3-month contract SC clearance required ASAP Start £400 p/d Outside IR35 UK-wide, Remote About the role As a member of our Professional Services team, you will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to architect and deliver cutting-edge digital solutions tailored to our clients' unique needs. With a focus on excellence and a passion for pushing boundaries, you will contribute to Olive Jar Digital's mission of catalysing transformative change in the digital landscape. Responsibilities Identify and collaborate with departments (in Government, 3rd and Private Sectors and any comparable global players) that maintain data platforms to understand existing and future plans for but not limited to: Manage and optimise technology platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks). Oversee storage patterns (e.g., data lake, data warehouse, data lakehouse). Support primary use cases such as reporting, analytics, and AI/ML. Work with diverse data sources (e.g., relational, flat files, APIs, streaming). Handle various data formats (structured, semi-structured, unstructured). Utilise tools for data processing (e.g., Python, SQL, Spark, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Dagster, dbt). Manage data volumes and ingestion rates (ad-hoc, monthly, daily, real-time). Implement tooling for defining and sharing metrics with users. Manage tools for collecting, organising, and publishing metadata. Establish processes and tools for monitoring data usage and performance metrics. Enforce least privilege principles through schema, table, column, and row-level access controls. Ensure compliance with data retention policies (e.g., GDPR). Facilitate secure data sharing with external entities (e.g., government departments, agencies, universities). Monitor and improve data quality. Provide onboarding and support for users of the data platform. Use analytics tools (e.g., Jupyter Notebook, RStudio, SQL) to manipulate and analyse data. Utilise data visualisation tools (e.g., Dash, RShiny, PowerBI, Quicksight) for target audiences (e.g., operational, policy, leadership, public). Collaborate with a diverse team of professionals (e.g., data engineering, data analysis, data architecture, data science, ML Ops, analytics engineering, SRE). Work within a team of varying sizes and seniority levels. About Us Olive Jar Digital is one of the UK’s fastest growing, award-winning digital consultancies, championing managed digital delivery services and the provision of expert talent to enhance our client’s teams, satisfying their user needs. We have client in both the public and private sector industries, including local government, NHS and other private sector organisations. Powered by JazzHR