Data leadership
Get the data team you need, without waiting to hire
Data Team Build & Managed Delivery provides the expertise and delivery capacity needed to carry out agreed data work. Where you intend to establish an internal team, we also help define roles, support recruitment and onboarding, and transfer responsibilities in stages.
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Data work, but no data team
The strategy says data matters, but nobody is there to deliver it. Hiring a full team takes time, and meanwhile every project depends on a different vendor. The knowledge never stays inside the organisation.
What it costs: Priorities stay on paper, delivery is slow, and knowledge leaves with each vendor.
What it sounds like:
“We need data capabilities, but we don't have a data team.”
“We bought a platform, and nobody can run it.”
“Every project depends on a different vendor.”
Two ways to work
| Managed delivery | Interim to internal |
|---|---|
We deliver agreed data work with the team your scope needs, for the agreed period. You don't need to hire a replacement team. | We deliver agreed work while helping you establish your own permanent team, then hand over in stages. |
Managed delivery
We deliver agreed data work with the team your scope needs, for the agreed period. You don't need to hire a replacement team.
Interim to internal
We deliver agreed work while helping you establish your own permanent team, then hand over in stages.
You can start with one and move to the other.
Typical roles
| Role | What it does |
|---|---|
| Data leadership | Leads delivery of the agreed scope and coordinates the team |
| Architecture | Designs the platform and how data flows through it |
| Engineering | Builds pipelines and data products |
| Governance | Sets up ownership, definitions and quality controls |
The team's composition is agreed with you at the start, and only the roles in the agreed scope are included. Roles are provided by DataOfis directly and through delivery partners.
The data leadership role leads the delivery of this scope. If you also need senior leadership for your whole data agenda, that is a Fractional CDO.
What you get
| In every engagement | Where building your own team is included |
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In every engagement
- Agreed team roles and responsibilities
- A prioritised delivery backlog
- Delivery coordination and progress reporting
- Documented outputs and agreed ways of working
Where building your own team is included
- A target team structure and role definitions
- Recruitment and onboarding support
- Knowledge transfer
- A phased handover of responsibilities
Typical first result
An agreed team structure, delivery priorities and an initial operating plan, with the first delivery work under way.
Four role rows (data leadership, architecture, engineering, governance), each moving from empty to interim to hired, with a handover point between interim and hired.
Shows the second model only: interim to internal. Each role moves from empty, to an interim specialist, to your own hire.
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How delivery runs
- Set up.Agree the roles, the backlog, the ways of working and the acceptance criteria.
- Deliver.Work through the agreed backlog in priority order, with regular progress reporting to your sponsor.
- Build your team (where included).Define the permanent roles, support recruitment and onboard each new hire.
- Hand over (where included).Transfer the work, documentation and knowledge, role by role.
There is one backlog, prioritised with you, and it is always clear who does what.
Handing over to your team
Where you are building your own team, the handover is planned from the start. As each permanent hire joins, the matching interim role works alongside them, transfers its work and knowledge, and then steps back. Role by role, your team takes over.
Who does the work: a senior DataOfis lead coordinates the team, drawn from our network of senior specialists and from delivery partners.
Working together
- Indicative duration: typically 6–12 months for the interim-to-internal model, depending on the team you are building and the delivery scope. Managed delivery runs for the period agreed with you.
- What DataOfis is responsible for: performing and coordinating the agreed delivery activities, with responsibilities, deliverables and acceptance criteria defined in the engagement. Where delivery partners are involved, DataOfis's design, oversight and delivery responsibilities are explicitly agreed. This is accountable delivery, not only advice.
- Bought on its own: often combined with a Fractional CDO, but not required.
- What we need from you: a sponsor and someone who decides priorities. If you are building your own team, a plan to hire it.
Questions we often hear
A Fractional CDO leads your data agenda part-time, within an agreed mandate. This service provides a team that delivers agreed work. The two can be combined.
No. Some organisations prefer ongoing managed delivery; others use it to bridge the time until their own team is in place.
Senior people from DataOfis and from delivery partners, in the roles agreed with you.
The managed delivery arrangement can be extended by agreement, and the handover plan adjusted to the revised hiring schedule.
Where handover is part of the engagement, onboarding, documentation and time working alongside the team are part of the plan.
Often combined with
Get delivery capacity now
Tell us what you need delivered, and whether you plan to build your own team. We'll discuss the roles, the scope and, where relevant, the handover.
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Need senior leadership rather than a team? Fractional CDO