Data Transformation Lead

Data Transformation Lead

12 month contract

Can be based in Stevenage, Bristol, or Bolton

Offering between £60-£70ph Inside IR35

Do you have experience leading data, BI, or reporting transformation programmes?

Do you have experience of data governance, ownership, quality, and information standards?

If your answer to these is yes, then this could be the role for you!

As the Data Transformation Lead, you will be working alongside a market-leading Defence and Aerospace company who are constantly growing and developing. They are always looking to bring on new talents such as yourself and further develop your skills to enable you to grow within the company and industry.

You will be involved in:

Programme Delivery & Governance

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Facilities Management (FM) Data & Reporting Transformation Programme against agreed phases, milestones, and deliverables
• Establish and maintain a clear programme plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions and progress reporting
• Review and validate work already undertaken against the approved programme requirements, retaining and building upon outputs that meet the required standard
• Coordinate activities across FM functions and ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement throughout delivery
• Maintain transparent programme documentation, decisions, and evidence of delivery
• Provide regular progress updates and escalate risks, issues or decisions requiring FM leadership intervention

FM Data Governance & Standardisation

• Develop and implement an FM-wide data governance framework covering data ownership, stewardship, quality, controls, and change management
• Establish a consistent FM KPI library, including agreed definitions, calculation methodologies, ownership and approval routes
• Define data quality standards and appropriate validation and reconciliation controls
• Identify duplication, conflicting definitions, and gaps across existing FM reporting
• Establish appropriate governance for the ongoing creation, amendment, and retirement of FM KPIs and reporting

Data & Technical Foundations

• Map FM data sources, systems, interfaces and manual dependencies.
• Define the central FM data model and requirements for the appropriate central FM data environment.
• Work with relevant technical specialists to establish integrations, automated data flows and refresh processes where appropriate.
• Coordinate ISS technical resource and other specialist support for defined delivery activities where required.
• Ensure technical solutions remain aligned to FM requirements and relevant organisational information and cyber-security controls.
• Ensure calculation logic and transformations are documented, controlled and capable of being independently understood and maintained.

Reporting & Performance Capability

• Assess and rationalise the existing FM reporting landscape.
• Translate FM operational and strategic requirements into consistent reporting solutions.
• Establish reporting and visualisation standards.
• Develop and/or oversee development of prioritised FM dashboards and reporting products.
• Ensure reporting supports FM governance meetings, management decision-making and strategic performance requirements.
• Lead validation, reconciliation, UAT, and stakeholder acceptance of new reporting products.

Adoption, Capability & Handover

• Establish clear documentation, guidance and support arrangements.
• Provide structured knowledge transfer to permanent FM capability throughout the assignment.
• Establish the future BAU ownership and continuous-improvement model.

Your skillset:

• Experience leading data, BI, or reporting transformation programmes from discovery through to implementation and handover
• Experience of data governance, data ownership, data quality and information standards
• Experience developing KPI frameworks and establishing consistent definitions and calculation methodologies
• Strong understanding of data modelling, data integration and reporting architecture
• Strong Power BI and BI/reporting knowledge
• Experience working with multiple data sources and identifying quality, duplication and consistency issues
• Strong programme/workstream management capability
• Experience facilitating workshops and gaining agreement across multiple stakeholder groups
• Experience of UAT, implementation, adoption and transition into BAU
• Experience working with Facilities Management, workplace, property, asset, or built-environment data
• Experience with IWMS/CAFM platforms
• Knowledge of Planon
• Experience working with outsourced FM/service-provider data
• Experience working within a regulated or security-constrained organisation
• Experience of Microsoft data technologies and associated BI environments

If this all sounds like something you will be interested in then simply apply and we can discuss the opportunity further!

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.