• Starting salary of £62,900
• 27% pension
• Hybrid/WFH options available
• Generous annual leave
• Opportunity to hold the "Gold Standard' accreditation which amounts to an extra £5,000 (non-pensionable).

Key responsibilities:
The Head of BI & Data will be integral to helping deliver the Agency's data strategy to deliver high quality, standardised, easily accessible data systems across all functions that enable data flows across business processes. Data will be clearly owned, managed and maintained, it will be secure and assured, and will be created with the purpose of enabling earlier, better decisions to drive value for money.
You will oversee data governance and quality, information management, data maturity, data analytics, data architecture, data management, data integration and data engineering and platforms. You will have 3 direct reports in areas of Data Governance, Data Platforms & Integrations and Data Analytics, also supporting a wider team of professionals including Data Engineers, Data Architects and Data developers.

The candidate will:

• Support the delivery of GPA's Information & Data Strategy
• Be responsible for the definition of the organisation's data strategy
• Champion data architecture across GPA
• Set the standards and ways of working for the data architecture community
• Oversee the design of multiple data models and have a broad understanding of how each model fulfils the needs of the business
• Provide advice to project teams and oversee the management of the full data product life cycle
• Be responsible for ensuring that GPA's systems are designed in accordance with the data architecture

• Data operations & integration - Support the wider team that will provide all sourcing, extraction, reference, and onboarding of key data into the data warehouse and between source systems.
• Data analysis and synthesis - lead on the vision to embed new analytics initiatives that enhance user experience and decision making and be actively involved in the delivery.
• Data governance and quality - provide strategic direction and support to focus on delivering the highest quality data in a timely manner, supported by governance processes including data security.
• Data platforms - able to support and understand the operations of AWS Redshift Data Warehouse as well as other industry leading data platforms to support master data management, governance, architecture and quality.
• Data standards - strong understanding of standards across Government and or within similar sectors and experience of adoption and integration.
• Data architecture & integration - strong understanding of data integration between systems, transactional and reference data, and leading on the design and mapping.
• Datamodelling and engineering - able to produce data models and understand where to use different types of data models. Understands different tools and is able to compare between different data models.
• Programming and build (data engineering) - be able to lead by example and design, write and iterate code to support data operations. Understanding of security, accessibility and version control. Can use a range of coding tools and languages.
• Business engagement - facilitate interactions between business divisions to optimize data usage and optimisation.
• Governance and reporting - Lead on data forums, working groups and steering groups as well as supporting the creation of Executive level reporting.

• Data Integration - ETL design & development
• Data Engineering - Implementation of performant models within an AWS and Azure data warehouse environment
• Datamodelling - Conceptual, logical and physical Datamodelling
• Strong experience of Data Governance & Quality
• Strong understanding of Data Architecture & Integration
• Strong experience of data analytics and Business Intelligence platforms