Data Modeller

Job Title Data Modeller - Hybrid - Permanent Salary: From £45,000 per annum (negotiable based on experience) + comprehensive benefits package Jisc grade: TDV3 (internal use only) Hours: 35 hours per week Contract: 9 month Fixed Term Contract Reports into: Data Architect Working style: Hybrid - A blend of working from home and your nominated hub office. We have hubs located in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford. For 30 years Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used. We are uniquely positioned to protect, promote and lead the sector in digital and data transformation, making a difference to students, communities and society. Together, we are working to build a better digital future for education and research. Raise your potential at Jisc through our culture of lifelong learning. At Jisc, we're all about growth, so embrace new challenges, sharpen your skills and shape a career that excites you. The role: The Jisc digital transformation programme is a three-year, organisation-wide initiative aimed at delivering a seamless, consistent, and high-quality end-to-end experience for all customers, regardless of how they engage with us or what their needs are. Anchored in five key customer journeys identified through analysis of user activities and pain points, the programme builds on the achievements of the Group CTO transformation initiative. It underscores the strategic importance of transformation across Jisc, leveraging foundational investments to drive impactful, customer-focused change throughout the organisation. The Data Modeller role sits within the Enterprise Architecture team who are responsible for developing and maintaining a target architecture and associated roadmaps, design patterns, standards, and models to support and govern change delivery across Jisc's Transformation Programme and the wider enterprise. As the Data Modeller, you will be accountable for designing and maintaining conceptual, logical and physical data models to support architectural and transformation activities, to enable analytical and operational use cases within our data platforms. What you'll be doing: Designing, analysing, and documenting data requirements using a range of techniques including source data analysis, documentation, interviews, and data modelling workshops. Creating and maintaining data models appropriate to the need and that conform to our data modelling standards. Producing and maintaining metadata and documentation to accompany data models using data modelling tools where appropriate. Creating and maintaining specifications for data transformation in both documentation and scripting. Testing models, data structures and transformation scripts to ensure they meet requirements. What we are looking for: Significant experience of designing, maintaining and using conceptual, logical and physical data models. Practiced at leading data modelling activities to define business requirements, create models, and review outputs with stakeholders. Experienced at capturing technical and business metadata including being able to elicit and create sound definitions for entities and attributes. Demonstrable experience in designing data migrations, including data transformation.

For 30 years Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used. We are uniquely positioned to protect, promote and lead the sector in digital and data transformation, making a difference to students, communities and society. Together, we are working to build a better digital future for education and research.