Delivery Manager - Data

Responsibilities

• Delivery of the Data Strategy
• Own end-to-end delivery of the Data Strategy roadmap, ensuring data and analytics initiatives are shipped on time, on scope, and aligned to commercial outcomes.
• Translate the strategy into a sequenced, executable plan with clear milestones, dependencies, and value checkpoints.
• Drive delivery of data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, Snowflake-based platforms, analytical models, MDM and data quality capabilities.
• Support the operational transition from Excel-based reporting to self-serve analytics platforms; driving automation, scalability, and consistent use of Power BI and modern visualisation tools across departments.
• Maintain a healthy, refined backlog linked to OKRs and the Data roadmap; ensure data architecture, governance, and data quality are embedded into delivery planning, not retrofitted.
• Line management - Kosovo delivery squad
• Line manage the Kosovo-based data delivery team: setting objectives, maintaining timesheets running CAP-Q performance reviews in HiBob, managing capacity, and developing capability.
• Build a high-performing, self-organising squad - recruit, onboard, coach, and retain engineers, analysts and governance roles; create clear career pathways aligned to UK-based capability leads.
• Run the day-to-day operating rhythm - standups, planning, retrospectives, 1:1s, team health - and bridge UK/Kosovo working patterns so the squad operates as one team with the UK Data function.
• PMO coordination & governance
• Act as the primary delivery interface between Data and the PMO - represent Data initiatives accurately in portfolio reporting, RAID logs, and steering forums.
• Follow PMO standards, gates, and controls; submit consistent status, risk, and dependency updates to allow cross-functional sequencing.
• Track and report cycle time, flow efficiency, capacity, and value delivery.
• Data governance & quality delivery
• Support the operationalisation of the data governance framework - drive squad-level execution of agreed standards for data integrity, security, and accessibility.
• Support the evolution of data quality management into Snowflake - working with the Data Governance Team to operationalise agent-driven DQ monitoring, alerting, and remediation workflows within the platform, aligned to Babble's data quality framework and DAMA principles.
• Partner with FP&A and Analytics on the automation of financial and operational reporting - forecasts, budgets, and board reports - and coordinate across departments to ensure data products and information flows are cohesive and fit-for-purpose.
• Agile delivery leadership
• Shape Agile ways of working across the squad - Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models chosen pragmatically against the work, not dogmatically.
• Mature the team's Agile practice from a basic framework into a robust delivery methodology; coach team members in Scrum and Agile fundamentals.
• Protect the team from scope creep, remove impediments, and create the conditions for engineers and analysts to do their best work.
• Drive a culture of transparency, continuous improvement, and accountability - measured through velocity, cycle time, and outcome delivery.
• Stakeholder management
• Communicate progress, risk, and value in terms commercial and operational leaders care about - bookings impact, GP visibility, operational efficiency.
• SKILLS & EXPERIENCE - ESSENTIAL
• Proven track record as an Agile Delivery Manager, Delivery Lead, or equivalent role in data-heavy and systems-heavy environments.
• Demonstrable experience delivering a data strategy and governance framework into an organisation - ideally in a multi-system, post-M&A, or transformation-stage business.
• Direct line management experience of engineers, analysts, or delivery teams - including performance management, recruitment, and capability development.
• Working knowledge of modern data architecture: Snowflake, Informatica (MDM and DQ) or equivalent ELT toolsets, and BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, Omni).
• Strong understanding of data engineering, data platforms, and analytics delivery lifecycles: ETL/ELT, data modelling, warehousing, governance, MDM, data quality.
• Knowledge of data governance, master data management, and data quality frameworks - including DAMA principles.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, integration patterns, and modern application architectures (APIs, microservices, event-driven).
• Solid working knowledge of Agile fram

Benefits

Additional Information

Babble is seeking an experienced Agile Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of our Data Strategy, line manage the Kosovo-based delivery squad, and partner with the PMO to ensure the programme is executed on time, on scope, and to the standards of governance demanded by a post-acquisition, transformation-stage business. The role combines delivery leadership, line management of engineers and analysts in Kosovo, and a deep working knowledge of modern data delivery practices. You will be the operational engine that converts strategic intent into shipped outcomes.

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