Location
Glasgow, GB
Department Name
Scotland's Railway
About Network Rail
At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We’re an organisation where people matter. Watch our video to find out more!
Scotland's Railway is part of this large family and it covers a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso at the far tip of the North East of Scotland, accounting for almost 20 per cent of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and we are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users, drives us every day and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.
Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly as we know that busy lives don’t always fit around a traditional working pattern, if you need flexibility to complete your role just let us know and we will do our upmost to help you to invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
We want to help deliver a railway which is safe, reliable, affordable and that provides great customer service to everyone.
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Brief Description
The Engineering an Asset Management function of Scotland’s railway focus on the provision of a high calibre engineering service that underpins the delivery of a safe, high performing railway network. Managing our infrastructure and assets also needs to be carefully planned, aligning objectives and activities which are delivered efficiently and sustainably, within budget.
Accurate asset data is critical to our asset management strategies. It provides essential insights into the condition, usage, and lifecycle of infrastructure. This role is an opportunity to strengthen our data maturity, developing and delivering long term plans for the provision of a data quality management regime and governance. You will collaborate with route, regional, and national stakeholder groups and lead on localised solution with maximum benefit.
The successful candidate will identify strategic data sets, develop action plans to mitigate data risks, and ensure our data is fit for purpose. The successful candidate will own the improvement of data quality, using tools such as Microsoft Power Apps and Power BI to design and implement solutions that automate business processes and enhance data quality.
About The Role (External)
What to expect?
- Manage, deliver, enhance and support the Regional Data and Digital services using but not limited to multiple Microsoft Power Platform Toolsets such as MS Power BI and Power Applications.
- Own and direct the development and delivery of a Master Data Management approach for regional and route asset data and information to meet business and industry requirements.
- Own the development of an assurance framework (including audit protocols to measure data quality) for data quality related processes management activities and governance.
- Collaboratively respond to asset data quality issues, identifying and making recommendations for improvements to the systems and/or processes. Integrate route Master Data systems with other external systems such that up to date data is used in the routes internal systems, reducing the need for duplicated data input.
- Lead on data quality analysis and reporting, providing advice to internal and external customers and stakeholders.
- Work closely with other members of the route data team to embed a high degree of automation into data quality activities on the premise that reducing manual processes will improve data quality.
- Work with managers and stakeholders to identify future requirements for reporting outputs and assess the impact on current resources, processes and systems in order to improve efficiency.
- Facilitate benchmarking and implement identified best practice and other data quality improvement initiatives throughout the route and proactively progress improvements.
- Encourage and champion a culture of data transparency to improve sharing of data.
Essential
What We’re Looking For
- Degree, or equivalent, in an engineering or IT related discipline
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
- Excellent IT skills, particularly in the development and use of databases
- Experience of extracting information and reporting from multiple sources, including databases
- High numeracy and analytical skills
- Substantial experience of information management in a service industry
- Extensive knowledge of business intelligence systems and their application in a customer orientated environment
Desirable
- Post graduate or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant IT discipline
- In addition to the above you will also have extensive demonstrable IT skills, in multiple Microsoft Power Platform Toolsets such as MS Power BI and Power Applications and use and build of databases.
How To Apply (External)
Salary: £55,596 - £63,797
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Closing date: Midnight of 2 nd July 2025
Please note proof of all essential qualifications will be required.
Please get your application in as soon as possible, we may close the advert before the listed closing date if we receive enough applications. Late applications will not be accepted.
Please note the recruitment process for this role is an online work related behaviour assessment and a competency based interview.
We're dedicated to creating an inclusive environment and we welcome applications from everyone!
Network Rail is a Disability Confident Leader and we’ll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. You can visit Evenbreak’s Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you’re unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.
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