Senior Data Governance Manager – Legal

Are you looking for a juicy greenfield Data Governance project?

Well, a prestigious international law firm based out of London are on the lookout for somebody to come in and start from the ground upwards.

We have been retained for a second time to assist build out a world class Data function with the latest requirement being a Senior Data Governance Manager.

This is a real opportunity to showcase your experience for a firm that works on behalf of a number of large and interesting clients by helping to create the internal and external governance function.  

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the formation of a Global Data Strategy, through advice on the applicable regulatory and legislative frameworks and how they apply to our business
• Audit compliance with good data management in the business
•  Manage the data queries which come into the R&C team
• Provide advice and assistance to the Firm in relation to conduct and regulatory matters
• Leading, communicating, and overseeing the implementation of strategic goals and objectives in relation to data management.

Additional Responsibilities

• Lead Data Governance Working Groups and Boards to communicate Data Sharing best practices,
• resolve issues and share lessons learned
• Take an active role in the delivery of culture change
• Help develop and maintain data governance standards, practices, processes, and technologies to
• support data lifecycle management
• Enable and oversee data flow mapping activity ensuring records are maintained
• Champion data governance practices across the business to increase the impact of data as a strategic business asset and in support of the Data Strategy

• Work with diverse teams across the business to up-skill people and embed good data governance practices into key processes
•  Define and support the operationalization of related roles and responsibilities (Data Owners, Stewards, etc.) across the business
• Define, measure, and track the benefits of good data quality framework and best practices across the business
• Collaborating with the Head of Data Strategy, map Kennedy’s core systems and the information assets that are held in these systems, as well as the teams and processes that use them
•  Identify and develop policies and standards that need to be put in place to ensure the role can be carried out effectively and efficiently

General Duties

• Maintain the high standard of service offered to the Firm’s internal clients and assist in creating

• and developing the professional reputation of the department
• Understand and live by Kennedys values – approachable, straightforward, supportive and
• distinctive
• Be subject to varying degrees of supervision on a day-to-day basis
• Create and maintain professional and positive relationships with customers, clients, and other
• employees
• Work in line with the Firm’s Contribution Areas which are specific to your role and level
• Always maintain trust and confidentiality
• Act as a Trusted Advisor by building relationships across business services to ensure a consistent approach and service
• Undertake any specific training as and when required by the HR Department, supervisor, or Partners of the Firm
• Operate safely and considerately in the workplace.
• Guide technical teams across the business on methods for improving and embedding data quality management at the product management and development level through the entire data lifecycle and develop approaches for data quality improvement and the accuracy of data.

SENIOR MANAGER/DIRECTOR - STRATEGIC HIRE - PART OF SLT - UK WIDE

Orbition has been retained by a market-leading data solutions and consultancy business that are going through a period of hyper-growth, to add a Senior Manager/Director to its Senior Leadership Team.

This is a strategic hire for the organisation and a unique opportunity to run a business for one of the most exciting data consultancies in Europe.

The organisation in question boasts some of the most high-profile clients across a variety of sectors, including; Natwest Group, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Sainsbury’s Bank, Nordea, Atom Bank, HMRC, BP etc

This person will play a pivotal role in growing and developing the business internally, while also being the fact of the business to the organisations they support.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience in multiple areas – Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Migration, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Project Delivery across advisory and technical delivery projects.
• Prior experience of one or multiple core Data & BI Solution
• Project Management skills – Experience of delivering projects across the lifecycle from end to end.
• Senior stakeholder management and interpersonal skills with business/technical focused stakeholders.
• Experience of and capability to discuss client needs for both project delivery and proposal work – translating these into solutions and executing the project.
• Demonstrated ability or experience of building and maintaining client relationships.
• Experience of internal people development.
• Experience of leading people and teams on projects.
• Demonstrated experience of building internal capability and leading propositions and taking new ideas to market.
• Evidence of support, helping and leading sales.
• Flexibility to travel to and work on client sites within the UK

Key skills:

• A high level of drive with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Experience of providing insightful solutions throughout the business.
• The ability to participate effectively in meetings with senior stakeholders.
• A team player who supports, encourages and shares knowledge with others.
• A self-starter with the ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision.
• A track record of accurate output and responsibility for elements of project delivery.
• The ability to work as part of an integrated team or on an individual basis.
• Awareness of industry standards, regulations and developments.

If you are currently working in a Data-centric role where customer success is at the heart of all you do, we'd love to hear from you. Please get in touch to have a confidential chat.

DATA ENGINEERING LEAD - UK BASED - GLOBAL ROLE

Could you imagine being the Data Engineering Lead for the fastest growing management consultancy in Europe, in a global role?

A hyper-growth business which is doing something seriously innovative and valuable.

A business that, after growing to 800 people in 5 years, has just been PE-backed and has plans to get to 1500 in 12 months’ time, as they open their first USA office in early 2022.

