Head of Data Platform & Strategy

EDF Trading Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal pension plan

Private medical and dental insurance

Bi-annual health assessments

Corporate gym memberships

Electric car lease programme

Childcare vouchers

Cycle-to-work scheme

Season ticket loans

Volunteering opportunities

Hybrid working

Job summary

EDF Trading Limited is seeking a senior leader to own the enterprise data strategy, architecture and governance. You will lead data product management, market data systems and core data engineering, turning data into a trusted enterprise asset to enable analytics and AI at scale.

You will build and mentor multidisciplinary teams, partner with trading, risk and finance, and drive a federated model for data ownership with strong focus on quality, privacy and value realization.

Qualifications

• Substantial leadership experience across enterprise data, data engineering, data governance, analytics or data product management.
• Delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms and operating models, ideally in energy trading, commodities or financial services.
• Experience managing critical market, trade, reference, risk, finance or regulatory data with high quality and timeliness.
• Track record of building multidisciplinary teams and leading major changes across tech and business.
• Experience of vendor and commercial management for data platforms, cloud services and market data providers.
• Strong executive-level governance, communication and benefits management experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise data strategy, target architecture, operating model and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead data product management, market data systems, core data engineering, and data governance as an integrated capability.
• Establish accountable ownership for critical data domains, datasets and products with quality requirements.
• Prioritise investment and delivery across ingestion, streaming, APIs, warehousing and analytics.
• Embed metadata, lineage, data quality controls, access controls and privacy into platforms.
• Build partnerships across trading, operations, risk, finance and corporate functions to reuse data products.
• Own market data capability including distribution, entitlements, cost management and resilience.
• Provide governed enablement for data science and AI with trusted training data and model lifecycle governance.
• Set measures for data reliability, quality, adoption and platform performance.
• Develop senior leaders and teams while balancing central standards with domain accountability.

Skills

Leadership

Delivery

Data governance

Team building

Vendor management

Executive communication

Job description

EDF Trading Limited is seeking a senior leader to own the enterprise data strategy, architecture and governance. You will lead data product management, market data systems and core data engineering, turning data into a trusted enterprise asset to enable analytics and AI at scale.

You will build and mentor multidisciplinary teams, partner with trading, risk and finance, and drive a federated model for data ownership with strong focus on quality, privacy and value realization.