Head of IT – Data & Analytics Platform

Roles & Responsibility

• Own the strategic vision and the technology roadmap for our data platform in order to meet the data needs of various stakeholders across multiple business units.
  
• Define and implement best practices for all data governance and data integration processes and tools.
  
• Define and implement an operating model that delivers optimum ways of working across the data engineering, science and analysis practices.
  
• Deliver and execute a plan to modernise the data infrastructure and tools in order to efficiently support both operational and analytical data workloads.
  
• The plan should deliver a highly scalable data lake architecture for optimal data processing.
  
• Ensure proper data governance and data security measures are established via processes and technologies.
  
• Establish and facilitate optimal project governance and decision making structures, such as Steering Committee and Working Groups, to ensure smooth, efficient and risk-managed programme delivery.
  
• Develop change management strategies and approaches to ensure transformational programs can be delivered effectively and business adoption is achieved.
  
• Safeguard the solutions against IT/Cyber security threats through appropriate design and controls; and ensure full compliance with IT Security policies and standards.
  
• Enable smooth business operations by ensuring high availability of the systems through appropriate design and architecture; and comply with IT availability and business continuity management processes and standards.
  
• Provide technical expertise and support for managing highly complex bespoke data processing needs.
  
• Effectively and collaboratively prioritise data related projects, balancing goals and dependencies from internal and external stakeholders, including product teams, technology, marketing, business leaders and partners.