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Defence Lead - Data and Analytics (SC / DV Cleared)

Turner & Townsend
Bristol
3 months ago
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Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

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.

Qualifications

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.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at 

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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