Data Analyst
Posted Today by Riviera Travel
£500 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Burton Upon Trent, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Data Analyst role at Riviera Travel involves supporting a major digital transformation programme aimed at replacing legacy systems with modern data solutions. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure data quality and integrity during migration processes. The successful candidate will engage in data profiling, cleansing, and validation, contributing to the creation of a trusted customer data source. This role is pivotal in enhancing business operations through effective data management and reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Follow guiding principles of the Data Migration Strategy.
- Help facilitate the running of a business-facing Data Working Group.
- Perform data profiling and create tests based on agreed Data Quality Rules.
- Review existing business data to assess quality, completeness, and consistency.
- Perform data cleansing/standardisation/conversion and de-duplication prior to migration.
- Specify, document and perform data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL).
- Support the creation of a single trusted source for Customer Data within Azure Data Platform.
- Document the data mapping between old and new systems including Transformation Rules.
- Design and Build scripts to ensure data is migrated securely, accurately, and auditable.
- Validate data synch between legacy and new platforms to enable transitional working.
- Work with business teams and the data working group to validate implemented rules and the cleansed and migrated data.
- Identify, extract, anonymise, provision and refresh data for consumption in system testing, User Acceptance Testing, end-to-end Business Testing and user training.
- Ensure outputs are checked and validated before handing over to formal testing.
- Support testing and reconciliation of migrated data during UAT and go-live.
- Identification and documentation of data sources for key business reports.
- Specification and testing of technical measures to achieve reporting continuity.
- Support to the Business to validate the accuracy of reports & MI containing data derived from dual systems during migration period.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience defining, performing and validating data migration on large-scale IT projects.
- Proven ability to undertake cleansing exercises, including auditable reconciliation and data enrichment.
- Hands-on experience with data ETL and Reporting tools such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, SSIS, PowerBI.
- Technical capability to perform source data analysis to inform data flow documentation and develop technical requirements for data feed change.
- Technical skills to analyse and reconcile reporting outputs, identifying sources of discrepancy and diagnosing root causes.
- Demonstrable experience of personally defining and performing data migration, validation and assurance activities.
- Experience working with business-critical and confidential data in small team environments with direct responsibility for achieving milestones (TCQ).
- Demonstrable experience of effective working and collaborative delivery in matrix-managed programme teams.
- Good understanding of data structures, formats, and mapping techniques.
- Experience working with legacy systems and modern cloud-based platforms.
- Attention to detail and production of clear documentation and audit trails for data migration activities.
- Familiarity with data security and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with development & test management tools e.g. (Azure DevOps, Jira).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with both technical and business teams.
- Experience in the travel or booking systems domain (preferred but not essential).
- Degree or equivalent qualification in data management, IT, or a related field (preferred).
Salary (Rate): £500 daily
City: Burton Upon Trent
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Role: Data Analyst- Digital Transformation Programmes
Reporting To: Data & Reporting Lead
Location: Burton Upon Trent, hybrid (2x office days per wk)
Day Rate: up to £500 per day, Outside IR35 contract
Duration: 6months +
With respect please no agencies
Riviera Travel is a leader in creating exceptional travel experiences, known for its high-quality escorted tours, river cruises, and solo holidays. With a strong heritage and a passion for detail, every journey is carefully designed to deliver memorable moments from start to finish. Joining Riviera means being part of a collaborative and people focused business where your work directly contributes to bringing unforgettable experiences to life for customers across the UK and beyond.
Join a major transformation programme that is reshaping how data powers the future of Riviera Travel. This is an opportunity to play a key role in the replacement of Riviera’s core systems used to manage holiday inventory, customer bookings, operational delivery and customer relationships, working as part of a high-profile programme delivering a seamless transition from legacy systems to a modern data environment. If you enjoy solving complex data challenges and want to see your work make a real difference to business operations, this role offers exactly that.
What you’ll be doing
Working across the Data and Reporting workstream, you will:
- Following guiding principles of the Data Migration Strategy
- Help facilitate the running of a business facing Data Working Group
- Perform data profiling and create tests based on agreed Data Quality Rules
- Review existing business data to assess quality, completeness, and consistency
- Perform data cleansing/standardisation/conversion and de-duplication prior to migration
- Specify, document and perform data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
- Support the creation of a single trusted source for Customer Data within Azure Data Platform
- Document the data mapping between old and new systems including Transformation Rules
- Design and Build scripts to ensure data is migrated securely, accurately, and auditable
- Validate data synch between legacy and new platforms to enable transitional working
- Work with business teams and the data working group to validate implemented rules and the cleansed and migrated data
- Identify, extract, anonymise, provision and refresh data for consumption in system testing, User Acceptance Testing, end-to-end Business Testing and user training
- Ensure outputs are checked and validated before handing over to formal testing
- Support testing and reconciliation of migrated data during UAT and go-live
- Identification and documentation of data sources for key business reports
- Specification and testing of technical measures achieve reporting continuity
- Support to the Business to validate the accuracy of reports & MI containing data derived from dual systems during migration period
What you’ll bring
Strong experience defining, performing and validating data migration on large-scale IT projects
Proven ability to undertake cleansing exercised, including auditable reconciliation and data enrichment
Hands-on experience with data ETL and Reporting tools such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, SSIS, PowerBI.
Technical capability to perform source data analysis to inform data flow documentation and develop technical requirements for data feed change
Technical skills to analyse and reconcile reporting outputs, identifying sources of discrepancy and diagnosing root
Demonstrable experience of personally defining and performing data migration, validation and assurance activities
Demonstrable experience of working with business-critical and confidential data in small team environments with direct responsibility for achieving milestones (TCQ)
Demonstrable experience of effective working and collaborative delivery in matrix-managed programme teams.
Good understanding of data structures, formats, and mapping techniques
Experience working with legacy systems and modern cloud-based platforms
Attention to detail and production clear documentation and audit trails for data migration activities
Familiarity with data security and compliance requirements
Familiarity with development & test management tools e.g. (Azure DevOps, Jira)
Excellent communication skills and ability to work with both technical and business teams
Experience in the travel or booking systems domain (preferred but not essential)
Degree or equivalent qualification in data management, IT, or a related field (preferred)
Why join Riviera Travel
You will be part of a collaborative transformation programme where your work directly supports the delivery of critical systems used across the business. This is a chance to work on a programme with real scale, complexity and visibility, alongside teams who are passionate about delivering high quality outcomes.