At a Glance
- Tasks: Own the Microsoft Viva Insights data environment and ensure high-quality organisational data.
- Company: Join Barclays, a leading financial institution focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: 12-month fixed-term contract with competitive pay and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic team environment with excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enabling data-driven decisions that enhance organisational effectiveness.
- Qualifications: Experience in Viva Insights administration and managing complex data environments.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 60000 £ per year.
hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. In this role you will take ownership of the Microsoft Viva Insights data environment, ensuring the delivery of accurate, consistent, and high-quality organisational data within a complex enterprise setting. You will manage data cleansing processes, oversee data ingestion through systems such as Microsoft Admin Centre (MAC) and MODIS, and continuously monitor and improve data quality standards. You will maintain field attributes, ensuring clear definitions and metadata governance, while performing core Viva Insights administration activities, including data uploads, validation, organisational hierarchy configuration, and access management. You will ensure that all data is well‑structured, trusted, and aligned to governance standards, enabling reliable collaboration insights and reporting for senior leadership and HR analytics teams. You will design, manage, and optimise end‑to‑end data pipelines that integrate Viva Insights with employee survey platforms, HR systems, and other enterprise data sources, supporting advanced analytics and strategic programmes. You will collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams, including Organisational Effectiveness, Culture & Behaviour, and Data Science, translating business requirements into robust data solutions. You will implement and maintain governance frameworks, ensuring access controls, data security, and compliance with audit requirements. By enabling seamless access to high‑quality data, you will support stakeholders in generating meaningful insights that drive organisational effectiveness and informed decision‑making.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in Viva Insights administration
- Understanding of the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre
- Experience managing large, complex data environments
- Data management, cleansing, and governance expertise
- Experience with data pipelines and integration across systems
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across technical and business teams
Technical Skills
- Microsoft Viva Insights platform administration
- Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Admin Centre, data flows)
- Python, SQL (Hive/Hue) for data manipulation and analysis
- Experience with Copilot data management concepts and controls
- Data modelling and transformation techniques
Other Desirable Skills
- Experience in HR, People Analytics, or organisational data environments
- Familiarity with survey data integration
- Experience working in global, matrixed organisations
Your role will be located from our Northampton or London office.
Purpose of the role
To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure.
Accountabilities
- Build and maintain data architecture pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
- Design and implementation of data warehouses and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
- Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
- Collaboration with data scientists to build and deploy machine learning models.
