Head of BI Platforms and DataOps (SEL & SWL)

South West London Integrated Care Board; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

South West London Integrated Care Board is seeking a Head of BI Platforms & DataOps to lead the data analytics capability for South East and South West London. You will set engineering standards, platform engineering and automation to deliver reliable, scalable analytical services.

In this senior role you will lead multidisciplinary teams including Data Engineering, Data Science and platform engineers, translate strategic priorities into practical delivery, and partner with stakeholders to

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary teams including Data Engineering, Data Science and platform engineers.
• Translate strategic priorities into practical technical delivery and standards.
• Establish engineering standards, operating practices, automation and service disciplines.

Job description

Candidates who are currently employed by SEL ICB and receive Inner London HCAS will retain their existing HCAS entitlement if appointed to a clustered SAE role, which will be offered through SEL London.This is on the basis that their office base will remain at the current, inner London, location.

Are you a technical leader who can turn data strategy into operational capability?

We are looking for an exceptional Head of BI Platforms & DataOps to provide operational and technical leadership for the capability supporting analytics across South East and South West London.This is a senior technical, operational and people leadership role for someone who can translate strategic priorities into effective technical services, lead multidisciplinary specialist teams and retain the technical credibility to challenge and assure Data Engineering, Data Science and analytical approaches.Working within the strategic direction of the Intelligence & Insights leadership team, you will be responsible for turning ambition into delivery--establishing the platforms, engineering standards, operating practices, automation and service disciplines required to provide reliable, scalable and efficient analytical services.You will lead a modern DataOps capability that enables analysts and Data Scientists to work faster, more consistently and with greater confidence in the data, platforms and analytical products they use.

You will have the opportunity to shape and mature the DataOps capability supporting analytics across South East and South West London, bringing together Data Engineering, Data Science, platform engineering, automation, data quality, orchestration and MLOps into a coherent and increasingly integrated service.

Working across Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake and the wider Azure ecosystem, you will influence not only the technology we use, but how technical capability is organised, engineered and operationalised.

You will translate strategic priorities into practical technical and operational delivery, establishing effective standards, services and ways of working while ensuring that the DataOps capability responds to the needs of the wider analytical function.

Your remit will extend beyond the immediate DataOps team. Working with analytical teams and wider stakeholders, you will identify where better engineering, standardisation and automation can remove unnecessary manual effort, improve reliability and enable faster analytical delivery., In 2025, the boards of NHS South East London ICB and NHS South West London ICB entered into a clustering arrangement, meaning that we share a chair, chief executive officer and an executive team, but we remain as separate, statutory organisations.

This also means that the ICBs will share some teams, who will be working across both organisations. Some teams will also be working across both geographical areas and integrated care systems.

ICBs are also changing, with a clear focus on strategic commissioning and delivering neighbourhood working.

This is an exciting time to work within our ICBs. We currently have the opportunity both to shape the future of our clustered organisations, and to be part of a radical transformation of care for the local people and communities across south London.

And while our two ICBs are different in some ways, improving lives for the people we serve is at the core of what we are both here to do.