Metadata & Data Quality Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Data & Analytics
Closing date: 24 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400069860
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as the Metadata & Data Quality Manager offers a unique opportunity to lead the strategic vision and implementation of an effective data quality framework and Data Cataloguing capability, contributing to our Next Level Strategy. As a key technology leader, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders and drive improvements in data quality and governance across the organisation. With a focus on innovation, strategic thinking, and strong leadership, this role provides a platform for you to make a significant impact by shaping data management processes and capabilities that will drive success in our ever-evolving multi-channel, multi-brand business.
What you'll do
As the Metadata & Data Quality Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be responsible for defining and establishing an enterprise-wide data management strategy that supports the Next Level Strategy, focusing on data quality improvements, controls, and the curation of Group Data Catalogue content. Leading a team of Metadata and Data Quality analysts, you will work with key stakeholders to create a culture of good quality, validated data across the organisation, while developing and coaching the team to support the strategic vision for implementing an effective data quality framework and Data Cataloguing capability. Your role will involve driving data quality improvements, managing the overall value creation and transformation programme of the Group Data Catalogue, and ensuring that key strategic choices about governance, quality, and cataloguing are well-known and agreed upon by key stakeholders and leadership teams.
Who you are
As a Metadata & Data Quality Manager at Sainsbury's, you are an accomplished leader with a strong strategic mindset and a proven track record in delivering enterprise-wide data management strategies. Your ability to envision the bigger picture and engage with senior stakeholders up to Operating Board level demonstrates your effective communication skills and confidence in driving organisational change. With a deep understanding of engineering, architecture, and data delivery principles, as well as expertise in data quality methodologies and data cataloguing capabilities, you play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing a robust data quality framework and driving the successful adoption of data governance practises across the organisation.
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience defining and delivering an enterprise-wide data management strategy, including ownership of data quality improvement and governance.
- Demonstrable experience leading the implementation, rollout and adoption of a Data Catalogue capability (e.g. Alation, Collibra or similar).
- Strong understanding of metadata management, data stewardship, data ownership, data quality frameworks and data governance principles.
- Experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams within a data, analytics or governance function.
- Ability to influence and challenge senior business and technology stakeholders, including Director and Head-level audiences.
- Strong knowledge of engineering, architecture and data management principles, including data warehouses, data platforms and data lifecycle management.
- Experience establishing data quality controls, triage processes, prioritisation frameworks and remediation plans supported by KPIs and business impact measures.
- Experience creating reporting and visualisations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy or similar platforms.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply)."
