Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in-house agency and master vendor for KBR who are a leading global engineering, construction, and services company.
KBR support the hydrocarbon and government services markets on six continents. Serving their customers through diverse business units, KBR offer challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects.
KBR are looking to recruit a Data Lead on a 24 month contract based in Leatherhead, Surrey.
On Offer:
1. Competitive hourly pay rate
2. Outside IR35, highly likely so engagement through a LLC is permitted
3. Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days from home
4. Long term contract assignment
Role Overview
KBR’s latest Viaverse was deployed for the Department of Work & Pensions Estates (DWP-E) to deliver the ‘Integrator2’ platform in May 2022. This platform acts as the ‘single source of truth’ for DWP Estates teams in ensuring consistent, performant and efficient lifecycle management of assets across their public-facing and back-office sites. The platform manages real time transactional flows to DWP Estates supply chain partners and delivers reliable management information and insight to DWP Estate stakeholders.
DWP-E have embarked on a major programme of re-procurement of the asset management services delivered from the KBR ‘Integrator2’ platform – this is known as the ‘Workplace Services Programme’ or ‘WPS’. Current services have been redesigned and packaged into six new service lots (Total Facilities Management, Manned Guarding, Security Contact Centre, Fire Risk Assessment, Water Risk Assessment, Asbestos Risk Assessment), each of which will constitute a project to redesign the current platform and a scale transition of current service to new service – each project will consist of design, build, test, transition and hypercare, and is likely to include significant data transition and operational change for the client. The Programme has already been initiated, has a series of staggered operational go lives and ‘hypercare periods’, and is expected to run to a transition to BAU milestone around November 2025
Led by the senior team that mobilised the platform, KBR are constructing a multi-disciplinary technology team to deliver KBR’s critical path within the DWP WPS Programme. This is an opportunity to join a large-scale KBR EI programme delivering significant benefit to a large public sector department undertaking one of the largest current procurements in the public sector.
Responsibilities
5. Identify, create and maintain Data Dictionary required to deliver new requirements, ensuring this is mapped to ‘as-is’ Data Dictionary to enable data migration and transition planning to be executed.
6. Review contractual specifications, detailed business requirements and functional requirements to provide a change/update/remove gap analysis of current vs new
7. Coordinate new data sources with client counterpart(s) ensuring, these are stored and utilised consistent with the security marking and/or commercial sensitivity (for contractual data sets such as Schedules of Rates) and available to development team.
8. Advise and assist in creating of synthetic data for development and testing if actual data sets not available or not appropriate for the environment
9. Identify, create and lead required governance and stakeholder relationships required to ensure data used in development and testing is accurate, appropriate and handled correctly.
10. Support Senior Transition Manager and Technical Project Manager in ensuring detailed transition planning has clear, realistic and achievable data migration and data transition tasks and milestones to support operational go lives, exit of suppliers and exit of hypercare (priority will be the transition of open work orders from incumbent to new suppliers, requiring planning, multi-organisational governance and reconciliation)
11. Support Senior Transition Manager in working directly with client in planning operational transition, ensuring client make appropriate decisions required to effect the transition (including but not limited to handling of open work orders, invoicing of part-complete or incomplete work orders by exiting incumbent)
12. Prepare all required data for transition to live
13. Take the lead in any required hypercare data reconciliation exercises.
14. Support Project Coordinator and Technical PM in identifying data risk, issues and assumptions for RAID log.
15. Support Technical PM in Quality Gateway management, including providing any data products required for the gateway assessments.
Experience
16. Working in a Programme environment involve data migration and transition, or a project where data is being collated, refined, and remodelled in preparation for a similar but distinct environment, taking existing data and cleansing and restructuring for migration from one IT platform to another.
17. Data used in CAFM software and/or delivering FM contracts.
18. Working with SQL and MS Excel Pivots/Macros
19. Gathering and presenting analytics, reports, and findings back to internal and external stakeholders
20. Producing materials outlining the transition of data from source to source.
21. Systemised processes/ workflows ensuring there is a clear synergy between data flows and business flows.
22. Responsible for the integrity of the data being put forward to developers for use in varying systems.
23. Leveraging data for business insights and decision-making while ensuring data integrity and security is upheld.
24. Working in fast-paced projects with fixed go-live dates
Technical Skills/Knowledge
25. Intermediate in MS Excel, including working understanding of macros and Pivot tables
26. Basic understanding of SQL a benefit
27. Some experience using Jira KANBAN or other digital KANBAN
28. Good working knowledge of software, integration and hosting technologies (Azure and IaaS virtualized)
NB - To be considered for this position you must have the right to live and work in the UK. be able to complete BPSS Security Clearance.