Data Manager (For independent contractors)

The Data Manager supports the implementation of processes for how data is produced and consumed by the data management team, including governance, architecture, and quality, in order to meet evolving business objectives and technology landscapes. The jobholder works with business and technology team members to support implementation of the data strategy for meeting specific business objectives. As a core member of a product development or strategic insights team, supports solution development in order to ensure the data requirements of business objectives are met with compliance, high quality, extensibility, and commercial success.

Key responsibilities include: supporting the creation of physical data models that can be operationalised within the company's workflows and infrastructure; supporting the mapping of data flows between systems and workflows across the company; supporting the implementation of efficient data ingestion solutions, batch processing, and event-based streams; connecting datasets from different systems into a unified solution; monitoring relevant SLIs and SLOs; supporting the definition of quality requirements for data assets; developing data validation solutions; implementing solutions for monitoring, failure detection, and data availability; building software applications by using relevant development languages; ensuring data timeliness based on business requirements; and being responsible for data management related Data Governance processes as defined in the Data Governance Framework.

Requirements of special knowledge/skills: beginner knowledge of data modeling methods (Relational, Dimensional); intermediate knowledge of data quality requirements and implementation methodologies; intermediate knowledge of Data Management requirements based on best practices (e.g. DAMA-DMBOK); intermediate knowledge of one or more database querying languages or scripting tools (e.g. SQL, VBA, Pandas, R); and basic job knowledge (1-3 years).