Data Manager

Data Manager (Governance) - £450 per day Globally renowned ecommerce travel company require a Data Governance Lead. They are currently seeking a curious and enthusiastic Data Manager to join their impactful Data Governance team to support the vertical growth of Cars. The team is passionate about helping people travel, embracing challenges and change. Role Overview: In this role, a Data Manager combines technical knowledge, business insight, and expert communication to provide critical information about data systems. This position focuses on supporting business needs with high-quality data through monitoring, issue detection, impact quantification, end-to-end data corrections, standardization, and architectural optimization Key Job Responsibilities and Duties: Automate and implement Data Quality checks proactively to detect and measure DQ. Identify pain points, and propose/create automated processes/reports to accelerate analysis and root cause identification. Analyze and profile data to detect priority issues and investigate resolutions; compile and present analysis (including impact quantification) to gain stakeholder attention and prioritization. Ensure Data Quality processes are followed, engaging alignment, accountability, and urgency for end-to-end data corrections. Understand business priorities and cultivate a business-purpose/data-driven mindset within engineering/data teams. Guide improvements and issue mitigation in the end-to-end (e2e) flow (points of failure, data modeling). Ensure regulatory, audit & policy requirements are met within the Cars domain. Understand pros and cons of different teams involved and support decision-making. Propose and implement improvements on standards used in different teams (e.g., MDM, data modeling standards). Conduct research, surveys, and interviews to understand business and their priorities to support subjective data quality assessment (NPS). Role Qualifications and Requirements (Essential): Ability to write complex logic using SQL, Python, or similar languages for data analysis. Experience profiling data or performing exploratory data analysis. Skilled with Data Visualization tools such as Tableau or PowerBI. Experience working on Data Governance, lifecycle management processes. Proficient in working within an Agile product-based organization with good organizational and task management skills. Ability to articulate the difference between a Data Warehouse and a Data Lake and elaborate on different technologies for both. Experience working with ETL, data workflows, and data models – capable of getting technical with engineers. Strong communication skills – able to communicate with senior managers across disciplines about Data Governance & quality principles & topics. Good stakeholder management, collaboration, and influencing skills – able to deliver facts concisely and impactfully. Highly analytical and methodical in problem-solving, with a track record of documenting and presenting complex data analysis to diverse audiences. Clear sense of ownership and ability to deliver and maintain the highest quality solutions. This contract offers £425 per day for an initial 6 month contract, inside of IR35. 2 days a week in Manchester are requires.