Data Lead Business Information

We are seeking a hands-on UK Data Specialist to own and evolve data sourcing, quality, and integration for the UK market. This role is responsible for building and running the UK DataHub/Digital Offer, improving data quality at source, optimising data costs, and enabling the business—especially Sales—through reliable, well-governed data. You will collaborate closely with regional/global data teams, IT, procurement, and UK data providers to ensure robust, compliant, and value-driven data capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Quality, Governance & Source Management

• Improve the quality of UK data sources through profiling, monitoring, cleansing, and remediation.
• Implement and uphold Group data governance frameworks to ensure compliant, secure, and high-quality data management in the UK.
• Define, maintain, and operationalise data matching rules, keying/linking strategies, and entity resolution to support multi‑sourcing.
• Lead ongoing data discussions with UK data providers and support contractual conversations (licensing, SLAs, usage rights).
• Deeply understand UK public and commercial sources (e.g., Companies House, HM Courts, CCJs) and integrate them effectively into the data ecosystem.

Business Impact & Enablement

• Create and operate the UK DataHub/Digital Offer as the technical owner, ensuring it reliably supports analytics, BI, and downstream processes.
• Optimise the total cost of data (licensing, storage, compute, usage) and track ROI of data investments.
• Support Sales with high-quality datasets, insights, and technical pre‑sales (e.g., data coverage checks, feasibility assessments, and demos).
• Translate business requirements into technical designs for data acquisition, integration, and access, ensuring measurable business outcomes.

Stakeholder Management & Vendor Relations

• Collaborate with Procurement, Legal, and Compliance on data provider evaluation, contracts, and usage policies.
• Maintain strong relationships with UK data providers; proactively manage changes (schemas, delivery methods, quality) and coordinate impact assessments.
• Communicate clearly with business stakeholders, setting expectations and prioritising based on value, risk, and effort.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands‑on experience in data management, data engineering, or analytics with a strong delivery track record.
• Proven expertise in data profiling, data quality assessment and cleansing
• Solid understanding of data governance, metadata, data lineage, and regulatory considerations for UK data.
• Experience integrating UK data sources such as Companies House, HM Courts/Tribunals datasets, and CCJs.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and measure outcomes (quality, timeliness, cost).
• Strong incident management skills for BI/data issues, with clear root cause analysis and preventative controls.
• Highly independent person who can work with little guidance, proactively seeking solutions and with a high sense of prioritization.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and can-do attitude.

​​​​​​Why Join Coface?

At Coface, we offer a dynamic, international working environment where your expertise will directly contribute to the success and expansion of our UK business. You will work alongside high-calibre professionals in a fast-paced, strategic role with strong exposure to senior leadership and cross-border collaboration.

If you are a commercially minded professional looking for an exciting opportunity to make an impact, we invite you to apply.

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