Data Project Manager for a large public sector organisation
Contract Duration: 12 months with possible 12 month extension
Pay to Contractor: £500 per day (inside IR35)
Key Skills and Experience:
Key Skills:
Essential:
- Proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, influencing people at all levels across the organisation and externally. This includes negotiating, facilitating joint decision-making, and conveying concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to develop data-specific project plans, covering data strategy, migration, modelling, testing, and handling internal and external datasets.
- Adept at articulating complex concepts into effective mediums for multiple stakeholders, providing clear direction and points of integration.
- Proven ability to manage and influence senior and external stakeholders in a delivery capacity.
- · Strong project management skills, handling conflicting priorities to achieve tight deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to understand different perspectives and positively influence decision-making.
- Extensive data delivery experience, particularly in high-volume data migration scenarios.
Desirable:
- Proven ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams for end-to-end performance.
- Positive, can-do attitude with a track record of delivering cost-effective solutions and providing confident direction during times of uncertainty and change.
- Proficient in managing project and workstream risk, including negotiation and problem-solving skills.
Key Knowledge:
- Substantial knowledge of planning, project, and risk management tools and techniques.
- Good knowledge of architectural data principles and the relationship between data sets and related data, application, and technology domains.
- Expertise in data modelling/structures, data governance, data strategies, data quality, and data migration.
- Familiarity with recognised project management methodologies (e.g., APM, Prince 2) and delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile Scrum).
- Good understanding of data tooling, data transformation/extraction, and loading techniques, tools, and frameworks.
- Educated to a degree level or equivalent (post-graduate qualifications in related fields desirable).
Key Experience:
- Proven experience managing technology and data projects up to a value of £10M in large, complex, and regulated organisations.
- Management of multiple stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience in managing complex data-centric projects and migration of large data repositories.
- Successful migration of large data repositories from externally owned locations into secure internal repositories.
- Experience in carrying out design authority duties or related assurance roles.
The Authority will provide:
- Microsoft Office 365
- Microsoft Visio
- Mural
- Azure Dev Ops
- Company provided laptop