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Job DescriptionAnticipated Contract End Date/Length: December 31, 2026
Work setup: Hybrid (60% office / 40% remote)
Clearance required: BPSS eligibility
Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Technical Tooling Lead to lead the end-to-end delivery and rollout of Alation and Profisee. The role will combine programme leadership, delivery management, stakeholder engagement, and technical oversight to ensure successful implementation, adoption, and operationalisation of data management capabilities.
What you will do:
- 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.
- Align delivery activities with business objectives, governance requirements, and programme timelines.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 to ensure timely resolution and mitigation.
- 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.
- Bring proven experience leading complex technology or data management implementations in enterprise environments.
- Possess experience managing cross-functional teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrate excellent planning, estimation, reporting, risk management, and communication skills.
- Possess strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, master data management (MDM), and data quality concepts.
- Bring experience leading the rollout or implementation of data management tools such as Alation, Profisee, Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Ataccama, or similar platforms.
- Possess familiarity with enterprise data architectures, cloud platforms, and data transformation programmes.
- Demonstrate strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Possess the ability to balance strategic objectives with hands-on delivery oversight.
- Bring a proven track record of driving successful outcomes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Demonstrate excellent communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Be eligible to complete BPSS checks.
Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based, without requiring employer sponsorship.
HelloKindred is committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills, experience, and role-related requirements.
We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
