Open Data Lead

1 week ago

Falmer, United Kingdom Southern Water Full time

Closing Date

2024-12-01

Job Title: Open Data Lead

Location: Durrington (Worthing) Hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours/ week

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact, and reducing our carbon footprint

This is an exciting role: to be part of a new team in relation to Open data and the Stream initiative, where data will be available for public access in the water industry. This position will take the lead on this; owning the process of data gathering from stakeholders, ensuring data is correct and made available as per regulations.

You do not need to be highly technical for this role, but you will need an awareness and passion for Data, analytics and innovation and their uses, as well as excellent stakeholder management skills, attention to detail and experience of working in a regulated environment.

We’re at the start of a huge transformation in how we manage and use data to drive efficient and effective outcomes in a host of key areas, delivering improvements for our internal and external stakeholders. You will be implementing our open data strategy and delivering benefit through new initiatives, such as developing a data lab innovation approach and solutions that will leverage our datasets at scale in a consumable format and location.

Job Overview

You will be ensuring that the data we publish is within regulatory requirements, by liaising with stakeholders across the business as well as your team of Software & Data Engineers and wider team of Data Scientists to ensure the data and analytics is published accurately and within regulations. You will be the owner of this content.

Day to day, you’ll be responsible for:

Working with external regulators and internal stakeholders to ensure data is correct and available for public use Ensure internal business stakeholders sign off the use of their data Attend regulatory meetings Define and manage the implementation of a data policy Remain accountable for the data delivered Managing a small team, including a Software Engineer and a Data Engineer (with potential to grow the team in the future) Drive forward plans to create a ‘Data Lab’; helping the business change the way they look and use data to understand problem areas and decision making Triage and prepare datasets for publication

About You

To be right for this role, you will have worked in an enterprise, highly regulated setting, ideally within a Data team, so you have a good understanding of data. You will have some management experience and the ability to form strong business working relationships at all levels. You will have the ‘get up and go’ to drive ideas forward with the persuasion skills to get ideas off the ground. You will be excited and passionate about Data and bring that enthusiasm to the table.

To be suitable you will have:

An understanding of high-level concepts Broad understanding of advanced data analytics and exploratory analysis Excellent communication, persuasion, and collaboration skills Established experience in a senior level role Ability to take accountability for your actions and decisions at a senior level Experience of working with regulators and/ or third parties Experience of stakeholder management at a senior level Ability to build trust and gravitas with senior leaders Compliance or regulatory experience Ability to work with both technical and non-technical people Excellent ‘people person’ Experience of delivering regulatory compliance and policies Motivation to drive innovation and change in delivery, insight and process

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington (Worthing) office and home (normally 2 days in the office, 3 from home)

Benefits include:

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution

• 25 days annual leave

• Life assurance equal to 4x salary

• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)

• Health Cash Plan

• Full funded eye tests

• Two paid volunteering days a year

• Occupational health service

• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers

• Digital GP service

• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications

• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options

• Cycle to work scheme

Join our Data team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement:

Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.

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