Insights Platform & Assurance Lead

Lead the operational excellence of a large-scale cloud data platform in a complex enterprise environment.

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Reporting into senior data leadership, you will lead a specialist team responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance and ongoing enhancement of a large-scale enterprise data platform.

Leading the day-to-day operation and support of a cloud-based data and analytics platform

• Monitoring platform performance, availability, security and cost optimisation
• Managing incident response, problem management and root cause analysis activities
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives across platform monitoring, automation and operational processes
• Collaborating with engineering and architecture teams to improve platform capability and scalability
• Establishing and reporting on service levels, operational metrics and platform performance
• Coaching and developing a multidisciplinary team supporting enterprise data services
• Building strong relationships with business, analytics and technology stakeholders across the organisation

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful, you'll bring a blend of technical platform expertise, operational leadership and stakeholder engagement experience.
You'll ideally demonstrate:

• Experience leading data platform, data operations, analytics platform or data engineering functions within a large enterprise environment
• Strong understanding of cloud-based data ecosystems, ideally across Azure and/or AWS technologies
• Experience supporting production data platforms and managing operational service delivery
• Knowledge of platform monitoring, performance optimisation, incident management and continuous improvement practices
• Proven people leadership experience, including mentoring and developing technical teams
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
• Experience working within complex, enterprise-scale environments with multiple business stakeholders

What you'll get in return

• Long term contract, initial 12-month plus potential extensions
• Senior role within a collaborative and high-performing data function
• Opportunity to lead a critical enterprise platform supporting data-driven decision making
• Exposure to a modern cloud, analytics and data ecosystem
• Competitive hourly rate and the chance to influence the future direction of a large-scale data platform

What you need to do now

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