Senior Data Planner

This role owns relationships with external data vendors and is accountable for ensuring externally sourced data is technically fit, well-integrated, governed, and delivers long-term value across the organisation.

Client Details

Senior Data Planner

The employer is a well-established public sector organisation, recognised for its commitment to providing critical services and supporting the community. As a large organisation, it offers a professional and structured environment with opportunities for impactful work.

Description

Senior Data Planner

• Define and deliver the external data sourcing strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise data architecture, analytics ambitions, and business priorities, and clearly articulating where third-party data adds value versus duplication.
• Identify, evaluate, and onboard external data providers, assessing datasets for technical fit, data quality, scalability, security, regulatory compliance, and compatibility with existing enterprise platforms.
• Build robust business cases for acquiring external data, considering commercial value, long-term sustainability, cost efficiency, and downstream usage across the organisation.
• Own end-to-end vendor and partnership management, including onboarding, performance monitoring, renewals, issue resolution, and exit planning, ensuring suppliers deliver against agreed technical and commercial outcomes.
• Lead data licensing and contractual discussions in collaboration with procurement and legal teams, providing informed input on usage rights, constraints, cost models, and risk from a data and technology perspective.
• Provide technical oversight of external data integration, working closely with data architecture, engineering, and platform teams to assess ingestion approaches and impacts on pipelines, schemas, lineage, data quality, and target architecture.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, risk, and regulatory standards, maintaining clear documentation on data provenance, usage restrictions, retention, and lineage, and supporting audits and regulatory responses relating to third-party data.
• Act as a senior cross-functional partner and advisor, translating complex technical and commercial considerations into clear recommendations, and providing thought leadership on the effective and responsible use of external data across the enterprise.

Profile

Senior Data Planner

A successful Senior Data Planner should have:

Essential:

• Significant experience workingwiththird-party / external data in an enterprise environment.
  • Strong understanding of:
  • data integration patterns and data pipelines
  • enterprise data platforms, models, and downstream consumption
  • data quality, lineage, and governance concepts
• Proven experience managing data vendors or partnerships, including evaluating offerings and managing ongoing relationships.
• Ability to assess whether external data is fit for purpose technically, not just commercially.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate credibly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and decision-making capability, with attention to detail and risk.

Desirable

• Experience in regulated or data intensive environments (e.g. financial services, pensions, insurance, public sector).
• Familiarity with data licensing models, usage rights, and contractual considerations.
• Experience contributing to enterprise-wide data or analytics strategies.
• Background working alongside data architecture or data engineering teams (without requiring hands-on build).

Job Offer

Senior Data Planner

• Competitive salary ranging from £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + Hybrid working (2 days on site)
• Comprehensive standard benefits package.
• Opportunity to work in a large organisation within the public sector in London.
• Permanent position offering job security and career progression opportunities.
• Chance to contribute to meaningful projects that impact the community.

If you are an experienced Senior Data Planner looking for a rewarding role in London, apply today to take the next step in your career within the public sector.