Viva Insights Administrator and Data Engineer

In this role you will take ownership of the Microsoft Viva Insights data environment, ensuring the delivery of accurate, consistent, and high-quality organisational data within a complex enterprise setting. You will manage data cleansing processes, oversee data ingestion through systems such as Microsoft Admin Centre (MAC) and MODIS, and continuously monitor and improve data quality standards. You will maintain field attributes, ensuring clear definitions and metadata governance, while performing core Viva Insights administration activities, including data uploads, validation, organisational hierarchy configuration, and access management.

You will ensure that all data is well-structured, trusted, and aligned to governance standards, enabling reliable collaboration insights and reporting for senior leadership and HR analytics teams.

You will design, manage, and optimise end-to-end data pipelines that integrate Viva Insights with employee survey platforms, HR systems, and other enterprise data sources, supporting advanced analytics and strategic programmes. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Organisational Effectiveness, Culture & Behaviour, and Data Science, translating business requirements into robust data solutions. You will implement and maintain governance frameworks, ensuring access controls, data security, and compliance with audit requirements.

By enabling seamless access to high-quality data, you will support stakeholders in generating meaningful insights that drive organisational effectiveness and informed decision-making.

To be successful as a Viva Insights Administrator and Data Engineer, you should have experience with:

• Proven experience inViva Insights administration
• Understanding of the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre
• Experience managing large, complex data environments
• Data management, cleansing, and governance expertise
• Experience with data pipelines and integration across systems
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across technical and business teams

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Viva Insights platform administration
• Microsoft 365ecosystem(Admin Centre, dataflows)
• Python, SQL (Hive/Hue) for data manipulation and analysis
• Experience with Copilot data management concepts and controls
• Data modelling and transformation techniques

Other desirable skills include:

• Experience in HR, People Analytics, or organisational data environments
• Familiarity with survey data integration
• Experience working inglobal, matrixed organisations

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills

Your role will be located from our Northampton or London office.

To build and maintain the systems that collect, store, process, and analyse data, such as data pipelines, data warehouses and data lakes to ensure that all data is accurate, accessible, and secure.

• Build and maintenance of data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data.
• Design and implementation of data warehoused and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures.
• Development of processing and analysis algorithms fit for the intended data complexity and volumes.
• Collaboration with data scientist to build and deploy machine learning models.