Tooling Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading complex technology, data, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leaders, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Experience delivering or implementing data management platforms such as Alation, Profisee, Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Ataccama, or similar enterprise tooling.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, master data management (MDM), and data quality.
• Excellent planning, reporting, risk management, and programme delivery skills.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
• Desirable: experience with enterprise data architecture and cloud platforms.
• Desirable: experience delivering large-scale data transformation programmes.
• Desirable: knowledge of operational readiness and service transition activities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, resourcing, and delivery of Alation and Profisee implementations.
• Develop and manage project plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and release schedules.
• Ensure delivery aligns with business objectives, governance requirements, and programme timelines.
• Act as the key point of contact between business stakeholders, data teams, technology teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Facilitate workshops, governance forums, and steering committees.
• Drive decision-making, manage expectations, and maintain strong stakeholder engagement.
• Lead delivery teams through backlog management, sprint planning, prioritisation, and dependency management.
• Track progress and proactively manage risks, issues, and blockers.
• Ensure delivery meets agreed scope, quality, budget, and timeline objectives.
• Oversee platform configuration, metadata onboarding, MDM implementation, integration activities, testing, and go-live planning.
• Ensure adherence to architecture standards, best practices, and operational readiness requirements.
• Support transition into BAU, including knowledge transfer and support model establishment.
• Produce executive reporting, status updates, RAID logs, and delivery dashboards.
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where required to maintain delivery momentum.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Informatica
• Support
• DevOps

More:

We are hiring for a Technical Tooling Lead role based in London, UK, with hybrid working of 3 days per week onsite. This is an inside IR35 contract paying £500.00 - £550.00 per day. We are looking for someone to drive the end-to-end implementation and rollout of Alation and Profisee within a major enterprise data transformation programme. This is a highly visible role combining programme leadership, stakeholder management, and technical oversight across business, technology, data governance, and vendor teams. We are seeking a strong leader who can balance strategic programme objectives with hands-on delivery oversight and thrive in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

last updated 35 week of 2026