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With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders. For additional information about the Wella Company please visit www.wellacompany.com.\nTHE ROLE\nThe Director, Data Delivery is a strategic and execution-focused leader responsible for enabling Wella’s data-driven transformation through scalable, high-quality, and AI-ready data platforms. This role leads the delivery and operationalization of modern data solutions, ensuring that enterprise data is accessible, governed, and optimized for advanced analytics and AI use cases.\nWorking in close partnership with the Data architecture and Enterprise Architecture teams, this position translates architectural designs into high-quality, production-ready data products. The role is accountable for executing against defined architectures, ensuring adherence to standards while delivering reliable and scalable solutions.\nAs a key partner to business and technology stakeholders, this role is responsible for delivering robust data pipelines, platforms, and products that power analytics, reporting, and machine learning initiatives. It has deep expertise in Databricks and modern data engineering practices, including environment setup, ingestion frameworks, ML lifecycle management (MLflow), and scalable coding practices.\nThis role leads delivery through internal and external vendor squads and is accountable for ensuring high performance, quality, and timeliness of delivery. It plays a critical role in driving vendor accountability, enforcing engineering standards, and ensuring outcomes aligned with business and technical expectations.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nData Platform Architecture, Delivery & Engineering Execution & Operations\nOwn the end-to-end delivery of data solutions on platforms (Databricks & SAP), ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles. \nOversee setup, configuration, and optimization of data environments to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability. \nDrive implementation of scalable ingestion processes (batch and real-time), transformation pipelines, and curated data layers. \nEstablish and enforce standards for coding, CI/CD, testing, and deployment across all data delivery teams. \nEnsure consistent implementation of MLOps & MLflow for model lifecycle management and reproducibility. \nEstablish & Lead Data Solution Architecture practice to ensure design integrity and proper execution of data architecture patterns. \nVendor Delivery Management & Governance \nLead delivery through third-party vendor squads, ensuring high-quality, timely, and cost-effective execution. \nDefine clear delivery expectations, SLAs, KPIs, and acceptance criteria for all vendor teams. \nHold vendors accountable for performance, quality, and adherence to engineering and governance standards. \nEstablish robust governance frameworks, including sprint reviews, delivery checkpoints, and performance tracking. \nProactively manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring rapid resolution and minimal business impact. \nDrive continuous improvement in vendor performance, productivity, and delivery outcomes. \nSolution Delivery, Operations & Lifecycle Management \nEnsure end-to-end accountability for the lifecycle of data products-from ingestion to consumption. \nEstablish & manage disciplined release management, testing, and deployment practices. \nEnsure platform reliability, stability, and scalability across all data workloads. \nOptimize data processing performance and cost efficiency. \nAct as the escalation point for delivery and operational issues related to data pipelines and platforms. \nData Governance, Quality & AI Readiness\nEstablish and Implement enterprise data governance standards and policies \nImplement and enforce data classification standards aligned with enterprise data governance policies. \nDrive data quality frameworks, including monitoring, validation, and issue remediation. \nEnsure data is structured, cataloged, and accessible for analytics and AI use cases. \nChampion the creation of AI-ready datasets through standardization, cleansing, and enrichment. \nCollaborate with governance, security, and compliance teams to meet regulatory and privacy requirements. \nBusiness Engagement & Value Delivery\nPartner with business stakeholders and analytics teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions. \nEnable advanced analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives through high-quality, reliable data delivery. \nDrive prioritization of data initiatives aligned with business value and outcomes. \nDefine and track delivery metrics, ensuring transparency into progress and value realization. \nVendor & Partner Ecosystem Management \nManage relationships with external delivery partners and data platform vendors (e.g., Databricks). \nEnsure alignment between vendor capabilities and Wella’s delivery and quality expectations. \nCollaborate with Procurement and IT leadership on contract management, performance reviews, and cost optimization. \nEnsure compliance with InfoSec, data privacy, and enterprise technology standards across all vendor-delivered solutions. \nLeadership & Organizational Development \nProvide leadership across multiple vendor squads, ensuring alignment, coordination, and delivery excellence. \nEstablish clear delivery governance, operating models, and ways of working for external teams. \nAct as the internal point of accountability for all data delivery outcomes. \nFoster a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous improvement across internal and external teams. \nDevelop internal capabilities to effectively manage and govern vendor-led delivery models. \nESSENTIAL SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS\nVery strong technical & management expertise in modern data architecture, engineering and operational efficiencies. \nProven experience architecting and developing of AI enabled accelerators for various data management use cases (ingestion, DQ, data mapping, ETL/ELTs etc.) \nDatabricks Platform Expertise - Deep experience with Databricks, including environment setup, architecture, tooling, engineering, optimization, and operational delivery. \nData Engineering Delivery - Strong expertise in implementing ingestion pipelines, transformations, and scalable data products. \nML Lifecycle Enablement - Hands-on experience with MLflow and operationalizing machine learning workflows. \nVendor & Delivery Management - Proven ability to manage third-party vendors, enforce accountability, and deliver through external squads. \nGovernance & Accountability - Strong experience establishing delivery governance, KPIs, and performance management frameworks. \nData Governance & Quality - Experience implementing data classification, quality controls, and governance processes. \nAI Data Enablement - Proven ability to prepare and deliver AI-ready datasets for advanced analytics. \nTechnical Depth & Coding - Strong programming skills (Python, SQL, Spark) with focus on quality and maintainability. \nStakeholder Management - Ability to translate business needs into actionable data delivery outcomes. \nQualifications & Experience:\nEducation:\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, or a related field \nAdvanced certifications in data platforms, cloud technologies, or AI/ML are a plus \nExperience:\n10-15 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or analytics delivery roles. \nProven hands-on experience with Databricks, including environment setup, ingestion frameworks, and optimization. \nStrong experience implementing MLflow and supporting machine learning lifecycle management. \nDemonstrated experience managing delivery through third-party vendors or system integrators. \nProven leadership in overseeing multiple delivery squads (vendor or hybrid models). \nStrong experience in data governance, data classification, and data quality implementation \nProven ability to deliver AI-ready data solutions at scale. \nStrong coding experience in Python, SQL, and Spark-based processing. \nExperience with SAP data ecosystems, including SAP BDC, Datasphere, and SAP data integration. \nFamiliarity with enterprise ERP data models and business process data domains. \nWHAT WE OFFER\n25 days holiday + additional day off for your birthday (not including bank holidays)\n3 days’ personal leave for your own signification life events\n2 paid days off for volunteering/charity work\nOptional Wella Pension Scheme (8% employer contribution, 3% employee contribution)\nOptional Family Private Medical Insurance Cover\nIncome Protection\nLife Insurance (8x base salary up to 2 million payable in the event of your death in service of Wella)\nStaff Discount (80% of all hair products, 40% OPI, 1 x 50% ghd)\nEAP (Employee Assistance Program)\nEnhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave\nGym Benefits\nEye Tests\nWOW Program (Bonus following exit from KKR, eligible after successful probation. For permanent employees only)\nWorkplace/Nursery Benefits\n4 weeks working remotely abroad\nEarly Friday Finish during Summer\nEEO OPPORTUNITIES\nThe Wella Companywants to meet the aims and commitments set out in its equality policy. This includes not discriminating under the Equality Act 2010 and building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce in encouraging equality and diversity.\nWe offer equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals without regard to race, religion or belief, color, national origin, age, gender,disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Wella Company with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at:https://www.wellacompany.com/consumer-affairs\nWe strongly believe that cultivating a diverse workplace gives a company strength. The combination of unique skills, abilities, experiences and backgrounds creates an environment that produces extraordinary results. 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