We are seeking a Junior Data Project Manager to support the planning and delivery of data and cloud-related projects. The role will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to coordinate project activities, track progress, manage documentation, and support successful project delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support project planning, scope definition, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Coordinate data project activities across requirements, data sourcing, ETL/ELT, testing, deployment, and handover.
- Work with business stakeholders, data engineers, analysts, data scientists, and technical teams to track project progress.
- Assist in gathering and documenting business and technical requirements.
- Track project risks, issues, dependencies, and action items, and escalate where necessary.
- Support Agile/Scrum activities such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Assist with data quality, validation, governance, security, and compliance requirements.
- Coordinate testing activities including data validation and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Track project schedules, resources, costs, and vendor deliverables where applicable.
- Maintain project documentation, status reports, meeting minutes, and risk/issue registers.
- Support production deployment, data migration, change management, and post-implementation activities.
- Assist in monitoring project outcomes against agreed objectives and KPIs.
Requirements:
- 5 years of experience in project coordination, technology projects, data projects, or a related environment.
- Basic understanding of data engineering, data platforms, data warehousing, analytics, or cloud technologies.
- Familiarity with GCP and/or AWS is an advantage.
- Basic knowledge of ETL/ELT, PySpark/Scala, data pipelines, metadata management, or scheduling platforms is advantageous.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or Kanban methodologies is preferred.
- Good analytical, organisational, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Good communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both business and technical teams.
- Willingness to learn and develop technical and project management capabilities.
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