Data Management Officer

LEEDS | ASSET MANAGEMENT | COMPETITIVE PACKAGE

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is one of the UK's largest local government pension pools and the largest asset manager outside London and Edinburgh. It is owned by 18 Local Government Pension Scheme partner funds with approximately £120 billion of assets and more than two million members.

As a customer-owned and customer-focused organisation, Border to Coast’s purpose is to make a difference for the Local Government Pension Scheme. Integrity, collaboration and sustainability are at the heart of how the pool works, and it is continuing to invest in its technology, data and innovation capabilities to support long-term strategic ambitions.

Border to Coast is an FCA regulated asset manager with a reputation for taking the long view. Having built its success on disciplined, sustainable investment, the business is now making a significant commitment to the next generation of its data, analytics and AI capability, and this appointment sits at the centre of that programme.

You will provide the operational expertise behind the firm's data management, ensuring data related business requirements are designed, built and deployed in line with the Data Strategy, and supporting the delivery of data governance and business intelligence across the business, ensuring every solution satisfies the security, governance, quality and operational resilience expectations of a regulated environment.

What you will be doing

• Work closely with functions and data owners to understand information needs, translating business requirements into effective queries and analysis
• Collect, cleanse and analyse large datasets to identify trends, patterns and anomalies, applying statistical methods to extract meaningful insight from diverse sources
• Support the design and embedding of data requirements, including regulatory requirements, across the business
• Keep information handling effective and compliant, meeting regulatory requirements for storage, retention, deletion and classification
• Contribute to the Electronic Document Management System, ensuring effective structure and metadata, compliant access controls, reporting and operational oversight
• Support effective data governance across the business, including policies, standards and procedures
• Establish and enforce data quality standards, ensuring accuracy and reliability across the organisation
• Support the Data Governance Operating Model and the day-to-day delivery of data governance tooling
• Ensure new and existing data assets, products and services adhere to relevant policies, standards and controls
• Prepare and load reference and master data into core systems to support workflow and reporting
• Build and maintain data quality dashboards
• Drive engagement, awareness and training in data management and governance across the business
• Monitor and analyse information and data systems, identifying opportunities for enhancement, from upgrades and automation to the responsible adoption of AI and machine learning
• Work with the Data Manager to keep data science tooling efficient and consistent, enabling colleagues to use the latest business intelligence and analytics technologies
• Investigate and support the remediation of data related problems through to resolution
• Identify and escalate risk across your area of responsibility