Tooling Lead

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading complex enterprise technology or data management implementations.
• Strong delivery management experience across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders, vendors and third-party implementation partners.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, metadata management, MDM and data quality.
• Hands-on delivery or implementation experience with Alation and/or Profisee.
• Experience with comparable platforms such as Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Ataccama or similar would also be highly relevant.
• Strong Agile delivery experience, including backlogs, sprints, dependencies and prioritisation.
• Excellent risk, issue, dependency and stakeholder management skills.
• An understanding of enterprise data architecture, cloud platforms and data transformation programmes.
• Strong communication, leadership, facilitation and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities:

• Take the lead across the full delivery lifecycle, from planning and mobilisation through implementation, testing, go-live and transition into BAU.
• Own delivery plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, resources and release schedules for Alation and Profisee.
• Lead Agile delivery teams, including backlog management, sprint planning, prioritisation and delivery tracking.
• Act as the key interface between business stakeholders, data governance, technology teams, vendors and implementation partners.
• Provide technical oversight across platform configuration, metadata onboarding, MDM deployment, integrations, testing and go-live.
• Run workshops, governance forums and steering meetings to drive decisions and remove blockers.
• Manage RAID, risks, issues, dependencies and escalations, ensuring delivery stays on track.
• Produce clear delivery reporting, dashboards and executive-level updates.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, governance, security and operational readiness standards.
• Support the transition into BAU through knowledge transfer, service readiness and support model definition.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Informatica
• Support
• Security
• DevOps

More:

We are hiring for a Tooling Lead - Alation & Profisee on a 6 month rolling contract, paying £515 per day inside IR35. The role is based in London Bishopsgate or Horsham with a hybrid working arrangement of 2 days per week in the office. This is a high-impact opportunity within a major enterprise data programme for a leading Digital Transformation Organisation, where we bring together business teams, technology functions, vendors and implementation partners to deliver complex tooling programmes successfully. A BPSS requirement is stated for this role.

last updated 35 week of 2026