21961 - Data Management Senior Officer (National)


Company:	Ministry of Justice
Salary:	£42,914 to £53,081 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	National, NP10 8FZ
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 2 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	8 Sept 2026
Closing date:	22 Sept 2026

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Summary

Job Title: Data Management Senior Officer

Directorate: Strategy and Analysis

Workflow: Data, Analysis & Insights Team

Location: National

Grade: SEO

About us

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family courts and tribunals in England and Wales. Our roles support our service users and colleagues, where people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and want to make a difference in people’s lives in delivering justice. If you’re interested in developing a career with a real purpose, please apply.

About the role

The Data, Analysis & Insight team (DAI) plays a pivotal role in supporting a whole range of senior leaders across the business through reporting, analysis, and insights. Our work supports the organisation’s overall strategy and empowers senior leaders to make strategic, data driven business decisions.

This role will be based in our Data Management and Engineering unit, reporting to our Head of Data Management. It is a pivotal role for HMCTS to ensure that we are holding, curating, and protecting our data to drive value for our organisation both now and into the future, in line with our Data Strategy.

HMCTS Data Strategy (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Your role as the Data Management Senior Officer encompasses several key aspects (but not limited to):

• Work closely with data engineering, operational, reporting, and analytical colleagues across the business to deliver data objectives.

• Support DAI in the development and promotion of a strategic master and reference data management capability for HMCTS.

• Support the design and implementation of new data dictionary and data cataloguing tools for HMCTS.

• Drive improvements in data quality ensuring the quality of the information stored and available for analysis is accurate; produce metrics demonstrating data meets the required quality standards.

• Support improvements in our data by implementing and monitoring a robust quality assurance and testing framework to ensure decisions and actions are based upon reliable and accurate data.

• Work with the Head of Data Management around the development and maintenance of effective data models that support new and existing reporting requirements working collaboratively with stakeholders across the organisation.

• Support implementation and uptake of new technologies to deliver robust and accurate data management, ensuring documentation, data dictionaries, and data lineage information is readily available. This will include review and recommendation of appropriate and innovative tools.

• Ensure that all procedures relating to the delivery of data extracts and data flows are fully documented.

• Collaborate with data engineering colleagues on the testing and implementation of code and scripts before release, identifying any issues and risks whilst analysing the test results.

• Collaborate with DAI and stakeholders to develop, define and document an innovative change management process.

• Provide regular feedback on the operation of the data platform and assurance of the quality of information held within.

• Work with the Head of Data Management to ensure compliance with data governance standards and managing access to the data platform in line with the security principles and role-based access policy and procedures.

• Attend meetings and represent the organisation with relevant stakeholders, be flexible and capable of proactive and reactive communication, facilitating prioritisation and sometimes potentially difficult discussions.

Who are we looking for? (Person Specification)

The ideal candidate for this position should demonstrate:

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