Data Management Solutions Manager

Role Purpose

Data Management Solutions Manager is responsible for hands-on design and delivery of the tooling for Data Management – e.g. Data Catalog, Data Quality, Data Lineage.

This includes configuring pipelines and connectors to ingest metadata, classify data, and establish data elements within a Business Data Catalog enabling additional data governance activities such as data quality and data lineage. The manager will be hands-on and responsible for tooling related to metadata management, data quality management, reference data management, master data management, amongst others.

This role will also support use case development leveraging data elements/attributes through hands-on data profiling and data discovery.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Implement comprehensive data cataloging for appropriate data attributes
• Connect the orchestration and integration of data catalog tooling with data governance activities
• Develop data quality profiling and data quality issue management solutions using appropriate tooling
• Develop data lineage visualisation for use cases
• Drive adoption and utilisation of data management tooling, enabling enterprise data discovery and self-service

Undertake hands-on data discovery and data governance activities for priority use cases to showcase data management best practice

About you

• In-depth experience of set up and embedding data management tooling (catalog, quality, lineage, etc) – in particular using Microsoft Purview (must have) and Unity Catalog (should have)
• Curiosity and eagerness to explore the new frontiers and opportunities for Data Management & Quality in the GenAI space, both as enabler and beneficiary (Data for GenAI & GenAI for Data)
• In-depth experience of data architecture, modelling and data modelling tools
• Ability to identify and address data-related challenges effectively
• Experience developing technical and business lineage
• Experience developing data quality rules and profiling of data quality using DQ tooling
• In-depth experience with data management tooling for managing metadata, data quality, reference data and master data amongst others
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead projects from inception to completion
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with various stakeholders and explaining complex concepts
• Experience in data classification and application to data security and access controls

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.