Data Engineer/ Data Management Lead

Smartedge’s Client is looking for an individual to help with their Data Engineer/ Data Management Lead @ Horsham, UK (Hybrid Working) Skills: Data Management |Data Governance | MDM |Alation & Profisee Role Summary The Technical Tooling Lead will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery and rollout of Alation and Profisee. The role combines programme leadership, delivery management, stakeholder engagement, and technical oversight to ensure successful implementation, adoption, and operationalisation of data management capabilities. The individual will act as the primary point of coordination between business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and implementation partners. Key Responsibilities Delivery Leadership & Planning Lead the planning, estimation, resourcing, and execution of Alation and Profisee implementation activities. Develop and maintain delivery roadmaps, project plans, milestones, dependencies, and release schedules. Ensure alignment of delivery activities with business objectives, governance requirements, and programme timelines. Stakeholder Management & Governance Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, data governance teams, technology teams, vendors, and implementation partners. Facilitate workshops, steering committees, and governance forums to drive decision-making and issue resolution. Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure effective communication throughout the delivery lifecycle. Agile Delivery Management Lead Agile delivery teams, managing backlogs, sprint planning, prioritisation, dependency management, and delivery tracking. Monitor progress against plans and proactively manage risks, issues, and impediments. Ensure delivery outcomes meet agreed scope, quality, timeline, and budget objectives. Reporting, Risk & Escalation Management Produce regular status reports, dashboards, RAID logs, and executive-level updates. Identify, assess, and manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies. Escalate critical decisions and blockers appropriately, ensuring timely resolution and mitigation. Technical Oversight & Tool Enablement Provide oversight of Alation and Profisee implementation activities, including platform configuration, metadata onboarding, MDM deployment, integration, testing, and go-live planning. Ensure adherence to architecture standards, implementation best practices, and operational readiness requirements. Support transition to BAU teams, including knowledge transfer, support models, and service readiness planning. Desired Skills & Experience Proven experience leading complex technology or data management implementations in enterprise environments. Experience managing cross-functional teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders. Excellent planning, estimation, reporting, risk management, and communication skills. Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, master data management (MDM), and data quality concepts. Experience leading the rollout or implementation of data management tools such as Alation, Profisee, Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Ataccama, or similar platforms is highly desirable. Familiarity with enterprise data architectures, cloud platforms, and data transformation programmes is advantageous. Key Attributes Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities. Ability to balance strategic objectives with hands-on delivery oversight. Proven track record of driving successful outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills. If this sounds like a role you would be interested in or if you know someone in this field. Connect with me or email me at pavitra.b@smartedgesolutions.co.uk Alternatively, you can call me on Tel: +44(0)203 500 2108.