Data Modeler in Manchester

Executive Search/Sr.BD Consultant – Bridging Business Goals and Professional Insight

One of our leading utilities clients are seeking a Data Modeller for a 6 to 12 month contract position in Manchester, UK. Must be onsite 3 days a week – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

The Data Modeller is responsible for designing, evolving, and governing Gold-layer domain specific data models that power trusted reporting, analytics, and scalable self‑service use across the organisation.

This role blends deep data modelling expertise with strong analytical skills – translating reporting requirements and business questions into robust, performant, and reusable data structures that balance clarity for reporting with flexibility for ad‑hoc data exploration.

The modeller acts as a critical bridge between Silver-layer data engineering patterns and business-facing consumption, ensuring that the resulting data models are intuitive, consistent, and future‑proof while remaining aligned with enterprise standards and governance.

Key Skills & Experience

• Comfortable working to tight timescales
• Strong experience designing analytics‑ready Gold models within an Azure‑based medallion architecture
• Deep understanding of dimensional modelling concepts (facts, dimensions, grain, conformed dimensions)
• Proven ability to design models that support both operational reporting and exploratory analytics
• Advanced SQL skills for modelling, validation, and performance optimisation
• Experience supporting self‑service BI platforms (e.g. Power BI), including interaction with semantic models
• Understanding of how upstream modelling choices (e.g. Data Vault, Silver transformations) impact Gold design
• Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into clear, reusable data structures
• Experience working in regulated or complex data environments an advantage
• Strong documentation and communication skills, able to explain modelling decisions to technical and non‑technical audiences

Kindly submit your application if you are interested.

Seniority level: Associate

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Information Technology

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