Technical Data Design & Assurance Specialist

Location: Preston - (Hybrid Model) - from 1 day a week to 1/2 days a month on offer as flexible working arrangements, We are looking for a Technical Data Design & Assurance Specialist to join our client's Data and Analytics team, working across a range of technologies. The ideal candidate will support their architects and will be responsible for ensuring that data products and associated services are built, developed, and used in line with their standards. Previous experience within a development from is key.

· Reviewing and approving the technical design of new data products, ensuring that these designs align to defined standards and best practice

· Ensuring that developers build in line with the approved technical design, and playing a part in pre-deployment checks

· Being able to advise developers on application of standards against specific project requirements

· Reviewing technical documentation for completeness and accuracy

· Engaging with developers to align existing solutions to enhanced standards without compromising ongoing delivery

· You will be able to demonstrate a mature understanding of best practice in analytical data products and/or data pipelines

· You can demonstrate that you have experience in influencing developers where technical designs are suboptimal

· A desire to adopt lower risk technical solutions, and prior experience, either in a Data Warehouse, visualisation layer, or other similar technological environment, to be able to understand relative risk levels

· You will have a good track record in working with a wide variety of Business datasets

· Familiarity with or willingness to learn a range of toolsets such as SQL, SSIS, Alteryx & Tableau to facilitate integration between the Data Warehouse and analysis and visualisation layers and to support cross-skilling within the team

If you are seeking a role where you can use your data development experience to support product design and deployment, then this is the role for you.

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