Head of Data Strategy, Design and Control

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Job description

About us

More than half the UK working population relies 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 £2trillion 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 we offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic Network, Time to Change Champions (mental health), 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.

We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

Role

As Head of Data Strategy, Design and Control, you will inform and develop capabilities to empower the transformation of TPR into a data enabled regulator. Our data team is growing in size and capability. It includes six teams of around 30 data specialists in domains across the full spectrum of data activity.

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 have laid down the foundations of a modern data architecture within Microsoft Cloud (Azure) and need a skilled and enthusiastic person to join the senior leadership team in Data Services. You will have the ability to help the organisation see the strategic direction and deliver against our data strategy.

This is an exciting time to join our growing team. You will play a key role in our continuing journey of data-enabled design transformation, making data the key enabler in our mission to put the savers at the heart of everything we do.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for the following duties.

Strategic direction:

• Provide the strategic direction for data strategy, data architecture, quality and Knowledge and Information Management (KIM)
• Providing the framework for data to ensure we develop all necessary policies, best practice and manage risk
• Lead the design and implementation and evolution of our data strategy in collaboration with the organisation over the next one to three years.

Leadership:

• Lead and develop data governance, data quality, data architecture and KIM teams
• Provide coaching/mentorship ensuring teams have the skills and resource to work across platforms and guide to the business
• Championing data design, quality and control across TPR ensuring that our data is designed to meet user needs, complies with relevant legislation and best practice, standards, and is measured

Stakeholder management:

• Partnering with the business to ensure data is at the core of what we do
• Develop and nurture relationships across public and private sectors to ensure that our data capabilities enable the flow of data

Innovation:

• Leading the design and implementation of data across areas including reference and master data, data modelling and architecture, data quality, metadata, data standardisation, data Linking, data sharing and Knowledge and information management
• Keeping yourself and your team up to date with evolving data and technology trends

Operations and planning:

• Lead on short to medium term planning
• Oversee operational processes in your areas, implementing monitoring and alerting practices to ensure service reliability

Essential Criteria:

• Extensive specialist knowledge and ability to provide leadership on all aspects of the enterprise data management life cycle, and across disciplines
• Extensive knowledge and experience in improving the quality of data and enabling organisations and systems to interoperate through data architecture
• In-depth understanding of how to establish a full data life cycle for an organisation for data acquisitions and data collections for secondary use purposes
• Excellent stakeholder management skills to collaborate with and engage with business data owners/stakeholders
• Proven ability to collaborate external stakeholders
• Demonstrable specialist understanding of the overall data landscape, evolving requirements, emerging risks, technology and trends and the ability to ensure delivery against our data strategy
• Experience in setting and overseeing system-wide direction on data architecture standards, such as for information, reference data and interoperability

Person Specification:

• Excellent communication and listening skills across all levels of business
• People and performance management skills
• Belief in being a visible and accessible role model
• Committed to creating a positive, empowered and inclusive culture
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Critical thinking
• Creative and innovative approach

Salary and Benefits

As well as a salary between £84,011 and £101,513, we offer:

• Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pension's 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

How to apply

To apply please email via the button below quoting role reference number 188629 along with:

• a statement no longer than 300 words, describing why you would be a suitable candidate and how your experience and skills meet our essential criteria
• a copy of your CV

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.

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).

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.

Closing date: 27 October 2024.

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