!!!ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE DATA PLATFORM DELIVERY EXPERIENCE!!!
At Ei Square®, we assist our clients to be mature in their data footprint. Data and analytics are the engine that propels our clients’ business forward, with reliable and well-managed data being a critical component in achieving our client’s overall strategy. We are currently seeking a dynamic and experienced Data Platform Delivery & Account Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping and executing world-class data platform implementation for our clients.
Role overview
Ei Square / Deesha is looking for a Data Platform Delivery & Account Lead is responsible for orchestrating the successful implementation of a new organisational data platform — from planning and sprint delivery to stakeholder governance and light account management. This hybrid role combines agile delivery leadership, project governance, and client relationship management, ensuring the programme progresses smoothly while maintaining strong communication and trust with stakeholders.
You will plan the implementation roadmap, create epics and user stories, run sprints, and maintain all delivery artefacts. You will also produce the project steering deck, manage the risk register, track actions, and occasionally act as the account lead for client‑facing conversations.
This role suits someone who is structured, proactive, and confident navigating both technical delivery teams and senior business stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
1. Programme & Implementation Planning
· Develop the end-to-end implementation plan for the data platform, including milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
· Coordinate with engineering, data, product, and business teams to ensure alignment on scope, timelines, and deliverables.
· Translate business requirements into actionable delivery plans and ensure clarity across all contributors.
2. Agile Delivery Leadership
· Create and maintain epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items.
· Lead sprint ceremonies: planning, daily stand ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
· Track sprint progress, velocity, blockers, and delivery risks.
· Ensure sprint goals are realistic, measurable, and aligned with the platform roadmap.
3. Governance & Reporting
· Build and maintain the project steering deck for senior leadership, including progress updates, risks, decisions, and financials.
· Own the risk register, ensuring risks are logged, assessed, mitigated, and escalated appropriately.
· Maintain the actions list, ensuring owners, deadlines, and statuses are clearly tracked and communicated.
· Facilitate steering meetings and ensure decisions are documented and followed through.
4. Account Management (Occasional)
· Act as the client/account lead for selected conversations, ensuring expectations are managed and relationships remain strong.
· Support commercial discussions, scope clarifications, and roadmap alignment.
· Provide clear, confident communication to clients regarding delivery progress, risks, and next steps.
· Identify opportunities to strengthen client satisfaction and future engagement.
5. Cross Functional Collaboration
· Work closely with data engineers, analysts, architects, and business SMEs to ensure requirements are understood and delivered.
· Partner with change management teams to support training, adoption, and go live readiness.
· Ensure alignment between technical delivery and business outcomes.
Essential Experience
· Proven experience delivering data platforms, data warehouses, or analytics solutions.
· Strong background in Agile delivery, including backlog creation, sprint management, and team facilitation.
· Experience producing steering packs for senior stakeholders.
· Demonstrated ability to manage RAID logs and project governance artefacts.
· Experience in client facing roles, ideally with some account management exposure.
· Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
Skills & Competencies
· Highly structured thinker with strong planning and prioritisation skills.
· Confident facilitator able to lead cross functional teams.
· Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail.
· Excellent written communication, particularly for executive audiences.
· Relationship driven, with strong interpersonal skills and commercial awareness.
· Calm, organised, and proactive under pressure.
· Collaborative and able to build trust across technical and non technical teams.
· Comfortable challenging assumptions and driving clarity.
· Outcome focused, with a commitment to delivering value quickly and iteratively.
· Professional, empathetic, and client centred in communication.
Success in This Role Looks Like
A clear, trusted delivery plan that stakeholders rely on.
Sprints running smoothly with predictable velocity and minimal blockers.
Steering decks that provide clarity, confidence, and direction.
Risks and actions managed proactively, not reactively.
Strong client relationships built through clear communication and dependable delivery.
A data platform delivered on time, with strong adoption and measurable business impact.
What’s in it for you:
· A platform to grow.
· Flexible ways of working.
· Competitive salary.
· Opportunity to make a difference.
· Be part of a big family
· Enjoy a wonderful work-life balance.
This is a full-time role, working flexibly from home and at client sites. We can offer a competitive salary in line with experience, 28 days holiday and performance-based bonus. We take pride in having a supportive, trusting, flexible and outcome based working environment. If you are passionate about advancing data landscape for educational institution and improving student outcomes, we invite you to contribute and join our team at Ei Square®.
Pay: Up to £50,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Camberley GU15
