technical specialist Cardiff, Wales
Job description
· Location: Flexible
· Grade & Salary: £47,408 – £52,359 (Grade 8)
· Post number: 203529
· Type of contract: Permanent
· Work pattern: Full Time, 37 hours per week (Part Time, Annualised Hours, Compressed Hours or Term Time Working considered - discussions at interview stage welcome)
· Closing date: 20 June 2023
Role Purpose
NRW is an evidence-based and data rich organisation. Data drives everything we do and NRW’s broad remit means we are responsible for a complex and diverse range of environmental data and information.
This post is NRW’s expert strategic and professional lead for enterprise data management. The post reports directly to our Manager for Knowledge and Information Management.
The post plays a critical role in steering our ambition to be a data driven organisation, providing integrated data services, and responding to the growing volume and complexity of data assets, services, and user needs. It operates at the exciting interface between technology, digital and the business, enabling our data to benefit both stakeholder needs and corporate/environmental outcomes.
The post works with colleagues across NRW functions to ensure that we offer open data services in a way that enables NRW to achieve the integrated data requirements and opportunities set out in the Environment (Wales) Act, the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act and the challenges of the nature, climate, and pollution crises. It is also the NRW professional lead for engagement with data professions and external partners.
We are looking for someone who is visionary and outward looking, identifying developments that may be a benefit or threat to continued successful data management in NRW.
Qualifications and Skills
Knowledge and experience of the following:
1. Proven ability to develop and deliver corporate strategy or improvements. Strong analytic, visualisation and communication skills with the ability to translate business requirements using analysis methods and requirements gathering.
2. Experience of programme or project management with a proven ability to deliver complex, organisation wide, improvements; preferably in a distributed organisation using matrix management.
3. Demonstrable experience of working in partnership and co-delivery, using influencing skills and effective communication to work with internal and external partners.
4. Technical specialist skills and knowledge in enterprise data management e.g., enterprise data management, lifecycle management, data modelling, data architecture, data analytics, data science, data transformation, infographics, visualisation, warehousing, integrity management, master data management and metadata.
5. Knowledge of relevant EU and domestic, information and data management legislation and policy areas affecting the application of data management in NRW (e.g., open data, linked data, open source, crowd sourcing).
6. Professional qualification and membership of a relevant environmental, IT or data management profession (or commitment to obtain this). Degree or equivalent, or able to demonstrate comparable technical know-how, in a relevant subject.
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Salary: £47,408.00-£52,359.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Language training provided
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cardiff
Reference ID: 203529
About Natural Resources Wales
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: Unknown
Type: Government
Website: naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
