# Head of Data Technologies & Platforms

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Reading, Havant, London, Perth or Glasgow Salary: £80,700 - £121,100 + car/car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family. Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available The role SSE is strengthening the enterprise data foundations that support resilient operations, better decisions and future growth. As Head of Data Technologies & Platforms, you will lead the group-wide technology capability behind data, analytics, data science, digital twin, data management and information management. You will shape, provide and operate secure, resilient and cost-effective enterprise platforms and services, setting the strategy for instances and tenancies, validating technologies for enterprise adoption and making common capability easier for Business Units to use. Business Unit teams will administer and use their instances within agreed guardrails, while retaining accountability for their priorities, data products and business outcomes. You will Set and execute SSE’s enterprise data technology and platfor

- **Id**: 4020138
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sse-head-of-data-technologies-platforms>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Perth, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T09:12:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T16:10:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6035
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Gym membership
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid, Wind Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 1808654
- **Name**: SSE
- **Domain**: sse.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sse-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 80700
- **Max**: 121100
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 162435

## Technologies

- **Digital Twin** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T14:42:39Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 162435
- **Is top pay**: no

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