Scottish Funding Council

Risk

• Support the delivery of activities underpinning the Information Governance Framework.
• Provide support for Freedom of Information requests and advise colleagues on obligations.
• Support preparatory work for transferring funding and delivery of training programmes.
• Advise on Information Governance issues, risks, and legislative requirements.
• Support compliance with information security and information management.
• Develop positive relationships with stakeholders and internal partners.
• Promote collaboration and knowledge sharing regarding information management.
• Manage competing demands and legislative deadlines efficiently.

Temporary Information Management and Governance Officer – Grade E2

Director

• Set and own the strategic direction for SFC’s data and digital services, acting as the senior product owner for the portfolio.
• Own SFC’s data strategy, ensuring the approach to data collection, engineering, governance, and analytics is coherent, sustainable, and capable of supporting both operational needs and strategic insight.
• Ensure SFC’s data and digital capability underpins the organisation’s wider assurance obligations.
• Lead Data Engineering, Analytics, and Digital Service Delivery as an integrated function.
• Lead workforce planning across the function.
• Coach and develop the Assistant Director leadership layer.
• Lead, develop, and performance manage a multidisciplinary team spanning delivery, engineering, and analytics.
• Champion a data literate culture across SFC.
• Represent SFC’s data and digital interests at senior level with various stakeholders.

Deputy Director, Data & Digital Services

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Contribute to the high-level oversight of all financial aspects of SFC.
• Review and monitor the financial health of institutions and funded bodies and make recommendations to the Board.
• Review the medium-term financial planning and recommend to the Board its approval and any subsequent changes.
• Scrutinise the annual budgets for programme fund, for both financial (April to March) and academic (August to July) years, prepared by the SFC Executive and recommend to the Board their adoption.
• Review the financial aspects of the annual report and accounts for consistency with financial information reviewed by the Committee during the year.

Finance Committee Member

Recruitment

• Provide support to selection panels including advertising roles, setting up scorecards, invitations to interview, handling candidate queries and any other necessary assistance.
• Co-ordinate the onboarding process and administration for all new starters ensuring a positive candidate journey.
• Proactively manage the flow of information in and out of the recruitment and Applicant Tracking System (ATS) mailboxes, liaising with team members to ensure all incoming mail is acknowledged and dealt with within an agreed timeframe.
• Provide support to stakeholders across SFC to enable them to make best use of the ATS.
• Ensuring the team’s records and files are organised appropriately and in line with SFC’s internal policies for information management and GDPR requirements.
• Organise internal and external recruitment meetings and take minutes as required.
• Provide any other support to the smooth running of the team or the organisation that may reasonably be required.

Temporary Recruitment Administrator – Grade E1

Data Engineer

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, roadmaps and deliverable data solutions, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, data warehouses, and business intelligence, reporting and analytical platforms.
• Define the data architecture framework, standards and principles, including modelling, metadata, security and data virtualisation.
• Support the Head of Data Engineering to develop and enhance standards and policies/guidelines whilst driving adoption of standards.
• Define data flows and data lineage, visualising which parts of the organization generate data, which require data to function, how data flows are managed, and how data changes in transition.
• Provide technical guidance and advice to help in the design and development of data solutions for data modelling and warehousing, data integration, and analytics.
• Provide direction and support to a team of data engineers and provide technical guidance on the data products.
• Develop roadmaps for both product related DE work as well as overall data maturity roadmap.
• Drive the design, building, and launching of new data models and data pipelines in production.
• Perform peer reviews, audits, standards compliance checks and due diligence as required.
• Report delivery progress and status to both internal and external stakeholders.

Temporary Senior Data Engineer – Grade E3

Cloud Engineer

• Provide technical leadership in the planning, design, and implementation of cloud-based applications.
• Manage and optimize IaaS and PaaS elements to deliver robust, cost-efficient solutions in Azure.
• Ensure the architecture of cloud solutions align with business requirements and application development strategy.
• Perform system troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.
• Lead efforts to identify and evaluate emerging cloud technologies and methods to ensure SFC remains a current and modern Cloud based organisation.
• Develop and organize cloud systems to ensure data security, cloud backup, disaster recovery, and compliance with internal and external regulations.
• Implement and manage cloud environment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Troubleshoot Microsoft Azure and On-Prem infrastructure, including network performance and security, and make recommendations for future proofing and performance improvement.
• Ensure robust documentation is delivered and kept up-to-date, including processes, controls and developments.
• Ensure existing IT policies and procedures are adhered to and enforced appropriately across the organisation.
• Proactively identify process improvement opportunities and support continuous improvement initiatives under your own initiative and direction of the Head of Cloud Infrastructure.

Temporary Information Management and Governance Officer – Grade E2

Deputy Director, Data & Digital Services

Finance Committee Member

Temporary Recruitment Administrator – Grade E1

Temporary Senior Data Engineer – Grade E3

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer