Data Lead

TN United Kingdom; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Data Lead for a pivotal role in a large-scale public sector project. This position involves overseeing data migration, ensuring data integrity, and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance operational processes. The role offers a hybrid working model, allowing for flexibility while contributing to significant projects that deliver substantial benefits. If you have a passion for data and a desire to make an impact in a dynamic environment, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive hourly pay rate

Hybrid working model

Long-term contract assignment

Qualifications

• Experience in data migration and transition projects.
• Proficient in SQL and MS Excel, including macros and pivots.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Data Dictionary for migration and transition planning.
• Coordinate new data sources and ensure data accuracy.
• Support data transition tasks and lead reconciliation exercises.

Skills

Data Migration

Data Cleansing

Stakeholder Communication

Data Governance

SQL

MS Excel

Data Analysis

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Data Science or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure

Job description

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Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in-house agency and master vendor for KBR, a leading global engineering, construction, and services company.

KBR supports the hydrocarbon and government services markets on six continents. Serving their customers through diverse business units, KBR offers challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects.

KBR is looking to recruit a Data Lead on a 24-month contract based in Leatherhead, Surrey.

On Offer:

• Competitive hourly pay rate
• Outside IR35, highly likely, so engagement through an LLC is permitted
• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days from home
• Long-term contract assignment

Role Overview:

KBR’s latest Viaverse was deployed for the Department of Work & Pensions Estates (DWP-E) to deliver the ‘Integrator2’ platform in May 2022. This platform acts as the ‘single source of truth’ for DWP Estates teams, ensuring consistent, performant, and efficient lifecycle management of assets across their sites. It manages real-time transactional flows to DWP Estates supply chain partners and provides management information and insights to stakeholders.

DWP-E has embarked on a major re-procurement of asset management services via the ‘Workplace Services Programme’ (WPS), redesigning and transitioning services into six new lots. Each project involves redesign, build, test, transition, and hypercare, with significant data transition and operational changes, expected to conclude around November 2025.

Led by the senior team that mobilized the platform, KBR is building a multidisciplinary technology team to deliver critical components of the DWP WPS Programme. This is a significant opportunity to join a large-scale public sector project delivering substantial benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, create, and maintain Data Dictionary to support new requirements, ensuring mapping to ‘as-is’ Data Dictionary for migration and transition planning.
• Review contractual and business requirements to analyze gaps between current and new systems.
• Coordinate new data sources with client counterparts, ensuring secure storage and utilization.
• Assist in creating synthetic data for development/testing when actual data is unavailable or unsuitable.
• Establish governance and stakeholder relationships to ensure data accuracy and proper handling.
• Support transition planning, focusing on data migration, data transition tasks, and milestones.
• Work directly with the client on operational transition planning, including handling open work orders and invoicing issues.
• Prepare data for transition to live environment.
• Lead hypercare data reconciliation exercises.
• Identify data risks, issues, and assumptions for RAID logs.
• Support in Quality Gateway management with data products.

Experience:

• Experience in data migration, transition, or collation projects, especially in environments involving data cleansing and restructuring for migration.
• Experience with CAFM software and/or FM contract delivery.
• Proficiency with SQL and MS Excel (including macros and pivots).
• Experience in analytics, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to produce materials outlining data transition processes.
• Knowledge of systemized processes and workflows ensuring data-business flow synergy.
• Responsibility for data integrity in system development.
• Experience in leveraging data for insights while maintaining security and integrity.
• Ability to work in fast-paced projects with fixed deadlines.

Technical Skills/Knowledge:

• Intermediate MS Excel skills, including macros and pivot tables.
• Basic SQL understanding is a benefit.
• Experience with Jira KANBAN or similar tools.
• Good knowledge of software, integration, and hosting technologies (Azure, IaaS virtualized).

NB: To qualify, candidates must have the right to work in the UK and be able to complete BPSS Security Clearance.