Data Lead Specialist

• We identify, create and maintain the Data Dictionary required to deliver new requirements, mapped to the as-is Data Dictionary to support data migration and transition planning.
• We review contractual specifications, detailed business requirements and functional requirements to provide gap analysis of current versus new data.
• We coordinate new data sources with client counterparts, ensuring they are stored and used in line with security marking and commercial sensitivity requirements, and made available to the development team.
• We advise and assist in creating synthetic data for development and testing where actual data sets are unavailable or unsuitable.
• We identify, create and lead the governance and stakeholder relationships needed to ensure development and test data is accurate, appropriate and handled correctly.
• We support the Senior Transition Manager and Technical Project Manager to ensure transition planning includes clear, realistic and achievable data migration and data transition tasks and milestones.
• We help plan operational transition with the client, including decisions related to open work orders, part-complete or incomplete work orders, invoicing and supplier exit.
• We prepare all required data for transition to live.
• We lead any required hypercare data reconciliation exercises.
• We support the Project Coordinator and Technical PM in identifying data risks, issues and assumptions for the RAID log.
• We support the Technical PM with Quality Gateway management, including providing data products required for gateway assessments.

Technologies:

• Azure
• CAFM
• Excel
• IaaS
• Support
• JIRA
• Kanban
• Project Manager
• SQL
• Security
• Cloud

• We have experience working in a programme environment involving data migration and transition, or in a project where data is collated, refined and remodelled for migration from one IT platform to another.
• We have experience with data used in CAFM software and/or delivering FM contracts.
• We have experience working with SQL and MS Excel, including Pivot Tables and Macros.
• We have experience gathering and presenting analytics, reports and findings to internal and external stakeholders.
• We have experience producing materials outlining the transition of data from source to source.
• We have experience with systemised processes and workflows, with clear alignment between data flows and business flows.
• We have experience ensuring the integrity of data provided to developers for use in different systems.
• We have experience leveraging data for business insights and decision-making while maintaining data integrity and security.
• We have experience working in fast-paced projects with fixed go-live dates.
• We have intermediate MS Excel skills, including a working understanding of macros and Pivot Tables.
• We have a basic understanding of SQL.
• We have some experience using Jira KANBAN or another digital KANBAN tool.
• We have a good working knowledge of software, integration and hosting technologies, including Azure and IaaS virtualised environments.

Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in-house agency and master vendor for KBR, a leading global engineering, construction and services company supporting the hydrocarbon and government services markets across six continents. KBR has 28,000 employees worldwide, operates in 34 countries and delivers to customers in 80 countries. We are recruiting a Data Lead for a 7-month assignment based in Leatherhead, Surrey, supporting KBRs Estates Intelligence division and a major mobilisation programme to onboard a new client into our Viaverse solution. This programme will deliver a scaled transition across multiple workstreams, covering design, build, test, transition and hypercare, and offers the opportunity to join a large multidisciplinary technology team delivering significant benefit to a large public sector department.