Data Lead

Job Description

Data Lead:

Duration – 7-month assignment, based in Leatherhead, Surrey

Work pattern - Fully remote working.

Security - BPSS

Rate - £80 p/hr


A critical role within this team is the Data Lead, who will report to the Senior Transition Manager and support develop, test and transition for the six mobilisations.

Role is for meticulous, thorough and organised data analyst who can work with BAs to ensure data dictionary is created (and mapped to current), development and test data requirements are met, data sources are identified and managed through version control, data migration and/or transition approaches and plans are thorough and delivered and all data products created or revised for handover to BAU Data Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Data Lead will identify, create and maintain Data Dictionary required to deliver new requirements, ensuring this is mapped to ‘as-is’ Data Dictionary to enable data migration and transition planning to be executed.
  • Data Lead will review contractual specifications, detailed business requirements and functional requirements to provide a change/update/remove gap analysis of current vs new
  • Data Lead will coordinate new data sources with client counterpart(s) ensuring, these are stored and utilised consistent with the security marking and/or commercial sensitivity (for contractual data sets such as Schedules of Rates) and available to development team.
  • Data Lead will advise and assist in creating of synthetic data for development and testing if actual data sets not available or not appropriate for the environment
  • Data Lead will identify, create and lead required governance and stakeholder relationships required to ensure data used in development and testing is accurate, appropriate and handled correctly.
  • Data Lead will support Senior Transition Manager and Technical Project Manager in ensuring detailed transition planning has clear, realistic and achievable data migration and data transition tasks and milestones to support operational go lives, exit of suppliers and exit of hypercare (priority will be the transition of open work orders from incumbent to new suppliers, requiring planning, multi-organisational governance and reconciliation)
  • Data Lead will support Senior Transition Manager in working directly with client in planning operational transition, ensuring client make appropriate decisions required to effect the transition (including but not limited to handling of open work orders, invoicing of part-complete or incomplete work orders by exiting incumbent)
  • Data Lead will prepare all required data for transition to live
  • Data Lead will take the lead in any required hypercare data reconciliation exercises.
  • Data Lead will support Project Coordinator and Technical PM in identifying data risk, issues and assumptions for RAID log.
  • Data Lead will support Technical PM in Quality Gateway management, including providing any data products required for the gateway assessments.

Experience Requirements:

  • Experience of working in a Programme environment involve data migration and transition, or a project where data is being collated, refined, and remodelled in preparation for a similar but distinct environment, taking existing data and cleansing and restructuring for migration from one IT platform to another.
  • Experience of data used in CAFM software and/or delivering FM contracts.
  • Experience of working with SQL and MS Excel Pivots/Macros
  • Experience of gathering and presenting analytics, reports, and findings back to internal and external stakeholders
  • Experience of producing materials outlining the transition of data from source to source.
  • Experience of systemised processes/ workflows ensuring there is a clear synergy between data flows and business flows.
  • Experience being responsible for the integrity of the data being put forward to developers for use in varying systems.
  • Experience leveraging data for business insights and decision-making while ensuring data integrity and security is upheld.
  • Experience of working in fast-paced projects with fixed go-live dates

Technical Skills/Knowledge:

  • Intermediate in MS Excel, including working understanding of macros and Pivot tables
  • Basic understanding of SQL a benefit
  • Some experience using Jira KANBAN or other digital KANBAN
  • Good working knowledge of software, integration and hosting technologies (Azure and IaaS virtualized)

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