Global Chief Data & Analytics Leader

SoftwareOne; Wallisellen; Hybrid; CHF 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global culture

Mentor program

President’s Club

Flexible work

Lifelong education

Hire to Grow

Job summary

SoftwareOne seeks a senior Data & Analytics leader to define the enterprise strategy, operating model, and governance while guiding the global data platform and analytics delivery. You will shape data products, dashboards, and services to enable informed decisions and measurable business impact.

You will lead a global team, drive transformation across multiple domains, and partner with executives to align data initiatives with business goals. Hybrid work, visa-friendly, English fluent.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in Data & Analytics within a global matrix organization.
• Proven experience leading enterprise data platforms, data engineering, governance, analytics delivery and operating model transformation.
• Deep understanding of modern cloud data platforms, BI and analytics ecosystems, security, controls, and AI-ready data foundations.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, with experience building and developing high-performing teams.
• Strategic and commercially astute leader with a proven ability to translate enterprise vision into measurable business value.
• Exceptional executive presence and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders, leading enterprise-wide change across business and technology.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise Data & Analytics strategy, target operating model, roadmap, and investment priorities, aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Lead the delivery of curated data models, reusable data products, dashboards, and analytics services that support timely decision-making and measurable business outcomes.
• Own the shared data platform, architecture, ingestion and processing patterns, engineering standards, reliability, security, observability, capacity, and cost management.
• Establish and maintain enterprise standards for data quality, ownership, access, lineage, data cataloging, lifecycle management, compliance, and operational controls.
• Apply a tiered engagement model that meets business domains at their level of capability, maturity, and risk, from full-service delivery to governed self-service.
• Build and lead a high-performing global team across data architecture, platform engineering, data management, analytics delivery, and enablement; drive organization transformation.

Skills

Leadership

Data platforms

Data governance

Cloud data

BI & analytics

Stakeholder management

Job description

SoftwareOne seeks a senior Data & Analytics leader to define the enterprise strategy, operating model, and governance while guiding the global data platform and analytics delivery. You will shape data products, dashboards, and services to enable informed decisions and measurable business impact.

You will lead a global team, drive transformation across multiple domains, and partner with executives to align data initiatives with business goals. Hybrid work, visa-friendly, English fluent.