Data & Analytics Manager Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)Salary: £90,000 + benefits + bonusThe OpportunityA large, complex organisation operating in a highly regulated environment is seeking a senior-level data and analytics professional to play a pivotal role in the evolution of its enterprise data capability. This is not a traditional people-management or hands-on engineering role. Instead, you’ll act as a technical authority and trusted partner to the business, ensuring data solutions are well-designed, robust, and genuinely support decision-making at scale.Why This Role Stands Out
- A senior, influence-led role with no direct line management
- High exposure to leadership across technology and business functions
- Ownership of delivery quality across partners, vendors, and internal teams
- Balance of technical credibility and business-facing engagement
- Opportunity to shape and mature a modern, cloud-based data ecosystem
- Meaningful involvement in ongoing data and analytics transformation
What You’ll Be Doing
- Act as a technical design authority across enterprise data and analytics solutions
- Oversee and challenge delivery from external partners and consultancies
- Translate business requirements into well-structured analytical and reporting solutions
- Ensure strong design principles across:
- Data models and analytical layers
- Data pipelines and transformation processes
- Reporting and insight delivery
- Promote best practices in data architecture, governance, and development standards
- Bridge the gap between technical teams and senior business stakeholders
- Support and evolve cloud-native data platforms and warehouse / lakehouse approaches
- Contribute to strategic initiatives focused on improving data-driven decision-making
Team & Environment
- Reporting into a senior data leader
- Lean internal data function supported by external delivery partners
- Collaborative, outcome-focused culture
- Environment where technical judgement and stakeholder influence matter more than hierarchy
What They’re Looking ForCore Experience
- Strong background in modern, cloud-based data and analytics environments
- Experience designing or overseeing enterprise data platforms and analytical solutions
- Good understanding of contemporary data architectures (e.g. warehouse, lakehouse, layered models)
- Comfortable working alongside and challenging third-party delivery teams
- Proven ability to operate as a senior technical voice without direct management responsibility
- Confident communicator, able to engage credibly with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders
Profile Fit
- A technically credible data professional who enjoys being close to delivery
- Comfortable balancing governance, design, and pragmatic execution
- Able to influence outcomes through expertise rather than authority
- Thrives in complex, highly visible environments
Nice to Have
- Exposure to regulated or data-intensive industries (e.g. financial services, insurance, telecoms)
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale reporting and analytics platforms
If you have the above and arre lookingfor a new role where you can operate at the intersection of technology, analytics, and business change, with strong visibility across senior stakeholders then PLEASE APPLY NOW FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION!!!