Data Quality & Requirements Lead

Our Data, Digital and Technology vision is to be a catalyst for pensions innovation and regulatory effectiveness. We’re using digital, data, and technology to revolutionise pension regulation, making it more efficient, secure, transparent, and customer-centred.
Our data team has accountability for the data estate and is responsible for the organisation’s approach to data. We're data-enabled, not data-driven: we work with engineers, product managers, and other disciplines to understand how data can best support the needs of the organisation and ultimately savers.
We are on a fast-paced journey, and in recent years TPR has gone through significant technological and business change, including having fully migrated to Microsoft Azure. As part of these new systems, we have an enterprise-scale Azure data platform and engineering capability.
We’re looking for a Data Quality and Requirements Lead to join our Data team. In this role, you’ll take on the responsibility of ensuring that data at TPR is of sufficient quality to meet the growing needs of the business and services that depend on it to drive good outcomes based on our regulatory requirements and data standards.
Your role will involve establishing and leading the continuous improvement of TPR’s business-critical master data, conducting data analysis to identify areas for improvement and change, and spotting opportunities for ongoing quality issue management and entity resolution. This includes validating inbound data at source, matching, and merging of records where applicable to improve consistency and completeness.
Responsibilities
As Data Quality & Requirements Lead, you’ll:
+ Lead the continuous improvement of our business-critical master data, conducting data analysis to identify areas for improvement and change.
+ Lead the continuous improvement of TPR’s business-critical master data, conducting data analysis to identify areas for improvement and change.
+ Manage and prioritise requests from the business for data quality improvements, ensuring alignment with existing and open data standards.
+ Drive delivery of new data quality metrics to provide visibility and ways to assess, identify, and quantify potential problems.
+ Work collaboratively with data leads, service owners, and data SMEs to ensure data is collected, managed, stored, and used to drive value and efficiency.
+ Coordinate data quality activities, including data cleansing, matching, and merging of records to improve consistency and completeness.
+ Liaise and collaborate with other Government agencies to support a joined-up way of working.
+ Champion data quality and support new ways of working across the DDaT community.
+ Retrospective reviews of major updates to TPR products and services to audit adherence with the design requirements.
+ Provide line management support and direction for the Data Quality Team, prioritising activities in line with business objectives and the DDaT strategy.

Experience of end-to-end requirements gathering, data modelling, data collection, validation rules, data transformation and quality control monitoring.
Using ISO approaches to assessing data quality and blending that with recent DAMA initiatives such as Data Quality Action Plans. Practitioner experience of managing data quality including data quality reporting, production of metrics and dashboards.
Practical experience of Master Data and Reference Data Management including entity resolution for legal entity data (Party, Customer).
Proficient in engaging and managing commercial stakeholders to understand and define user needs and outcomes translating complex topics into simple design concepts and actionable deliverables and technical requirements.
Understand end-to-end data flow within and between systems, data dependencies and data quality control processes.
Confident engaging with technical stakeholders, including front end and back end developers, when contributing to solution design to drive quality standards, preserve data lineage and propagate relevant metadata to meet end user needs.
Ability to drive forward initiatives to support delivery of strategic goals.
Experience of leading a team, training and setting the direction using OKRs and SMARTER objectives.
Person Specification
+ Proactive and flexible
+ Ability to prioritise and use initiative
+ Problem solving and analytical skills
+ Communication skills at all levels
+ Leadership skills

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Family Network (Balance), Disability Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic Network, Mental Health Network, and Women’s Network which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play., Current TPR employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

Alongside your salary of £63,446, Pensions Regulator contributes £18,380 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £63,446 and £81,070, we offer:
+ Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
+ discretionary bonus arrangements
+ access to performance related pay progression
+ 25 days annual leave provision
+ flexible working arrangements
+ development opportunities
+ enhanced parental leave arrangements
+ a free employee assistance programme
+ an excellent office location in Brighton, We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
Whilst it is our aim to respond to all applicants, if you have not heard from us within 21 days of the advert closing, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Specific feedback will only be provided if you have attended an interview or assessment.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.