
Growing clients businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, youll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine whats possible. Its why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the worlds leading businesses, and its how youll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, youll build the skills you want. Youll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of 22.1 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com
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