Data Administrator

**What's involved with this role**:
**Interim Data Administrator - ICT Services**

**Job Ref: W Yorkshire BL TCL 364206**

**Pay Rate: £21.23 per hour PAYE**

**Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours**

**Role Length: This opening assignment is for 9-10 months**

**City: Wakefield, West Yorkshire**

**Hybrid working**

The purpose of the role is to provide expert guidance on database creation, monitoring and maintenance ensuring database recoverability, integrity, security, availability and performance and to lead the identification, assessment and implementation of new and upgraded database software.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead by example and behave in line with the Police Code of Ethics ensuring that the force values and behavioural expectations are clearly understood and considered by managers, officers and staff in their decision making and actions; reinforcing and influencing them through all interactions and processes.
- Provide analysis and direction for Digital Policing support teams on effective database monitoring, management and optimisation and when required assist with the investigation of problems, identifying root causes and wherever possible developing automated solutions.
- Create and maintain up-to-date records of database utilisation and provide detailed documentation of database configurations to help drive down capital and expenditure cost of database provision.
- Provide expert advice to all members of the Digital Policing Directorate and suppliers regarding the implications of database software upgrades and coordinate upgrade implementation activities.
- Provide advice on guidance for database security standards by researching and defining those standards, ensuring that all operational procedures adhere to them and that new developments incorporate them. Identify, highlight and communicate database security issues proactively when identified working with Digital Infrastructure resources.
- Lead and develop on Database project delivery advising on appropriate hardware specification and configuration including disaster recovery provision and provide new solutions detailed documentation to support handover into a production environment.
- Maintain data standards, including adherence to the Data Protection Act and supporting database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata)
- Maintain relevant data access permissions and privileges to improve data security and cyber readiness
- Develop, maintain and manage database and testing back-up and recovery plans and capacity management plans
- Ensure that Force data is preserved from accidental or malicious loss by ensuring appropriate backups and Disaster recovery plans are maintained and regularly tested.
- Provide expert input and knowledge on the process of using data to support Business Intelligence and modern Data Analytics to support policing and business activities.

**Qualifications**:
**Skills & Experience**:

- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to manage relational databases on a large scale computer infrastructure with experience of database creation, performance tuning and migration between differing database versions.
- Demonstrated ability and experience of all aspects of database administration, backup and recovery and capacity planning.
- Demonstrated ability and experience of data warehouse creation to support business analytics.
- Have the ability or is working towards a recognised certification track on database technologies such as with Oracle or SQL.
- Clear understanding of information management, data protection principles and policy and data security issues and risks.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of operation systems, environments and data query languages.

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.**

**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.**

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**Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please