This organisation supports some of the biggest brands in the world (over 100 actually), to solve complex business problems with the intelligent use of Data, Artificial Intelligence & Next Generation Technologies.

Organisations such as; Morgan Stanley, Mars, HSBC, Sky, Monzo, Deliveroo, JP Morgan Chase, Jaguar Land Rover, Proctor & Gamble, Sainsburys, Nationwide, Shell, Santander, Legal & General, Total, Schroders, UBS, The Telegraph.

The Data Engineering Lead will sit on a senior leadership team of 14 industry thought-leaders and subject matter experts, all of whom have come from industry.

Your time will be split between:

• Being the strategic advisor for AI projects with the likes of the above organisations (50%)
• Coaching, teaching & mentoring the organisation's Data & ML Engineering academy (50%)

What The Role Entails:

• Expert knowledge in modern data engineering. This includes modelling, cloud data warehouse, SQL, DevOps and building data pipelines from development to production.
• Advising our clients and leading the strategy for complex data engineering projects across a diverse set of industry
• Training and mentoring the next generation of junior data specialists. This includes leading by example, training in a hybrid mix of on-premises in our labs as well as remotely via Teams
• Supporting our on-site consultants with client work and solving real-life technical problems.
• Deepening your own community footprint as well as Kubrick’s through public speaking evangelism at some of the most respected events.
• Your expertise will also be required in a pre-sales capacity in demonstrating knowledge to help open up opportunities for projects and demand for consultants.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Genuine enthusiasm for developing, training, and mentoring junior consultants.

• Deep knowledge and experience collaborating and leading in modern data teams with skills aligned with our tech-stack of:

o Cloud Data Warehouse (particularly Azure)

o SQL –MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.

o Data modelling

o Modern data pipelines

o Spark

o Azure Data Factory

o DevOps / CICD pipelines

o Test automation

What’s on Offer:

• A highly competitive package and a great working environment.

• Opportunities to upskill, lead on, as well as learn - the latest technologies by working with and learning from our highly experienced principal consultants.

• A chance to develop the careers of young professionals

Candidates must be able to get to the office in London, UK once a week! Hit apply to find out more

HEAD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - UK BASED - GLOBAL ROLE

Could you imagine being the Head of Artificial Intelligence for the fastest growing management consultancy in Europe, in a global role?

A hyper-growth business that is doing something seriously innovative and valuable.

A business that, after growing to 800 people in 5 years, has just been PE-backed and has plans to get to 1500 in 12 months’ time, as they open their first USA office in early 2022.

This organisation supports some of the biggest brands in the world (over 100 actually), to solve complex business problems with the intelligent use of Data, Artificial Intelligence & Next Generation Technologies.

Organisations such as; Morgan Stanley, Mars, HSBC, Sky, Monzo, Deliveroo, JP Morgan Chase, Jaguar Land Rover, Proctor & Gamble, Sainsburys, Nationwide, Shell, Santander, Legal & General, Total, Schroders, UBS, The Telegraph.

The Head of Artificial Intelligence will sit on a senior leadership team of 14 industry thought-leaders and subject matter experts, all of whom have come from industry.

Your time will be split between:

• Being the strategic advisor for AI projects with the likes of the above organisations (50%)
• Coaching, teaching & mentoring the organisation's Data & ML Engineering academy (50%)

What The Role Entails:

• Deep explainable knowledge of statistics and probability supervised and unsupervised machine learning models, NLP, ML Engineering and MLOps on the Azure stack. You need to be able to explain the models and their performance to both technical and business audiences.

• Advising our clients and leading the strategy for complex machine learning projects across a diverse set of industry

• Training and mentoring the next generation of junior machine learning specialists. This includes leading by example, training in a hybrid mix of on-premises in our labs as well as remotely via Teams.

• Supporting our on-site consultants with client work and solving real-life technical problems.

• Deepening your own community footprint and the organisations through public speaking evangelism at some of the most respected events.

• Your expertise will also be required in a pre-sales capacity in demonstrating knowledge to help uncover further opportunities for projects and demand for consultants.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Genuine enthusiasm for developing, training, and mentoring junior consultants.
• Deep knowledge and experience collaborating and leading in modern data teams with skills aligned with our tech-stack of:
•  Statistics & Probability
• Classification and Regression Machine Learning Models (advanced)
• Natural Language Processing / Generation
• Time Series
• Azure Machine Learning
• Tensorflow & Tensorboard / Pytorch
• Python - expert
• Unit Testing
• Linting
• CI/CD DevOps pipelines (particularly Azure DevOps)
• Docker

What’s on Offer:

• A highly competitive package and a great working environment.
• Opportunities to upskill, lead on, as well as learn - the latest technologies by working with and learning from our highly experienced principal consultants.
• A chance to develop the careers of young professionals

Candidates must be able to get to the company HQ in London, UK once per week. Hit the apply button and Kyle Winterbottom will give you a call to discuss more details.

