Head of Data & Analytics at Valenture Institute

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Thought leadership on the solutions architecture of Valenture Institute’s technical data stack; including data governance management and strategy, and company-wide reporting and visualisation
• Maintain an end-to-end data solution that is cost effective, scalable and meets the reporting needs of the business, including dashboarding front end tools
• Becoming the technical point person on Valentures data stack, including but not limited to Snowflake (data warehouse), Dataform (transform layer) and Looker (BI tool)
• Ensure Valenture’s data policy is in line with industry standards and best practices
• Manage Valentures data pipeline, ensuring that the system is robust and the correct data points are gathered and stored across Valentures’ technical ecosystem
• Build ELT jobs based on jointly defined requirements to extract data from various cloud services, not yet incorporated into the data warehouse
• Design for long term scalability and maintainability to meet the growing needs of the business, by adopting a robust data modelling framework
• Manage 3rd party suppliers or contractors employed to assist with the development of the data function
• Work with business stakeholders from the Valenture team to understand problems and data sources, and play the pivotal role of architecting data models to address needs
• Be responsible for learning analytics at Valenture Institute, including the collecting and analysis of data about learners and their environments for the purpose of understanding and improving learning outcomes.
• Gather requirements, build roadmaps, and write great documentation for data sources that need to be modeled
• Manage the generation and distribution of reports to various Valenture stakeholders
• Support bug fixing and performance analysis along the data pipeline, including writing tests
• Be a strong advocate for a culture of process and data quality across development teams
• Automate existing reports and work with stakeholders to streamline reporting and analysis within the business
• Providing data-based technical support and assistance to the business, namely key data users
• Allow business stakeholders to gain meaningful insights of our internal and external users’ behaviour, visualised for various stakeholder reports
• Ensure close integration of data management and software engineering technologies into existing data structures
• Manage team budget and any software or project related costs, accurately forecasting into the future
• Define data roadmap and build stages, for both data analytics and data science streams
• Oversee build and implementation of data solution, adhering to strict quality measures
• Be the primary link between business stakeholders and the data development teams, ensuring business objectives are translated into high quality dashboards.
• Collaborate with business managers and stakeholders to make sure the goals of the data team are clear and the vision is aligned with business objectives.
• Make sure that there is buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy and clear instructions and deliverables for the data engineers, communicating with stakeholders
• Optimizing the value of the work the data team performs, overseeing the actual development of data models and dashboards, being a key player throughout each stage of a project.
• Implement Quality Assurance processes, ensuring all deliverables are thoroughly tested and meet a high quality standard

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience
• Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent work experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to present complex ideas simply
• Experience and knowledge of end-to-end data development process

Personal Skills & Attributes

• Self-starter who can come up to speed quickly on our applications, technologies and processes
• Confident presenter and good written skills
• Technical expertise and the ability to question, understand and challenge software implementation decisions and priorities
• Strong interpersonal and team building skills, ability to work with a diverse team and influence change across functional and business boundaries
• Strong project management, planning, and organization skills, including the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Bold and optimistic personality: Strong drive and high energy; action and the results oriented
• Solid technical background with an understanding of cloud based data development and platform technologies

Start date: As soon as possible