Data Solutions Lead – PR&C PSP

Role Overview

• Partner with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into analytics requirements & roadmaps
• Lead and manage the team of external data engineers and developers to deliver the data products.
• Work closely with other development teams to resolve and deliver required use cases.
• Is comfortable with communicating to senior leadership and can present clearly new solutions to the user community
• Collaborate closely with IT Business partners and business stakeholders to identify new opportunities, shape requirements, and deliver a backlog of features and projects that drive usage of the data analytics products.
• Be able to translate business requirements to technical teams.
• Able to communicate to business stakeholders in non-technical language, and to IT stakeholders in a technical language.
• Ensure internal and external development teams follow good development practices of datasets and reports/dashboards, and ensure training is provided to IT and business teams for Power BI or similar visualisation solutions.
• Drive design decisions for end-to-end solutions, including integrating data from new systems, managing a well-designed data model, and support data warehousing design decisions to ensure data governance, security, and performance optimization
• Own and deliver the Data Analytics strategy for the division in line with IT strategy and in collaboration with business stakeholders and business objectives.
• Take ownership of the key data products and deliver the business use cases.
• This can include the development of actual business reports as per requirements, which can include data on sales, production, inventory, prices, etc.
• Take accountability for the data pipelines from source systems to end users, setting up required processes to ensure uptime.
• Should be comfortable in setting up service management model for data products.
• Design and deliver insights, dashboards and data products to drive business performance
• Ensuring that the business has access to effective and efficient technology services, along with the expertise to enable innovation and delivery of a value driven portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, security and regulatory policies.
• Contribute to a cohesive set of documentation around data lineage, ETL, and data catalogues.
• Oversee data governance, data quality, data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives
• Responsible for the preparation, alignment, and delivery of the IT budget for Data Solutions Portfolio.
• Aligning capital plans with business needs and strategy.
• Ensuring alignment of both IT and business processes
• Take accountability for the delivery of divisional Data Solutions and services.
• Work closely with the IT function to ensure services are managed and delivered to SLA and expectation.
• Champion the needs of the business where continuous and service improvement is required to be delivered
• Accountable of the Divisional Data Solutions delivery, working closely with the relevant IT Business partners and IT Application Support team(s) at divisional and central I&T level.

Requirements

• Highly experienced within a Data & Analytics Team Lead Role, Technical Data lead or Data Product owner in the domain of data science/ analytics or BI
• Experience of managing a team of 2-3 individuals or leading the activities of the team.
• Experience of IT Operations and Delivery of strategic Data programmes
• Strong expertise in data warehousing, BI, advanced analytics and data visualization tools.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and quantitative skills with Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Expertise in agile development methodologies and data engineering best practices.
• Experience in working with co-located cross-functional teams and excellent English communication skills.
• Can break down complex requirements and delivery of multiple projects into manageable deliverables, while not losing sight of critical roadmap deadlines
• Experience in migration of data solutions to cloud and delivery of data solutions on cloud.
• Previous experience in delivering solutions powered by Snowflake, AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, PySpark, AWS Redshift/S3 buckets, APIs is a plus.
• Previous experience of working within a multinational matrix organisation within Manufacturing, Supply Chain or FMCG sectors.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and executive leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex IT issues.

Tech Stack

• Airflow
• Amazon Redshift
• Apache
• AWS
• Cloud
• ETL
• PySpark

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Flexible working hours