Data Manager – Strategic Delivery & Governance Lead
12 month fixed term contract
Overview
This is a senior data leadership role responsible for owning and delivering a multi‑year data warehouse and reporting transformation, working through external vendors and delivery partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of an organisation‑wide data and reporting transformation, including the introduction of a cloud‑based data warehouse
- Own the relationship with outsourced data warehouse, engineering and hosting partners, holding vendors accountable for delivery, quality and outcomes
- Translate business needs into clear data requirements, roadmaps and priorities, and articulate technical concepts in plain language
- Establish data governance, security, quality and access standards in partnership with governance and risk teams
- Act as the bridge between technical delivery teams and senior non‑technical stakeholders affected by data change
- Embed a data‑driven culture by raising data literacy and ensuring data is treated as a shared organisational asset
Required Experience
- Proven experience leading data warehouse or enterprise data platform transformations
- Comfortable managing vendors and outsourced technical teams across design, build and operate phases
- Strong understanding of modern data architectures, reporting and ingestion approaches (enough to challenge and guide delivery, not to code)
- Able to quickly establish credibility with technical partners while remaining highly effective with business leaders
- Confident translating complex, technical concepts into clear impacts, options and decisions for non‑technical audiences
- Delivery‑focused, proactive, and comfortable operating with ambiguity in a transforming environment
Technical Skills
- Cloud hosting and data ingestion tooling
- Modern reporting and analytics platforms
- Data governance, security and access control models
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