Senior Data Manager

Flutter entertainment; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming and entertainment company is seeking a Senior Data Lead to manage data strategy for their global HR Transformation. This role involves leading data migration processes and ensuring successful project delivery. Candidates should have 8+ years of experience in ERP implementations and a strong background in HR systems such as Workday. The position offers a hybrid working model with excellent benefits.

Benefits

Bonus scheme

Uncapped holiday allowance

Enhanced pension scheme

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Income protection

£1,000 annual self-development fund

Sharesave Scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in similar roles with ERP implementations.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead data-related tasks for the HR Transformation project.
• Develop comprehensive data strategy and manage data migration.
• Ensure alignment with Functional Leads and stakeholders.

Skills

Data strategy development

Project management

Data migration expertise

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

8+ years relevant experience

Tools

Workday

Job description

Overview

Hybrid - 2 days per week. We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Lead to spearhead the data component of our global HR Transformation project. The successful candidate will manage data strategy and execution across multiple countries, with a primary focus on implementing and optimizing Workday as the core HR solution. This role requires deep expertise in data migration, transformation, and integration, as well as strong leadership and project management skills. You will collaborate closely with the Solution Lead, Integration Lead, Testing Lead and Technical leads for each functional area and location to manage data-related activities for the programme. You will manage a small team of individuals across Flutter and our partner PwC and have responsibility for ensuring the successful and timely extraction, transformation and delivery of data. The role also involves driving forward our playbook, including integrating tools to automate Data Migration for future rollouts. About Flutter In Flutter COO we work with experts across Flutter to build, deploy and communicate the Flutter Edge. Together we cover Product & Payments, Technology, Sportsbook Product & Trading, People, Property, Corporate Communications and Strategic Partnerships & Transformation.

What you’ll do

• Act as the senior-most data expert on the project, overseeing data-related tasks and ensuring alignment with the overall HR Transformation goals.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive data strategy document, in collaboration with project stakeholders, that outlines the approach for data extraction, transformation, and loading.
• Provide regular updates and insights on data progress, risks, and mitigation plans to the Solution Lead

Responsibilities by area

• Project and Team Management: Lead an internal Data Lead as well as the vendor data team, owning all data tasks across various project phases.
• Ensure alignment with Functional Leads across Core HR, Reward, Recruitment, Absence, Time Tracking, and Payroll, as well as with the Integration and Security Leads.
• Data Migration and Transformation: Oversee data migration from legacy HR platforms, including Workday and other systems, to our centralized HR platform. Ensure our method is quick and repeatable.
• Develop data quality checkpoints and validation processes to maintain data accuracy and consistency throughout each phase.
• Manage multiple prototypes, progressively refining data accuracy to ensure successful deployment.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Work closely with Functional, Integration, and Security leads to align data requirements with functional processes. Act as a key point of contact for data-related questions, aligning expectations across multiple countries and functional areas.
• Toolkit Creation and Governance: Implement data governance best practices to ensure high standards of data quality, security, and compliance. Create a toolkit and accelerator tools to enable Flutter to deliver these deployments from a technical perspective at pace and without vendor assistance.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience within similar roles and project delivery experience with one or more ERP implementations in HCM or Financials.
• A flexible and delivery-focused perspective with the ability to engage, inspire and motivate colleagues, even in challenging circumstances.
• Expertise in HR systems (Workday preferred) and their integrations with bolt-on technologies.
• Superior attention to detail, organisation and analytical skills and able to manage conflicting priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Have strong communication skills and able to collaborate, working well across multiple workstreams, teams and markets.
• Ability to lead and motivate a data team.
• An excellent understanding of data structures, conversions and migration strategies within the context of a global HR Transformation programme using Workday.
• Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• We are a flexible employer; personal commitments or hobbies are welcomed. We have an excellent benefits package that can be personalised to you:
• Bonus scheme
• Uncapped holiday allowance
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Income protection
• £1,000 annual self-development learning fund
• Invest via the Flutters Sharesave Scheme
• Enhanced parental leave