Data Analyst

Job Role: Data Analyst- Digital Transformation Programmes Reporting To: Data & Reporting Lead Location: Burton Upon Trent, hybrid (2x office days per wk) Day Rate: up to £500 per day, Outside IR35 contract Duration: 6months + With respect please no agencies Riviera Travel is a leader in creating exceptional travel experiences, known for its high-quality escorted tours, river cruises, and solo holidays. With a strong heritage and a passion for detail, every journey is carefully designed to deliver memorable moments from start to finish. Joining Riviera means being part of a collaborative and people focused business where your work directly contributes to bringing unforgettable experiences to life for customers across the UK and beyond. Join a major transformation programme that is reshaping how data powers the future of Riviera Travel. This is an opportunity to play a key role in the replacement of Riviera’s core systems used to manage holiday inventory, customer bookings, operational delivery and customer relationships, working as part of a high-profile programme delivering a seamless transition from legacy systems to a modern data environment. If you enjoy solving complex data challenges and want to see your work make a real difference to business operations, this role offers exactly that. What you’ll be doing Working across the Data and Reporting workstream, you will: • Following guiding principles of the Data Migration Strategy • Help facilitate the running of a business facing Data Working Group • Perform data profiling and create tests based on agreed Data Quality Rules • Review existing business data to assess quality, completeness, and consistency • Perform data cleansing/standardisation/conversion and de-duplication prior to migration • Specify, document and perform data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) • Support the creation of a single trusted source for Customer Data within Azure Data Platform • Document the data mapping between old and new systems including Transformation Rules • Design and Build scripts to ensure data is migrated securely, accurately, and auditable • Validate data synch between legacy and new platforms to enable transitional working • Work with business teams and the data working group to validate implemented rules and the cleansed and migrated data • Identify, extract, anonymise, provision and refresh data for consumption in system testing, User Acceptance Testing, end-to-end Business Testing and user training • Ensure outputs are checked and validated before handing over to formal testing • Support testing and reconciliation of migrated data during UAT and go-live • Identification and documentation of data sources for key business reports • Specification and testing of technical measures achieve reporting continuity • Support to the Business to validate the accuracy of reports & MI containing data derived from dual systems during migration period What you’ll bring • Strong experience defining, performing and validating data migration on large-scale IT projects • Proven ability to undertake cleansing exercised, including auditable reconciliation and data enrichment • Hands-on experience with data ETL and Reporting tools such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, SSIS, PowerBI. • Technical capability to perform source data analysis to inform data flow documentation and develop technical requirements for data feed change • Technical skills to analyse and reconcile reporting outputs, identifying sources of discrepancy and diagnosing root • Demonstrable experience of personally defining and performing data migration, validation and assurance activities • Demonstrable experience of working with business-critical and confidential data in small team environments with direct responsibility for achieving milestones (TCQ) • Demonstrable experience of effective working and collaborative delivery in matrix-managed programme teams. • Good understanding of data structures, formats, and mapping techniques • Experience working with legacy systems and modern cloud-based platforms • Attention to detail and production clear documentation and audit trails for data migration activities • Familiarity with data security and compliance requirements • Familiarity with development & test management tools e.g. (Azure DevOps, Jira) • Excellent communication skills and ability to work with both technical and business teams • Experience in the travel or booking systems domain (preferred but not essential) • Degree or equivalent qualification in data management, IT, or a related field (preferred) Why join Riviera Travel You will be part of a collaborative transformation programme where your work directly supports the delivery of critical systems used across the business. This is a chance to work on a programme with real scale, complexity and visibility, alongside teams who are passionate about delivering high quality outcomes.