Senior Archiving Consultant Job
Job title: Senior Archiving Consultant
Salary: £50,000 - £70,000 + 15% Flexible Benefits
Location: UK Mobile
Steria is a world-leading technology and outsourcing business, they run a sophisticated mix of back-office functions for household names ranging from Tesco to Barclaycard, Royal Mail to Thames Water. Through improving their clients’ IT and business processes, enable them to do more of what they do best.
With over 19,000 employees and plans for expansion, this is a great time to join the organisation as you will be pivotal to our continued development and growth plans. We’re offering you the opportunity to do more too - using your business skills and knowledge, and your creativity, to add more value than clients would traditionally expect.
Role Overview
Role Responsibilities:
· Provide data archiving and retention expertise into client projects from a delivery methodology, legal, compliance and tools perspective
· Undertake requirements gathering with the client business team and articulate functional archiving and retention requirements into documents and specifications
· Solution design of business and technical archiving and retrieval solutions (including 'hot', 'warm' and 'cold' archiving solutions)
· Project manage data archiving/retention projects
· Support bid and pre-sales activity
· Lead a small team of technical resources on a project (sometimes remotely)
· Provide input into project management role in terms of data archiving development/test activities and sequencing
· Conduct on-site situation assessments and identify potential work opportunities
· Undertake audits of existing data retention projects/requirements and provide considered feedback in relation to risks, issues and opportunities
· Maintain detailed understanding of latest technologies and processes within the data archiving domain
· Mentor and provide detailed knowledge transfer to colleagues
· Generate case studies and white papers in relation to the innovative use of data management, retention and retrieval toolsets
Essentials:
· Experience of at least three full lifecycle data archiving projects involving structured and unstructured data
· Knowledge of end to end information lifecycle
· Prior tool experience ideally across various leading vendors (Informatica ILM, IBM Optim, etc.)
· Experience of data challenges relating to major ERP-scale system implementations
· Data management strategy and roadmap development
· Strong client facing skills
· Experience of technical and business requirements gathering
· Ability to provide clear and concise feedback to clients including key stakeholder management
· Good analytical skills and ability to clearly articulate requirements
· Demonstrable knowledge of industry standards and regulatory/legal requirements pertaining to data retention (e.g. HR records)
· Extensive understanding of the UK data protection act
The successful candidates will be required to obtain clearance to SC level
On offer is the opportunity to work for a UK top 10 IT Consultancy and Service provider. The role comes with a competitive salary, the opportunity for further development and the potential for a wide and diverse career within Steria
Steria is committed to establishing and maintaining a working environment which is free from discrimination and which values all employees as individuals. All employees and prospective employees are selected, recruited, trained and promoted solely on the basis of their skills and behaviour.