DIRECTOR OF DATA & ANALYTICS - FTSE 100 - MARKET LEADER & RECOGNISED BRAND - GREENFIELD ENVIRONMENT

Could you imagine having the opportunity to establish, develop and build a Data & Analytics function in a greenfield environment?

Now imagine having the opportunity to do that for a FTSE 100 organisation that is valued at £5 billion, is the market leader in their sector, and is known and trusted by millions of people, enterprise wide!

Well, here's your chance...

Orbition has been retained by that very organisation to appoint a Director of Data to establish, develop and build a Data & Analytics capability in a greenfield environment. This organisation is the market leader in the sector which they operate and are a brand that you'll know, trust and have most probably used. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to drive the strategic direction of a FTSE 100 enterprise in a greenfield environment, while being responsible for designing, developing, and implementing the Data Strategy,  Culture,  and Literacy across the organisation.

The Director of Data role is to ensure this organisation unlocks the value contained in its data and information and define and deliver it's data strategy.

It's vision is to move to a ‘Data as a Service’ model where the business and data teams work together on opportunities to apply data to real-world business problems. The Director of Data will also lead the data team, with team members supporting functions including business insights, data engineering, data science and analytics.

There are several use cases the organisation wishes to capitlaise on, including productising and monetising it's Data while improving customer experience, all of which will drive value back to the organisation. 

• Lead a brand-new best in class data capability by building a high performing team, made up of existing team members and to-be-recruited roles
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders and other leaders to understand data priorities and pursue them with passion
• Expand and develop the ability for the data team to serve business users with insights and recommendations through both self-service and collaborative approaches
• Foster a culture of ‘data democratisation’ to ensure data not only gets to where it is needed, but also gives people the skills they need to make sense of that data
• Implement a modern cloud-based unified data platform, supported by excellent data engineering practices
• Participate in planning the evolution of the data platform through active involvement in architectural workshops and non-functional design discussions
• Develop a modern data science capability, from concept and training to deployment in production
• Oversee data governance and quality initiatives

• You have created, grown and lead commercial data teams across different disciplines (engineering, analysis, data science)
• You can establish empathetic and collaborative relationships with different business functions, and can communicate with stakeholders at all levels
• You have good experience of cloud data platforms and architecture
• You are able to coach, mentor and nurture team members and support them with their professional growth
• You can communicate complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders
• You can develop long-term roadmaps and deliver against a vision

If this sounds like a bit of you then hit apply and we'll be in touch to discuss the details 

Data and Insights Analyst

£30,000 to £40,000 (depending on skills and experience)

(Please note: you must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship)

Based in the Northwest, Orbitions client are one of the country’s fastest growing Retail and Ecommerce companies in the UK.

Having recently been joined by one of the Data IQ Top 100, and the inception of a new 30 strong, analytics team, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing and thriving business.

The company boasts a strong and leading data academy, to push training and development, but they also run a peer-to-peer coaching/mentor scheme. This scheme is aimed to utilise the team’s wealth of skills and help to drive a data excellence culture, whilst allowing you to up skill.

Role

A brand-new position for a Data and Insights Analyst, has been created with the focus of driving improvements and insight through meaningful analytics with in the digital space and focused at optimising the companies stock, merchandising and supply chain.  This role will utilise digital & trading data and intelligence tools to analyse category, product, and customer behaviour, performance and trends, to support the optimisation of the business’s digital strategy.

Accountabilities

• Understand business questions and challenges from business stakeholders
• Prepare and analyse data to answer those questions
• Utilise digital/web intelligence tools to analyse category, product, and customer behaviour, interpreting trends and insight for business benefit
• Utilise digital insights to recommend courses of action, focusing on optimising ecommerce performance
• Manage and maintain reports/dashboards, adding features/functionality and troubleshooting as required
• Adhere to, champion, and seek to improve Enterprise Data Products and digital insight processes and best practices

Required

• 2 years+ experience in analysis / data science

• Ability to interpret web traffic, customer behaviours, trading performance, and other vital metrics
• Demonstratable experience of working with SQL

• Experience with dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Qlik, and/or Power BI and the ability to use the data to tell a story.

• Experience of competitor analysis and identifying market trends, as well as an understanding of retail supply chain

• Strong presentation skills (verbal and written)
• Experience working in a dynamic marketing department with customer focussed analysis
• Ability to build trust and rapport with business users
• Ability to explain data, dashboard, and data science and recommendations clearly and succinctly
• Skilled in requirements gathering/analysis
• Ability to cleanse, manipulate, and analyse data with tools/languages such as Excel, SQL, and Alteryx
• Successful delivery of reports using different reporting tools such as Business Objects and/or Excel
• Experience delivering as part of an Agile team preferred
• Aptitude and attitude for increasing technical skills
• Excellent critical thinking and solution creation skills
• Ability to deliver in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Experience in effectively managing a range of tasks and priorities, simultaneously 
•  

This role will operate remotely but there will be some expectation to attend office HQ (as defined by the company).

