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The role combines technical leadership with strong business engagement, establishing common engineering standards, prioritising demand, and building a high-performing, globally distributed delivery capability.\nYou’ll be responsible for:\nManaging the design, development, operation, and continuous improvement of the organisation’s data platform, data warehouse, integration pipelines, semantic models, reporting, and analytics services. \nTranslating the global data strategy and target architecture into an executable engineering and analytics roadmap, aligned with business priorities and measurable value. \nEstablishing and enforcing engineering standards covering solution design, coding, testing, release management, observability, documentation, resilience, security, and cost efficiency. \nCreating trusted, reusable data products and common datasets that reduce duplication and support consistent enterprise reporting, client insight, digital services, and AI-ready use cases. \nOwning the intake, prioritisation, and delivery of engineering, BI, and analytics demand, balancing strategic change, project delivery, and business-as-usual requirements. \nPartnering with Data Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Digital Product, IT Operations, and business leaders to embed quality, lineage, access controls, privacy, retention, and regulatory requirements by design. \nManaging, developing, and organising a high-performing team of data engineers, BI developers, analysts, and delivery partners, using an effective right-shored operating model. \nManaging strategic suppliers and technology partners, ensuring clear accountability for quality, pace, service performance, knowledge transfer, and value for money. \nActing as the senior technical authority for data engineering and analytics, providing clear advice, resolving delivery blockers, and communicating complex topics credibly to senior stakeholders. \nYou’ll need to have:\nSignificant leadership experience across enterprise data engineering, data platforms, BI, analytics, or related disciplines in a complex, global organisation. \nProven delivery of modern cloud-based data platforms, data lakes or warehouses, integration patterns, ETL/ELT pipelines, semantic models, and analytics solutions. \nStrong knowledge of the Microsoft data and analytics ecosystem, including Azure data services, SQL, Power BI, and modern engineering practices. 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