We can offer you:
- A great mix of work with the freedom to choose when and where you work
- A culture of trust and empowerment with responsibility and autonomy over your work and the freedom to manage when and how you do it
- The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and a business who take investment in tech seriously
- A competitive package with great benefits
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to create, lead and implement the Data Services strategy for the business, setting a vision for how this can drive the organisation forward both internally and externally.
By working cross functionally with senior management, Change Committee and Architecture functions, you will communicate and educate on opportunities for data-driven solutions to add material value.
You will identify and support key stakeholders within the business to achieve a transformative culture change towards industry-leading and customer-centric decision-making.
Your key duties will be:
- Create and deliver the Group Data Services Strategy and deploy this across the organisation, enabling growth plans, efficiency gains, risk mitigation and other group objectives to be realised.
- Create a new Data Services function that will deliver a contemporary and advanced set of services and solutions across the business including enabling self service models.
- Create, socialise and deliver a clear Data strategy timetable and technology roadmap including any proposed data architecture, data governance and data quality strategies.
- Use as titles for the accountabilities: Data Governance, Data Architecture, Data Engineering and Data Analytics
Data Governance
- Identify risks associated with the data platforms, technology, people and processes and mitigate these by developing a progressive plan.
- Responsible for defining and implementing data policies across the data domain
- Identification of data owners and ensuring accountability for data quality, data management, data accuracy and integrity
Data Architecture
- Responsible for the data architecture function. Ampa does not currently have an architect so this function will need to be developed.
Data Engineering
- Materially enhance current internal and external self-service interfaces, reducing cost and ensuring quality of performance and core business intelligence.
- Working closely with the stakeholders, identify new and innovative opportunities to deliver new value to the Group.
- Assess, challenge and benchmark current Data Services and Business Intelligence capabilities against best practices with the aim of providing market-leading solutions.
- Lead and engage an innovative and high performing team with the ability to articulate the vision and deliver effective solutions for Data Services.
- Ensure Data Services and solutions are meeting and supporting the needs as dictated by our House of Brands strategy.
Data Analytics
Responsible for developing the data analytics function within the team to meet the business objectives. The analytics team should deliver:
- Best practise data collection functions using Azure based technologies based on Microsoft reference architectures.
- Data cleansing and curation routines in Azure and across a data lake.
- The presentation of data and schemas for visualisation using PowerBI.
Skills and experience you will have:
- Demonstrable experience in creating and delivering Data Strategies
- Excellent data infrastructure, platform, software as a service and warehouse and governance background
- Excellent stakeholder management and corporate strategy experience, coming from a multi-entity, multi-brand experience.
- Direct experience with the Microsoft Azure suite of data technologies
- Ability to build and motivate a high performing team
- Exceptional logical and analytical thinking
- Demonstrating an ability to work under pressure to meet targets
- Clear planning and prioritising skills
- Extensive experience in engaging with and communicating to key stakeholders including Board members.
- Demonstrating excellent time management skills
- Previous experience of modern data science frameworks, analytic toolsets and other key technologies
- Previous experience in delivering data solutions using automation toolsets in Microsoft Azure
- Excellent PowerBI skills
- At least 12 years industry related experience, 3 of which are in a similar role
- Desirable: Microsoft Data certification
Let us introduce ourselves...
It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
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We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be predominantly home based with travel as required into our hub locations. |
Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here. |
Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. |
