Job ref: 190846
TPR grade: TTD 8 – Specialist
About us
More than half the UK working population rely 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 £2trn 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 offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network 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
Our Data team holds the vision for driving TPR towards becoming more data-enabled, by facilitating effective use and innovative exploitation of high-quality data and promoting data as a strategic business asset.
We’re on a fast-paced journey, and in recent years TPR has been through significant technological and business change, including having fully migrated to Microsoft Azure. As part of this, new systems, including an enterprise scale Azure data platform and engineering capability, have been stood-up. This is an exciting time to join our growing team and play a key role in our continuing journey of digital transformation, towards making data the key enabler in our mission to put the saver at the heart of everything we do.
As Senior Data Quality Analyst, you will work in the Central Data Office and report into the Data Quality Manager who has overall responsibility for data quality at The Pensions Regulator. You’ll support with delivery of data management services to ensure data users have access to timely, shared, and trusted data sufficient to meet the growing demands of all the data users who need it.
You will lead on data quality initiatives to ensure the data TPR collects, stores, and uses is fit for its intended purpose, enables informed decision-making as a data-driven regulator, and can be exploited to its full potential to support innovation, digital transformation and operational efficiency at scale.
Responsibilities
You will:
- be a specialist in data services with proven experience of managing data and change in an operational environment with a focus on continuous improvement of data and data quality, ensuring data is joined-up, accurate, consistent, and managed well in a way that meets the needs of the whole organisation
- manage a team whose responsibilities include Master and Reference Data Management with a focus on improving the quality and consistency of data across the business
- drive improvements and coverage of verified, matched and merged records, with initial focus on the Data Platform, to provide a trusted source of data for decision making, to drive intelligence and analytics and enable efficient business operations
- have proven experience in the assessment of data using a range of tools/methods including data profiling, data quality business rules and root cause analysis and alignment to business outcomes, working collaboratively across business and Digital, Data and Technology teams and across boundaries to solve problems through preventative measures and remedial activity
- deputise for the Data Quality Manager and participate in projects and programmes which may include design and iteration of digital services. With a ‘data quality first’ focus, working with/as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support the collection, creation, and use of data in smarter and more innovate ways to meet the needs of our users, at scale.
- be a champion for data and data quality and help foster a proactive data culture at TPR
Essential and desirable criteria
The Senior Data Quality Analyst will have the following knowledge, skills, and experience:
Essential:
- Qualified data practitioner with demonstrable working experience of data/ data quality management, master data management (MDM) and/or reference data management (RDM), in a business context with experience in using Experian Data Studio (Aperture) or similar.
- You can affectively translate and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders as well as facilitate discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics. You can advocate for the team externally and can manage differing perspectives.
- You will have the excellent stakeholder management skills required to collaborate with and engage with business data owners/stakeholders to continually drive data quality improvements against business objectives and outcomes.
- You can identify issues, make recommendations and ensure that the most appropriate actions are taken to resolve problems as they occur. You can manage and coordinate a team to resolve problems and implement solutions and preventative measures.
- You can work on your own initiative, prioritise your workload and deliverables of the team to meet deadlines to support the business deliver against its objectives.
- Experience of data profiling, practical assessment of data, data quality reporting using a variety of methods/tools coupled with understanding the needs/outcomes for users to tell stories and present clear insight about the data for continuous improvement, decision making and prioritization.
Person specification
- Proactive and flexible.
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Communication skills at all levels.
- Personable and a team player.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £47,050 and £60,106, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions 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 recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 190846 along with:
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period
Current 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.
Due to the nature of this role, we require this position to be appointed on a full-time basis. If you want your application to be considered as part of a job share, please apply with the hours you are available to work.
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 recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.