Senior Data Engineer / Data Solution Architect

Salary £85,000 to £110,000 depending on Experience

Who are They?

My client is a leader in helping public and private enterprises digitally transform their businesses by securely harnessing, migrating to and operating Cloud technologies. They deliver Digital services quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively.

They operate and work with international clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with ambitious, exciting and transformative agendas. They pride themselves on their ambition, strong team ethic and diversity – over 10 different languages are spoken by their team members! Capitalising on recent growth, there is no ceiling in regard to personal and professional development.

When delivering client’s digital transformation goals, they:

• Outcomes focused.
• Select and deliver cutting edge solutions.
• Modernise networks, infrastructure, applications and security wrap by using a practical, integrated and holistic approach.
• Take full lifecycle delivery responsibility, from strategy through to implementation.
• Deliver at pace while effectively mitigating risk and controlling costs.
• Operate as a trusted advisor with our clients and their teams.

The team, which is made up of business transformation technology and engineering experts, have successfully delivered Digital Transformation across a vast number of leading national and global enterprises. They also have delivery management and engineering advisors and practitioners who work with the latest Cloud technologies across networks, infrastructure, applications, data intelligence and security.

Their principal Cloud services and vendors are (but not limited to): Microsoft Azure and 365, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, VMWare and Zscaler.

If you can see yourself making a difference to their group, then I look forward to hearing from you.

Role Description

My client is looking for a Data Architect or Data Engineer with 5+ years’ experience of designing and developing cloud-based data solutions to join our Data, Analytics and AI team.

The ideal candidate would ensure solutions meet the business need by working in a DevOps fashion to design and deliver the technical solution.

They are looking for an experienced architect/ engineer who is confident in delivering business critical, high-impact solutions, aware of and uses data and security best-practices and can coach both clients and Junior Developers.

They offer vocational certificates, mentoring and exciting career progression opportunities.

The role is UK based, with a possible requirement to travel to Europe and the Middle East from time to time.

Responsibilities

• Technical hands-on role to design, build, migrate and transform Cloud Data Storage, Integration and Analysis Solutions  
• Advise on solution options for a business need, clearly presenting the technical components and their implications for cost, functional and non-functional capabilities.
• Support the Project team to capture technical requirements.
• Produce design documentation to present and iterate to customers and their governance boards, securing approval from Design Authorities, Security and CAB.
• Complete the environment and solution build / migration activities, primarily in Azure and some AWS and/or GCP.
• Support client training / handover instructions.
• Support pre-sales activity.
• Building strong working relationships, with the team, customers and third parties to enable successful product delivery.
• Working in teams using development methodologies and tools, such as Agile, DevOps, Scrum, KanBan, Waterfall, Prince2.
• Proactively responding to changes in scope and devise options to present to the client or delivery lead.

Role Requirements – mandatory

• Design and implementation experience developing Azure data warehouse solutions (using services such as Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Data Bricks, Stream Analytics, Data Lake, Blob Storage, CosmosDB, EFS, SQL Server, Analysis Services, PowerBI and/or Tableau)
• Data integration and pipeline development
• Working knowledge of SQL server, T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Competent in at least one programming language: Python, R, Powershell, C#
• Proactive and creative problem solver
• Experience in Datawarehouse migrations from on-prem to cloud
• Operates using Agile/iterative development methodology.
• Able to work in a self-directed manner, proactively seeking out areas that need attention, rather than being asked to look at specific problem areas.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and a passion to solve hard problems.
• Robust character and determination to achieve goals and deliver outcomes.

Role Requirements – desirable but not essential)

• Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Certification DP-200 and DP-201
• Data Science experience
• AWS and GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (especially for data storage, orchestration and analysis, e.g. RDS, Sagemaker, BigQuery)
• Competent in developing Microsoft CDS / Dataverse databases (within PowerPlatform)
• M365 data management
• Sharepoint, Access, Excel
• API services
• Mathematics, statistics, or IT training, certifications or degrees
• Technical leadership skills
• Consulting background

Benefits 

• Bonuses based on performance​.
• Health insurance​
• Generous pension​
• Extensive training and development budget
• Professional development and training ​
• Modern, stylish office accommodation in Central Manchester or Central London as preferred​
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge technology as part of a great team​
• Opportunity for career progression and promotion​
• Opportunities to work abroad​.
• Join a sustainable equal opportunity employer ​
• Time to work on your own ‘pet project’, linked to company mission.