About Roke Roke is a world-class technology and engineering consultancy. Roke delivers advanced research, development services and products to high profile customers who come to Roke with varied and challenging problems to solve. Our company is growing and the IT department supports its vital work, completed by over 1000 end users, delivered across our National Security, Defence, Futures and Intelligence business units. The unique nature of our business creates complex and often time-critical demands on Roke's central services. Rising to meet complex challenges to build reliable, effective and enduring IT platforms is at the heart of our IT department's strategy. This hands-on role will initiate and lead a new data practice within Roke, responsible for bringing together various repositories of enterprise data within a robust technology architecture and policy framework. You will be involved in the design and implementation of the enterprise data strategy, ensuring the strategy supports the current and future business needs. Your role will involve collaborating with Business and IT stakeholders at all levels to ensure the enterprise data strategy and associated implementation is adding value to the business. Roke has embarked on an transformative programme of investment in our underlying hybrid cloud platform technologies and our enterprise systems. The role holder will play a key part in building out the overall data architecture and quality framework to enable data driven decision-making. As our next Data and BI Manager, you'll be the internal data quality champion, assisting internal stakeholders to develop their key performance indicators (KPIs) as well management information reporting as they require. Responsible for corporate BI, the role-holder will establish a BI & analytics centre of excellence, assuring the quality of corporate BI reporting from the centre and ensuring stakeholders self-reporting is drawn from a single version of the truth. Key requirements A good background within data and analytics architecture design including developing data management practices and data migration plans. Able to advance data and analytics management maturity through defining, assessing & workshopping improvements. Exposure to tools such as PowerBI, Boomi or IFS would be advantageous, but training can be given. Exposure to the sectors Roke operates in or other regulated industriies would be advantageous. Previous experience with business transformation programmes, as this role will play a significant part. Why You Should Join Us We have a competitive salary and access to a number of additional flexible benefits, which will cover Health and Wellbeing, Savings and Protection and Life, Leisure and Entertainment. Roke has a great community of groups with shared interests. These enable people to share ideas and be passionate about tools, technologies and techniques, which interest them. We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative and inclusive. We will consider flexible working arrangements and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs. Security Information Due to the nature of this position, we require you to be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, the candidate should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see (url removed)