At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the delivery of data products and pipelines, ensuring high-quality outcomes.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company focused on innovative HR data solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible working hours, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Fast-paced role with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by connecting cutting-edge data technologies in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in HR data delivery and strong stakeholder management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
As a HR Data Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of data products, pipelines, and reporting solutions across multiple teams. This role will be accountable for connecting data from the new Oracle HCM Cloud to the new AWS Snowflake solution and unifying the data layer between legacy and new HRIS system feed to the data warehouse. The role ensures high-quality, timely, and governed delivery of data initiatives, working across engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders. You will lead delivery planning, manage dependencies, and ensure alignment between technical teams and business priorities, with a strong focus on delivery practices and data governance.
Shifts: Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week)
Experience and Skills Required:
- Essential: Delivery in the technical data HR domain
- Domain Knowledge – HR data and data warehousing solutions
- Experience delivering HR Data / People Analytics
- Experience working with HR systems data (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM or similar)
- Strong experience in data delivery / data project management roles
- Strong stakeholder management, especially with HR and People teams
- Proven experience delivering data platforms, pipelines, or BI solutions
- Experience managing multiple workstreams and dependencies
Desirable:
- Exposure to AWS Snowflake
- Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Understanding of ETL tools
- Experience with data governance frameworks
- Knowledge of BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
- Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum / Kanban)
Key Behaviours:
- Strong ownership and accountability for delivery outcomes
- Structured and organised approach to planning and execution
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, changing environments
- Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
Responsibilities:
- Delivery Leadership: Lead end-to-end delivery of data initiatives (ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, dashboards, reporting products)
- Own delivery plans, milestones, RAID logs, and dependencies across multiple squads
- Ensure on-time, in-scope delivery of data products aligned to business priorities
- Stakeholder Management: Act as primary interface between technical teams and business stakeholders
- Translate business requirements into actionable delivery plans
- Manage expectations across senior stakeholders, product owners, and engineering teams
- Governance: Ensure adherence to SDLC, data governance, and change control processes
- Maintain documentation standards for data assets and pipelines
- Technical Coordination: Work closely with Data Engineers, BI Developers, and Data Scientists
- Oversee delivery of data pipelines (e.g., SQL, Python, cloud platforms like Azure/AWS/GCP)
- Support data architecture alignment and best practices
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