Service
Fractional / interim data lead
Someone accountable for data while you build the permanent function.
Many organisations need a head of data before they can justify hiring one. Until they can, the work tends to land on whoever has capacity.
What you get
- Ownership of the data agenda while the post is vacant
- Direction and hands-on delivery, including supplier management
- The permanent role defined, advertised and recruited
- A technical interview pack covering your platform
- Documentation your incoming lead can maintain
- A handover on an agreed date
- Who it is for
- Organisations with no data function; leadership teams who have bought a platform and have nobody to run it; charities and mid-market firms with reporting obligations they cannot meet by hand.
- Shape and duration
- One to two days a week, usually over three to twelve months, ending in a handover.
- Tooling I have delivered on
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- Microsoft Fabric
- Azure
- Power BI
- Databricks
- dbt
- Purview
Recruiting the permanent hire
Recruitment runs alongside delivery, so the permanent hire is in post before the engagement ends and has time to take things over while I am still there.
- A role description and job advert for the permanent post
- A technical interview pack covering the platform you run, so candidates can be assessed on it
- Support through shortlisting, interviewing and offer
- Documentation sized to what one analyst can keep up to date
- A written handover on a date we agree at the start
Proof
In delivery
On a current charity engagement I am building the platform and recruiting the analyst who will take it on, and have sized the handover documentation to what one analyst can maintain.