Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Analyst to support a major IFS Cloud integration programme, working across multiple workstreams including Data Migration, Labs Integration, CE Portal, Data Lake Integration, and Advanced Forms.
The role will act as a technical data specialist and consultant, partnering closely with the Head of Data & Analytics and Business Insight Manager, while also helping lead the Data Migration workstream. This includes managing a team of Data Analysts and taking ownership of complex, business‑critical data activities across two source organisations.
This is a hands‑on, business‑facing role requiring strong technical expertise, leadership capability, and experience working within large, complex system integration and migration programmes.
Key Responsibilities
Data Migration & Integration
- Support and help lead the Data Migration workstream within the IFS Cloud programme.
- Manage the collection, consolidation, validation, cleansing, and reconciliation of complex manual and system‑derived datasets.
- Coordinate migration activities across multiple source systems and business units, ensuring data accuracy and completeness.
- Support system‑to‑system integrations aligned to IFS Cloud, CE Portal, Labs, Data Lake, and Advanced Forms.
- Ensure data is migration‑ready, governed, and fit for purpose for downstream systems and reporting.
Technical Data Delivery
- Perform advanced data analysis, cleansing, validation, and transformation on large and complex datasets.
- Support data integration pipelines into the enterprise Data Lake.
- Build, review, and validate Power BI datasets and reports to support migration assurance and business insight.
- Use SQL extensively for data extraction, validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
- Ensure strong data governance, lineage, and auditability throughout the migration lifecycle.
Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Line‑manage and coordinate a team of Data Analysts, allocating tasks and assuring quality of outputs.
- Act as a technical data consultant to senior stakeholders, translating business requirements into structured data solutions.
- Work closely with business users, system owners, and integration partners to resolve data issues.
- Support multiple migration‑related projects simultaneously within a complex programme environment.
- Provide clear status updates, risks, and data quality insights to programme leadership.
Skills & Experience Required
Essential
- Proven experience working on data migration and system integration programmes, ideally involving ERP platforms.
- Strong hands‑on experience with:
- Power BI (data modelling, validation, business‑facing reporting)
- SQL (data extraction, validation, reconciliation)
- Excel (advanced data manipulation and analysis)
- Data Lakes / enterprise data platforms
- Strong experience handling complex data: cleansing, validation, governance, and quality assurance.
- Experience working in business‑facing roles, engaging with non‑technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage and prioritise multiple workstreams and projects within a migration programme.
- Strong understanding of data integration and system‑to‑system dependencies.
- Background in utilities domain.
Desirable
- Experience with IFS Cloud or similar ERP platforms.
- Exposure to CE Portals, Advanced Forms, or enterprise self‑service platforms.
- Experience working within regulated or highly governed data environments.
Qualifications
- Degree‑level education preferred.
- Relevant data, analytics, or technical qualification, or equivalent professional experience, acceptable.
Personal Attributes
- Analytical, structured, and detail‑oriented.
- Confident communicator able to bridge technical and business audiences.
- Comfortable working in fast‑paced, complex transformation programmes.
- Proactive, organised, and capable of leading through ambiguity.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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