Head of Enterprise Data Platforms & Tech Strategy

SSE plc; Perth; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare discounts

Gym memberships discounts

Online GP and 24/7 counselling

Cycle to Work scheme

Maternity and adoption pay

Paternity leave

Job summary

SSE plc is seeking a Head of Data Technologies & Platforms to lead the group-wide technology capability for data, analytics, data science, digital twin and information management. You will shape and operate secure, cost-effective enterprise platforms, setting strategy for instances and tenancies across BUs.

You will drive security, governance and cost optimisation while enabling Business Units to deliver data products and outcomes within enterprise guardrails.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience in large, complex organisations.
• Practical experience designing and operating modern cloud/hybrid data platforms.
• Experience across data platforms, analytics, data science and digital twin technologies.
• Proven ability to set enterprise services, tenancy strategies and migrations.
• Experience embedding security, privacy, compliance and automated governance.
• Strong commercial and financial judgement across licensing, cloud, FinOps and supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute SSE’s enterprise data technology and platform roadmap.
• Lead design, provisioning and enterprise configuration of data platform capabilities.
• Own lifecycle of platforms from evaluation to retirement, including tenancy strategy.
• Deliver secure, resilient production services with Platform Engineering, DataOps and DevSecOps practices.
• Establish reusable platform services and automated governance within guardrails.
• Lead group-wide commercial/financial management of the data technology estate.
• Build a data platform community across SSE to improve service portfolio.

Skills

Senior leadership

Cloud data platforms

Platform Engineering

DataOps

DevSecOps

Security & governance

Commercial & financial judgement

Job description

SSE plc is seeking a Head of Data Technologies & Platforms to lead the group-wide technology capability for data, analytics, data science, digital twin and information management. You will shape and operate secure, cost-effective enterprise platforms, setting strategy for instances and tenancies across BUs.

You will drive security, governance and cost optimisation while enabling Business Units to deliver data products and outcomes within enterprise guardrails.