Data Transformation Lead

Salary: £145,600 - 145,600 per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience leading data, BI or reporting transformation programmes from discovery through to implementation and handover.
• Strong practical experience of data governance, data ownership, data quality and information standards.
• Demonstrable experience developing KPI frameworks and establishing consistent definitions and calculation methodologies.
• Strong understanding of data modelling, data integration and reporting architecture.
• Strong Power BI and BI/reporting knowledge, with the ability to provide technical direction as well as challenge solution design.
• Experience working with multiple data sources and identifying quality, duplication and consistency issues.
• Strong programme/workstream management capability with demonstrable ownership of milestones and deliverables.
• Experience of UAT, implementation, adoption and transition into BAU.
• Strong documentation and knowledge-transfer capability.
• Experience working with Facilities Management, workplace, property, asset or built-environment data.
• Experience with IWMS/CAFM platforms.
• Knowledge of Planon.
• Experience working with outsourced FM/service-provider data.
• Experience working within a regulated or security-constrained organisation.
• Experience of Microsoft data technologies and associated BI environments

Responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver the FM Data & Reporting Transformation Programme across Facilities Management.
• Own the transformation from validation of the current position through to data governance, standardisation, technical foundations, reporting implementation, adoption and handover.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the programme against agreed phases, milestones and deliverables.
• Establish and maintain a clear programme plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions and progress reporting.
• Review and validate work already undertaken against the approved programme requirements.
• Coordinate activities across FM functions and ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement throughout delivery.
• Maintain transparent programme documentation, decisions and evidence of delivery.
• Provide regular progress updates and escalate risks, issues or decisions requiring FM leadership intervention.
• Develop and implement an FM-wide data governance framework covering data ownership, stewardship, quality, controls and change management.
• Establish a consistent FM KPI library, including agreed definitions, calculation methodologies, ownership and approval routes.
• Define data quality standards and appropriate validation and reconciliation controls.
• Identify duplication, conflicting definitions and gaps across existing FM reporting.
• Establish appropriate governance for the ongoing creation, amendment and retirement of FM KPIs and reporting.
• Map FM data sources, systems, interfaces and manual dependencies.
• Define the central FM data model and requirements for the appropriate central FM data environment.
• Work with relevant technical specialists to establish integrations, automated data flows and refresh processes where appropriate.
• Coordinate ISS technical resource and other specialist support for defined delivery activities where required.
• Ensure technical solutions remain aligned to FM requirements and relevant organisational information and cyber-security controls.
• Ensure calculation logic and transformations are documented, controlled and capable of being independently understood and maintained.
• Translate FM operational and strategic requirements into consistent reporting solutions.
• Develop and/or oversee development of prioritised FM dashboards and reporting products.
• Ensure reporting supports FM governance meetings, management decision-making and strategic performance requirements.
• Lead validation, reconciliation, UAT and stakeholder acceptance of new reporting products.
• Establish clear documentation, guidance and support arrangements.
• Provide structured knowledge transfer to permanent FM capability throughout the assignment.
• Establish the future BAU ownership and continuous-improvement model.

Technologies:

• CAFM
• Support
• Power BI
• REST
• Security

More:

We are a world class defence organisation offering an initial 12-month subcontractor role as an FM Data Transformation Lead. The position is based in Stevenage, Bolton or Bristol, depending on preference, with a hybrid arrangement of 1 or 2 days per week onsite and the rest working from home. The contract is 37 hours per week, with overtime paid at time and a quarter for hours worked over 37 per week. The role is inside IR35 and sits within FM, with scope across all FM functions, working alongside stakeholders and technical specialists including our maintenance provider, Information Management and Cyber Security where required.

last updated 39 week of 2026