The Pepperstone story started in 2010. We know what it’s like to trade the world’s markets. Our team describes us as a place for the curious and the driven, and we like to do things a little differently; as a transformative global fintech we’re digital, nimble, connected, and united in our vision to create a better way to trade.

We thrive on progress – for our clients and for ourselves. Our organisational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global and results focused. You’ll find our 350+ team currently across 9 locations and 6 time zones.

The Role

Our technology team thrives on inclusivity and collaboration, believing that diverse perspectives lead to great solutions. We foster a culture that champions individual growth, professional development, and work-life harmony. We're invested in your success and dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. We encourage our team to bring challenge thinking and fresh ideas to the table and our Agile approach empowers us to focus on outcomes. When we hire someone it's because they bring the skills, attitude and experience we're looking for....so we let you do what you're best at! Join us and be part of a community that's passionate about harnessing technology's potential to drive market leading solutions for our clients. Elevate your career in an environment where your ideas matter, your growth is nurtured, and your potential is limitless.

The Data Governance & Enablement Manager is responsible for establishing and leading and developing a team within our newly created global Enterprise Data function. The role must help the organisation strike the balance between meeting our obligations to protect the interests of internal and external data stakeholders and creating a data culture where data is readily accessible to everyone who needs it. This position will take a key role working across the IT Governance Uplift project which will focus on the review and uplift of our compliance policies and procedures. This role will have a focus on collaborating with the wider Technology team to create an understanding across Pepperstone's data landscape.

As our Data Governance & Enablement Manager, your key responsibilities include, but may not be limited to:

• Establish the Data Governance Organisation, including defining roles and responsibilities for Data Owners, Data Stewards and Data Custodians to drive ownership and accountability
• Establish a framework, register and RACI for tracking data management risks
• Define metrics and a scorecard to track the uplift of Data Governance over time
• Drive the approach to the observability and classification of information assets and structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
• Collaborate with our IT Governance Uplift project and other key stakeholders to review and uplift our compliance policies and procedures, including data access, records retention and disposal, right to be forgotten requests, data subject access requests, data masking, data collection, data usage and data breach response, etc.
• Collaborate with the wider Technology team to to create a shared understanding of our overall data landscape, including data domains, applications, source of truth / trusted replicas / other copies of data and data flows
• Select, implement and drive adoption of a data catalogue for our structured and semi-structured data, BI and ETL
• Partner with stakeholders to identify our most critical data elements and understand their value and desired quality characteristics across a variety of dimensions
• Establish technical and business data quality controls, monitoring and remediation planning
• Establish processes for Data Governance to interact with our overall delivery methodology, including Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Governance Impact Assessments as part of project ideation, solution design and change management
• Collaborate with the wider Enterprise Data team to establish our approach to Reference and Master Data Management

About you

• Extensive experience in data governance and management in a financial services organisation
• You are passionate and eloquent about the opportunities for good data governance to be a driver for business success
• You have a proven track record of establishing and leading a Data Governance team which balances compliance and risk-mitigation outcomes against business objectives and velocity
• Proven track record of selection, implementing and driving the adoption of data catalogue, data observability and data quality tooling
• Strong knowledge of core data management concepts beyond traditional data warehousing, including transactional systems, CDPs, streaming, non-relational data stores and AI / ML models
• Familiarity with contemporary cloud-native data management technologies, ideally on AWS
• Familiarity with working in a regulated environment, ideally in a global organisation
• Critical thinking and commercial acumen, with the ability to frame data risks and opportunities in terms of commercial impact
• Confidence in having robust conversations with auditors, regulators and internal stakeholders

Why you will enjoy working with us

• Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
• Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard
• Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
• 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave
• 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
• Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social
• Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne
• Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers
• A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas

About Pepperstone

We’re a regulated online Forex and CFD trading platform. With the scale of a global fintech and the agility of a start-up, we arm our clients with everything they need to take on the global markets with confidence. You will be part of a wider passionate and friendly team, and whilst things may not always go to plan, we learn quickly and move forward with impact. To learn even more visit Pepperstonecareers and www.linkedin.com/company/pepperstone/

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Pepperstone is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionate about building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from any background.

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