Data Manager
London / £60000 - £70000
INFO
£60000 - £70000
LOCATION
London
Permanent
Data Manager Role
London- Hammersmith & Fulham- Office 4 Days per Week
£60,000-70,000
THE COMPANY:
An exciting tech company within the property industry has recently implemented a cloud-based data infrastructure and the foundation elements of data governance and data quality management.
They are looking for a Data Manager to help them to deliver their data vision and help embed a data-driven culture across the business.
THE ROLE:
You can expect to be involved in:
- Working closely with stakeholders across the business to lead the data management agenda daily. E.g. working closely with data owners and data stewards to ensure they understand and deliver to their data accountabilities.
- Providing guidance/oversight to all data impacting system changes ensuring consequences are understood.
- Management responsibility for one internal Data Quality Analyst.
- Undertaking data quality analysis and root cause issue identification and resolution as required.
- Working closely with the Analytics Engineer and Tableau Developer
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Experience in data profiling, data quality analysis, data cleansing, master data management and metadata management
- Experience working with a modern tech stack, ideally a cloud environment
- Expert SQL knowledge
- Experience implementing/operating data governance framework - understanding the challenges of effective data governance
- Experience working with 3rd party partners as data partners
THE BENEFITS:
- A salary of up to £70,000.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Please register your interest to this Data Manager role by applying via this website. For more information on this role or other roles in the Business Intelligence market, reach out to Kathryn Self at Harnham.

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