Data Director

Project overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Director to take over and manage a Data, BI, and DWH project within a large group in the insurance and social protection sector. The mission consists of securing the developments, testing, and progressive delivery of critical reporting and data intended for internal management and external partners.

You will be involved in a project currently behind schedule and will take operational responsibility for bringing the mission back to its objectives. You will manage a mixed team of approximately 10 internal and external employees, in close coordination with the Commerce, Finance, and Market departments, as well as the group's external partners.

Project and Development Management:

Testing Management:

Remote work: Minimum 3 days per week on-site

• Conduct a complete diagnosis upon arrival: status of progress, anomaly mapping, identification of business risks, and definition of priority trade-offs.
• Plan and manage the progressive delivery of reports and data according to business needs, ensuring a gradual and secure ramp-up.
• Closely manage the development and testing team, fostering close collaboration and regular alignment on objectives.
• Conduct impact analyses: assessment of critical anomalies, reconciliation of data discrepancies with third-party systems, and documentation of discrepancies.
• Lead operational and program governance: manage daily meetings, monitor publishers, lead task forces, and facilitate rapid decision-making.
• Prepare and secure production releases by defining clear go/no-go criteria and progressive deployment plans.
• Sort, prioritize, and qualify the anomaly portfolio based on their business criticality and operational impact.
• Take over and restructure the overall testing strategy: technical tests, functional validation, non-regression, and reconciliation between old and new tools.
• Complete and enrich specifications and test cases in collaboration with the functional architect and business departments.
• Plan and manage testing campaigns, optimizing resources and meeting critical deadlines.
• Manage the anomaly treatment cycle: qualification, prioritization, correction tracking, and closure validation.
• Build a robust, reusable, and automated non-regression testing framework as soon as possible.
• Lead testing and go/no-go committees, providing final opinions with the relevant business departments.

Project details

Lyon

Profile Sought

Essential:

Highly Valued:

Work Environment

DGTL / Signe + is the facilitator for all stakeholders seeking DATA resources or assignments.

As a specialist in the Data and BI market, we operate throughout France and internationally; through subcontracting, pre-employment, recruitment, commercial outsourcing, payroll outsourcing, etc.

Since 2018, we have been supporting our clients with proximity, fair pricing, and constant ethical consideration.

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• At least 12 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 5 years in management or operational leadership of Data, BI, or Data Warehouse projects.
• Significant experience in managing migration or redesign projects of complex systems, particularly in high-pressure environments.
• Operational mastery of SQL and fundamental Data Warehouse concepts: multidimensional modeling, normalization, star schema, aggregation.
• Proven ability to design and execute complex SQL queries for data analysis, reconciliation, and validation.
• Confirmed experience in Test Management and large-scale testing campaign management, with mastery of testing strategies (technical, functional, non-regression).
• Expertise in reconciling and matching massive data between multiple source and target systems.
• Excellent ability to make trade-offs, prioritize, and escalate alerts to decision-makers; leadership and commitment.
• Ease in jointly and concurrently managing development and testing aspects in demanding and critical contexts.
• Proven experience in taking over and revitalizing struggling or delayed Data projects.
• Knowledge of the collective insurance, social protection, health, and provident sectors.
• Experience in leading program governance and coordinating multi-team efforts (internal and external providers).
• Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies applied to Data and testing projects.
• Knowledge of test management and test automation tools (Selenium, Cucumber, or equivalent tools).
• Ability to document and capitalize on best practices and project artifacts to promote reusability.
• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 24 mois
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, FR
• Rate: 60-64 EUR/h
• Languages: French