Data Solutions Manager
Posted 2 days 2 hours ago by Killik & Co
£60,000 - £80,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
I.T. & Communications Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Location London - various locations
Salary Competitive salary plus a generous benefits package
Application Deadline Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Job Summary Data Product Strategy & Prioritisation- Partner with senior stakeholders to identify high-impact data and analytics opportunities aligned to firm outcomes (e.g. adoption, AUM growth, adviser productivity, retention)
- Define clear product visions, problem statements and measurable success criteria
- Run demand intake, triage and prioritisation, maintaining a transparent roadmap
- Balance short-term wins with long-term platform coherence
- Translate stakeholder needs into clear, prioritised technical briefs including:
- Data requirements
- Entity definitions
- Metric logic and edge cases
- Acceptance criteria and non-functional considerations
- Produce high-quality delivery artifacts (epics, user stories, validation expectations, release notes)
- Partner with engineers and analysts to shape solution approaches, ensuring feasibility, maintainability and performance
- Manage scope, dependencies and risks to maintain delivery momentum
- Ensure data products are built on sound modelling principles and reusable datasets
- Champion clear metric definitions and semantic consistency across reporting and analytics
- Ensure governance considerations (quality, ownership, access, documentation) are designed into solutions from the outset
- Promote conventions that improve trust and reduce duplication without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy
- Define measurable adoption and impact metrics for each product
- Plan enablement, communication and feedback loops to embed solutions into day-to-day workflows
- Monitor usage, trust and performance, driving continuous iteration
- Establish clear post-launch ownership and lifecycle management
- Be comfortable validating logic, querying data, reviewing metric definitions and testing edge cases
- Provide technical challenge and quality input without becoming a delivery bottleneck
- Support prototyping and rapid experimentation
- Proven experience delivering and iterating data or analytics products end-to-end
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional delivery leadership
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise effectively and manage trade-offs
- Working capability in SQL (data exploration, logic validation, metric definition)
- Working capability in Python (analysis, prototyping, automation)
- Strong understanding of data modelling and scalable analytical datasets
- Practical understanding of governance concepts (quality, ownership, access, documentation) and how to embed them into delivery
- Self-starter who creates structure, drives clarity and delivers outcomes
- Experience with analytics engineering patterns and tooling
- Experience building or guiding lightweight front-end/internal apps (e.g., Streamlit, Power Apps, React/Next, or similar) to prototype workflows and accelerate learning
- Exposure to AI/ML delivery lifecycle and operationalisation (data readiness, monitoring, model risk controls)