BDUK Data Manager

Job Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least 2 days a week.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Data Manager

You will be an experienced Data Manager with previous experience managing a team of Analysts. Leading by example you will be hands on with a variety of business analytics activities, predominantly focussed on data reporting and quality, rollout strategy and optimisation across regions.

You will be pivotal to the effective production of short-, medium- and long-term plans – recommending areas of prioritisation and impact assessing strategic changes using geographic Information Systems QGIS, AcrGIS, ESRI,etc and analysis tools such as SQL, FME, Python. 

You’ll receive salary of up to £65k, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Engage key stakeholders across the business to define the BDUK information that they require and define how this should be presented e.g. through existing tableau reporting suite, webmap etc.
• Respond to requests from senior stakeholders that require interrogation of BDUK datasets – identifying which are one off and which should be set up as ongoing reporting.
• Develop and maintain processes for validating data integrity driving quality improvement and fixing inconsistencies.

What you’ll bring to the role

As an experienced Data Manager You’ll also have:

• Experience working with geographic Information Systems QGIS, AcrGIS, ESRI,etc and analysis tools (SQL, FME, Python etc)
• Manage a team of analysts and prioritise work across the different BDUK regions
• Define the key design KPIs that should be tracked through the design process from HLD through LLD and build and produce a monthly BDUK design report.
• Support senior management to develop and provide regular reports supporting short- and long-range strategy for network deployment. Provide analytical results presented in insightful and interesting ways to help the audience understand the concepts presented.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!