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Join us as a Head of Data Service Provider at Peregrine Resourcing.
At Peregrine, we’re always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.
How Specialist Talent Works:
At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. As a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits, you will be deployed across our portfolio of clients as a specialist consultant, working on a wide array of complex projects across multiple industries.
The Role:
The Head of Data Service Provider is responsible for leading the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise data services, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and aligned with organisational strategy. This role will drive the evolution of data platforms, governance, and service models to enable high-quality, trusted, and scalable data services for internal and external stakeholders. The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in data management with strong leadership, commercial acumen, and the ability to build high-performing teams.
Responsibilities:
* Define and deliver the organisation’s Data Service Provider strategy, ensuring it supports business goals and regulatory requirements.
* Lead and grow multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, operations, governance, and service management.
* Act as the senior point of accountability for all data service provision, including quality, security, compliance, and performance.
* Champion the use of data as a strategic asset, embedding data culture across the organisation.
Service Delivery & Operations:
* Own the end-to-end delivery of data services, including ingestion, processing, storage, analytics, and APIs.
* Ensure the reliability, resilience, and scalability of data services, with clear SLAs, KPIs, and service dashboards.
* Oversee data platform operations (cloud/on-prem/hybrid), ensuring security, accessibility, and cost optimisation.
* Drive continuous improvement through automation, monitoring, and modern DevOps/DataOps practices.
Governance & Compliance:
* Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., GDPR, DPA, ISO27001, NHS DSPT, FCA).
* Embed governance frameworks to assure data quality, metadata management, and lineage.
* Define and enforce policies for data usage, access controls, and retention.
* Engage senior stakeholders across business, technology, and policy to align data services with strategic objectives.
* Manage relationships with suppliers, cloud providers, and service integrators to deliver best-value outcomes.
* Influence executive decision-making by presenting data service performance, risks, and opportunities.
Skills & Experience:
* Extensive experience leading enterprise data services, ideally in [government, healthcare, financial services, or large enterprise environments].
* Strong background in data engineering, data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and data integration/ETL pipelines.
* Proven track record of managing large, complex data programmes and services at scale.
* Strong knowledge of data governance, quality management, and regulatory compliance.
* Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with experience engaging at board/executive level.
* Commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, contracts, and vendor relationships.
* Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, ITIL, and DataOps practices.
About us:
At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, and deliver flexible solutions for every resourcing need, both now and in the future. Together, we help our clients to engage, develop and harness the skills they need to achieve and grow the workforce they want. We have a range of benefits you will receive alongside your salary.
Our culture:
At Peregrine we embrace fresh ideas, and we love learning fast. Our solutions are trusted and established, so we have the confidence of knowing we have a solid foundation. We rely on openness and honesty, and we’re always ready to help each other out. And we believe that our work can benefit society – whether it’s finding the digital talent of the future or being a driver for social mobility.
Our commitment to diversity:
At Peregrine, we’re proudly committed to championing diversity and inclusion, with company-wide initiatives to drive greater social mobility and reduce our environmental impact. Our teams represent a huge breadth of cultures, languages, and ethnicities, and over 20 different nationalities. We also employ candidates from a range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our partnerships with numerous charities ensure that we can stay well-informed and continue to improve our practices for the future. It reflects in the way we recruit our clients as we assist them in becoming more diverse.
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