Data Cleansing Team Lead

About the company

We are AMS. We are a global total workforce solutions firm; we enable organisations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, re-shaping, and optimising workforces. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings; we act as an extension of our clients' recruitment team and provide professional interim and temporary resources.

Our client is a well-known building society with headquarters in Swindon; As one of the largest savings and mortgage providers in the UK, 15 million members are at the heart of everything they do.

Your tasks

Purpose of the Role The Data Cleansing Team Leader will lead and coordinate a team of Data Cleansing Administrators supporting the People Integration Archiving and Decommissioning Project.

In addition to being able to undertake data review and cleansing activity personally, the Team Leader will allocate workloads, monitor progress and quality, manage exceptions and provide concise reporting on delivery. The role is accountable for coordinating the review, cleansing, reconciliation and evidence of assigned data sources in accordance with agreed retention, privacy and migration controls. Final approval of retention, deletion, legal-hold and data-owner decisions remains with the relevant SME, data owner or governance authority.

The role will provide the operational link between Data Cleansing Administrators, lead SMEs and the project team, ensuring that work remains controlled and on track across the agreed delivery tranches. The Team Leader will coordinate day-to-day delivery; formal line-management responsibility should be confirmed before publication.

As a Data Cleansing Team Lead you will be responsible for:

• Coordinating team activities, workload allocation, and priorities.
• Monitoring capacity, progress, and delivery against project timelines.
• Identifying and escalating resource, capability, and delivery risks.
• Supporting onboarding, training, and access requirements.
• Overseeing data cleansing and ensure compliance with retention, privacy, deletion, and migration rules.
• Conducting quality checks, resolve data issues, and manage duplicate or conflicting records.
• Ensuring legal holds, exceptions, and security controls are maintained.
• Acting as the first point of escalation and coordinate resolution of operational issues.
• Maintaining exception, decision, risk, and audit logs.
• Ensuring complete audit trails, evidence quality, and process compliance.
• Coordinating attestations, assurance activities, and stakeholder sign-offs.
• Supporting migration readiness, reconciliation, business validation, and UAT.
• Investigating variances, track defects, and drive actions to closure.
• Producing accurate reporting on progress, quality, risks, issues, and forecasts.
• Communicating updates to project teams, SMEs, and governance stakeholders.
• Ensuring data sources are ready for validation, approval, migration, or decommissioning.

Requirements

What we require from the candidate

• Experience leading or coordinating delivery teams.
• Strong Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience managing high-volume data or operational activities.
• Ability to interpret policies and provide clear guidance.
• Strong planning, prioritisation, and workload management skills.
• Experience producing reports, forecasts, and management information.
• Strong attention to detail, quality, and compliance.
• Confident managing risks, issues, exceptions, and escalations.
• Strong stakeholder communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience handling sensitive information, audit trails, and evidence logs.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and with competing priorities.
• Knowledge of data cleansing, migration, archiving, records management, or information governance.
• Understanding of retention, privacy, legal hold, and data governance principles.
• Experience with reconciliation, business validation, and UAT.
• Experience working to fixed deadlines, releases, or regulatory timelines.
• Strong leadership, accountability, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to challenge constructively, drive continuous improvement, and support team development

How to apply

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

Other

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Data Cleansing Team Leader for a 7-month contract based in Swindon, hybrid (2 days per week in the office).

Next steps This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business