Head of Governance & Design

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Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution) 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service Bank Holidays Westfield Health Cash Plan non-contributory life assurance up to 21 hours volunteering paid days lifestyle benefits Employee Assistance Programme and many more

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

With effect from February 2026 L&Q reserve the right to not shortlist applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications within the last 24 months.

Join our Team at L&Q:

If this sounds like you we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role:

• Leading our Data Governance and Data Design teams to deliver high quality consistent well structured data across L&Q.
• Driving the development and embedding of our data governance and data quality framework ensuring one version of the truth.
• Overseeing enterprise data modelling (conceptual logical and dimensional) and ensuring data products meet agreed standards.
• Partnering closely with Data Owners IT and senior stakeholders to improve organisational data maturity.
• Championing data quality improvement plans and ensuring timely accurate regulatory returns.
• Chairing the Data Governance Forum and ensuring effective decision making communication and alignment across the business.
• Acting as an ambassador for data building engagement trust and enthusiasm across all levels of the organisation.
• Supporting the Director of Data & Information in delivering our data strategy and ensuring its understood adopted and delivered.

What youll bring:

• A natural ability to influence inspire and sell the value of data even to sceptical audiences with a strong track record of working collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong technical credibility including a strong experience across data modelling master and reference data data quality frameworks and data governance best practice.
• Proven experience embedding data governance frameworks (DGF) and data quality processes (DQP) at senior and executive level ensuring clear ownership accountability and decision-making.
• Demonstrable experience managing regulatory and statutory data returns with a strong understanding of accuracy assurance and audit requirements.
• Experience within the housing sector or local government with a solid understanding of the regulatory operational and cultural context.
• Proven experience leading high-performing data teams and working at senior level to solve complex organisation-wide data challenges.
• A genuine passion for raising data maturity improving data culture and enabling better decisions through trusted highquality data.

A Recruitment Advocate will join this recruitment process as a panel member. This is part of an internal scheme supporting our recruitment process to be fair transparent and consistent.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process including application stage please email

About L&Q:

Were one of the UKs leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for peoples health happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250000 people call our properties home and were proud to serve diverse communities across London the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times and all levels when representing L&Q click here to read more.

At L&Q we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger and theyre at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit we look at what really matters: your skills experience and potential. Were proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. Were a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and weve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair transparent and consistent. Its all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UKs largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!