Overview
As the Head of Data Engineering & Governance, you will provide senior leadership and strategic direction for the organisation's data engineering capability and data governance framework. This role reports into the Senior Director of Data & Insight and operates as the senior authority for:
Responsibilities
- Data warehouse and platform strategy.
- Architectural standards and long-term technical direction.
- Data governance, quality and ownership frameworks.
- Cross-functional data alignment across Technology, Operations, Finance and Commercial teams.
- You will ensure the data engineering function operates effectively through clear leadership, direction, and partnership with the Data Engineering Manager and the wider team, while driving company-wide improvements in how data is structured, owned, trusted and governed.
- Held senior leadership responsibility for data engineering, data platform and / or data architecture functions
- Owned or evolved a modern data warehouse at scale
- Led data governance or data quality initiatives across multiple business functions
- Successfully line managed senior leaders who hold stakeholder and / or people management duties or are senior technical Individual Contributors
- Operated in complex stakeholder environments requiring influence without direct authority
- Shaped long-term data and platform strategy aligned to business goals
- Made and defended significant architecture and tooling decisions
- Worked within cloud-first environments (AWS preferred)
- Balanced strategic leadership with sufficient technical depth to command credibility
- Working in close partnership with analytics, reporting, software engineering, IT, platform/cloud teams, and operations
- Although this is primarily a hands-off role experience with SQL, Python, Git-based workflows, Linux and/or Unix command line including Bash/Shell scripting is preferred
