Associate Director, Data and Analytics

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Data and Analytics.

The successful candidate will be expected to perform the following duties with a high level of competence:

• Develop and communicate a clear technology delivery strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define technology roadmaps and prioritize initiatives.
• Drive innovation, process improvements, and best practices within the technology delivery function.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Mitigate risks, resolve issues, and manage project dependencies.
• Responsible for delivering in line with global patterns and strategies where appropriate and to align business requirements to technology solutions, aligning to architecture direction and roadmap.
• Provide consistent end to end solution designs which will deliver expected Business Outcomes, satisfy all relevant regulatory requirements and mitigate identified operational risk.
• Provide clear guidance and direction to Technical leads that affect a journey or prioritization in QBR sessions.
• Works across Value Stream and Sub-Value Streams (SVS) to identify and manage dependencies where they enter and exit VS and SVS.
• Minimize / avoid technology debts & ensure clear communication to SVS leadership and pods alike; escalate as required via VS lead architect.
• Clearly document all risks, issues, dependencies and communicate effectively and document via agreed Architecture Operating Model.

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Proven experience in designing and managing ETL solutions, including data modeling, data warehousing, SQL development, and business intelligence.
• Knowledge of cloud providers (AWS and GCP preferred), what technologies they provide, and the use cases they serve.
• Ability to understand business issues and devise solutions that deliver results, constructing innovative approaches where required.
• Strong leadership skills, team-builder, and influencer.
• Experience architecting in an DevOps and agile environments.
• Gravitas and ability to interact with and advise senior executives.
• Mentor and coach less experienced members of staff and promote an understanding of the value of data architecture and of use of technologies and standards in their domain across IT.
• Build strong relationships with engineering and operations teams aligned to the relevant area, particularly the designers within these teams.
• Design for resilience e.g. catering for tiered service levels and operational or regulatory imperatives or KPIs.
• Applying architectural risk management techniques and decision-making principles (in an agile control environment).
• Design solutions that balance flexibility and affordability but without compromising architectural integrity.
• Ensure preparedness for effective regulatory, audit & security controls purposes.