Overview
In this role you drive delivery of a global Group Data Programme, combining programme leadership with strong data platform literacy. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across data architecture, engineering and governance to align with regulatory and business priorities. You’ll shape priorities, manage governance and stakeholder relationships, and ensure sustained delivery through pragmatic, value-driven approaches. Your work will sit at the centre of commercial, regulatory and operational priorities within asset management, delivering measurable outcomes on complex data platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead the programme’s delivery, resourcing and budget accountable to the sponsor
- Manage proactive stakeholder engagement with Business Heads of Data, Data Office, and Global Technology
- Maintain and apply delivery governance aligned to AMP standards and Global Technology lifecycle
- Coordinate Group Data Strategy & Execution forums and escalate updates to Group Data Council
- Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies; remove bottlenecks to maximize value
- Capture and analyse delivery metrics to inform stakeholders and substantiate progress
- Balance multiple initiatives, ensuring transparency of work and cross-team collaboration
- Navigate governance structures and maintain momentum across cross-functional teams
- Apply agile and pragmatic delivery approaches suited to the context
Key requirements
- Experience leading multi-skilled teams to a shared outcome
- Ability to influence engineers, QAs, analysts and stakeholders in agile adoption
- Strong knowledge of data platforms (Snowflake, Collibra, Solidatus) and cloud features (Azure, AWS)
- Experience managing multiple initiatives and stakeholder collaboration
- Tenacity to remove delivery bottlenecks
- Experience creating and using delivery metrics; understanding leading vs lagging indicators
- Knowledge of full software development lifecycle
- Excellent communication and influence with senior stakeholders
- Extensive experience in technology change delivery within a large, global, regulated financial services organisation
- Experience working with global colleagues across time zones and distributed delivery
- communication
- influence
- stakeholder management
- Snowflake
- Collibra
- DBT
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