Data Project Manager - #194756

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