Data Analyst at Riviera Travel, Burton Upon Trent/Remote, 6 Months+, £500 per day (Outside IR35)

Job Role: Data Analyst- Digital Transformation Programmes

Location: Burton Upon Trent, hybrid (2x office days per wk)

Day Rate: up to £500 per day, Outside IR35 contract

Duration: 6months +

Riviera Travel is a leader in creating exceptional travel experiences, known for its high-quality escorted tours, river cruises, and solo holidays. With a strong heritage and a passion for detail, every journey is carefully designed to deliver memorable moments from start to finish. Joining Riviera means being part of a collaborative and people focused business where your work directly contributes to bringing unforgettable experiences to life for customers across the UK and beyond.

Join a major transformation programme that is reshaping how data powers the future of Riviera Travel.

This is an opportunity to play a key role in the replacement of Riviera’s core systems used to manage holiday inventory, customer bookings, operational delivery and customer relationships, working as part of a high-profile programme delivering a seamless transition from legacy systems to a modern data environment. If you enjoy solving complex data challenges and want to see your work make a real difference to business operations, this role offers exactly that.

What you’ll be doing

Working across the Data and Reporting workstream, you will:

• Perform data profiling and create tests based on agreed Data Quality Rules
• Review existing business data to assess quality, completeness, and consistency
• Perform data cleansing/standardisation/conversion and de-duplication prior to migration
• Specify, document and perform data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
• Support the creation of a single trusted source for Customer Data within Azure Data Platform
• Document the data mapping between old and new systems including Transformation Rules
• Design and Build scripts to ensure data is migrated securely, accurately, and auditable
• Validate data synch between legacy and new platforms to enable transitional working
• Work with business teams and the data working group to validate implemented rules and the cleansed and migrated data
• Identify, extract, anonymise, provision and refresh data for consumption in system testing, User Acceptance Testing, end-to-end Business Testing and user training
• Support testing and reconciliation of migrated data during UAT and go-live
• Identification and documentation of data sources for key business reports
• Specification and testing of technical measures achieve reporting continuity
• Support to the Business to validate the accuracy of reports & MI containing data derived from dual systems during migration period

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience defining, performing and validating data migration on large-scale IT projects
• Proven ability to undertake cleansing exercised, including auditable reconciliation and data enrichment
• Hands-on experience with data ETL and Reporting tools such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, SSIS, PowerBI
• Technical capability to perform source data analysis to inform data flow documentation and develop technical requirements for data feed change
• Technical skills to analyse and reconcile reporting outputs, identifying sources of discrepancy and diagnosing root
• Demonstrable experience of personally defining and performing data migration, validation and assurance activities
• Demonstrable experience of working with business-critical and confidential data in small team environments with direct responsibility for achieving milestones (TCQ)
• Demonstrable experience of effective working and collaborative delivery in matrix-managed programme teams.
• Good understanding of data structures, formats, and mapping techniques
• Experience working with legacy systems and modern cloud-based platforms
• Attention to detail and production clear documentation and audit trails for data migration activities
• Familiarity with data security and compliance requirements
• Familiarity with development & test management tools e.g. (Azure DevOps, Jira)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with both technical and business teams
• Experience in the travel or booking systems domain (preferred but not essential)
• Degree or equivalent qualification in data management, IT, or a related field (preferred)

Why join Riviera Travel

You will be part of a collaborative transformation programme where your work directly supports the delivery of critical systems used across the business. This is a chance to work on a programme with real scale, complexity and visibility, alongside teams who are passionate about delivering high quality outcomes.