Senior Data Strategy & Platform Lead

Vodafone; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone is seeking a Senior leader to establish data as a strategic product, delivering governance, architecture, and AI capabilities across Digital & IT. This role partners with Product, Technology and Commercial teams to drive data-driven decision making, regulatory compliance, and scalable enterprise data solutions.

Leading global data initiatives, you will define the data strategy, govern standards, and spearhead advanced analytics, data engineering, and data governance to enable product

Qualifications

• Senior leadership across Data Architecture, Data Science, Analytics and Data Engineering.
• 15+ years in Analytics, Digital & IT, Cloud and Network data domains.
• Proven delivery of end-to-end data capabilities from strategy to execution.
• Experience designing and scaling cloud-based data platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Strong knowledge of data lakes, lakehouse, streaming and real-time processing.
• Experience embedding data as a strategic product with measurable outcomes.
• Expertise in data governance, cross-function collaboration, and regulatory frameworks.
• Proven leadership of large Data Science, Analytics and Data Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Digital & IT data strategy with Product leadership.
• Establish data, analytics, and AI as core growth enablers and operational excellence.
• Create and maintain a clear roadmap for data platforms, analytics, and AI.
• Own end-to-end enterprise data architecture across channels, systems and networks.
• Ensure seamless data integration across journeys, platforms and telemetry.
• Set and govern enterprise standards for data platforms, pipelines and AI solutions.
• Lead delivery of advanced analytics and AI capabilities from ideation to production.
• Ensure data products, models, and insights are production-grade and governed.

Skills

Data strategy

Data architecture

Data governance

AI & analytics

Cloud platforms

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Dataflow

Dataproc

Azure

AWS

Job description

Vodafone is seeking a Senior leader to establish data as a strategic product, delivering governance, architecture, and AI capabilities across Digital & IT. This role partners with Product, Technology and Commercial teams to drive data-driven decision making, regulatory compliance, and scalable enterprise data solutions.

Leading global data initiatives, you will define the data strategy, govern standards, and spearhead advanced analytics, data engineering, and data governance to enable product