Defence Lead - Data and Analytics

Due to growing demand for our Digital - Data and Analytics services, we are seeking to recruit a Defence Data & Analytics Lead with excellent technical knowledge of designing and building scalable data solutions that will enable our clients to extract value from their data assets. This role will also take responsibility for leading teams, delivery of projects, and stakeholder engagement within the data & analytics area of our digital team.

The Role

As part of the role you will:

• Work with developers, managers, and business stakeholders to understand and define components of the data landscape and how it relates to the data strategy.
• Understand and translate end-user requirements into designs and delivery plans for effective data solutions.
• Produce high-quality communications, documentation, and presentations of solutions for clients.
• Lead and deliver data & analytics projects across a variety of clients.
• Support business generation and bid development for data & analytics opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and best practice and promote these through the team.
• Actively mentor and develop others in the team and inspire them through commitment and enthusiasm.
• Foster and demonstrate an inclusive team culture focusing on service excellence and exceptional performance.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of T&Ts documentation and processes.

Requirements

Skills, Experience, & Qualifications

• DV Cleared with significant experience of working in defence & government environments.
• A proven track record in designing and delivering solutions utilising Power Platform, including Power BI and Power Apps.
• Ability to lead architectural engagements, either directly or as part of a larger programme of work and take ownership for the successful delivery of customer value within budget, schedule, and scope.
• Able to concisely and articulately present to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A solid understanding of key processes in the delivery cycle including Agile and DevOps
• Experience in providing guidance to customers on their digital journey and able to establish long-term trusted advisor role.
• Able to contribute to RFI/RFP requests and design & deliver innovative Proof of Concepts for customers.
• Ability to lead best-practices for the consultancy resulting in standardised engagement models and repeatable ways-of-working.
• Experience delivering multiple solutions using best practices in Governance, Architecture, Data Modelling, ETL, Data Lakes, Data Warehousing, Master Data, and BI.

Desirable:

• Production of Data standards and Metadata management frameworks
• Produce, maintain, and update relevant data models. Reverse-engineer data models from a live system
• Analysis/requirements gathering, solution design, and implementation of data platform and Azure technologies
• Experience in collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams, including software engineers, DevOps and infrastructure teams, data scientists etc.
• Exposure to Machine Learning, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Cosmos, Search, Cognitive Services, Azure Databricks and ADX would be advantageous.