PROFILE

• Minimum of 15+ years of experience in data management
• Experience managing globally distributed technology teams\ platforms with an added advantage of working with UK & India Stakeholders
• Strong leadership experience and ability to manage and mentor team of data specialists.
• Strong presentation, articulation skills and Agile Delivery experience
• Track record of operating and presenting to senior leadership level – CDO, CTO, CIO
• Experience managing delivery budgets (up to multi-million £s), defining OKRs
• Experience in capacity management, hiring, training, staffing, capability building
• Setting up and driving the local operating model for data teams.
• Defining governance/controls framework covering data security, ownership, quality, regulations in line with group policy and standards
• Deep digital technology expertise including:
• Strong architectural knowledge with one or more of Modern Data platforms (on-prem\ cloud), Event Driven architectures and real-time or near-real-time data ingestion and consumption
• Applied knowledge of data warehousing.
• Strong background in modern data architectures\ platforms, cloud infrastructure and big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt or similar.
• Experience of data platform migration projects.
• Experience with database administration best practises and approaches
• Data Platform development and integration (bespoke and package)
• Data governance
• Experience in delivering enterprise scale transformation while demonstrating breadth and depth of knowledge across a number of the listed technologies:
• Java, Scala, Scala, Python
• Streaming and batch architecture (e.g., Kafka, Kafka streams, Spark, Flink)
• SQL, NoSQL and NewSQL (e.g., MS-SQL, Mongo)
• Cloud Services (e.g., MS Azure, GCP)
• Strong academic background in a relevant discipline
• Openness to travel to Hyderabad or the UK as part of the role

Responsibilities

• Leading aspects of design, development, and maintenance of data operations and database management approach.
• Ensuring the availability, scalability and performance of data pipelines.
• Implementing processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available to key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.
• Ensuring sufficient testing and observability of data pipelines exists and metadata capture, data lineage tracking, and data cataloguing is in place.
• Supporting the enablement of self-service analytics capability within other functions.
• Inspiring, developing, and managing a high-performing team of data operations and DBA professionals.
• Identifying and implementing new solutions and technologies to improve the company's data analytics capabilities.
• Collaborating with analytics and business teams to improve data that feed business intelligence tools and data science, increase data accessibility and foster data-driven decision making across the organisation.
• Cooperating with wider IT and other departments to ensure data security and compliance of solutions.
• Managing the platform and delivery of our external transformation and solution consulting services partner(s) to make sure they deliver to our requirements.
• Contributing to a comprehensive data strategy that aligns with the company's overall goals and objectives.
• Staying up to date with the latest data management and DBA trends.
• Building and maintaining relationships with external data vendors and partners.
• Actively collaborate with the India Leadership to propel the GCC Maturity Journey of the organisation
• Build the second line leadership within the larger Data team into a self-performing , high capability leadership
• Represent OSBI at key Industry forums as part of the branding journey of Technology.
• Drive OSBI Specific Initiatives while aligning and actively engaging the Group’s stakeholders.