Senior Director - Data Architecture, Platforms & Engineering

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Internal Bauer Academy

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working

Benefits overview

Job summary

Bauer Media Group in London invites a Senior Director, Data Architecture, Engineering and Platforms to shape the future of data across Audio, Publishing, Outdoor and central functions. You will lead technical vision for the data estate, guiding architecture, platforms and engineering practices to support growth and operational excellence.

You will partner with business and technical leaders across markets, build shared foundations, modernise data platforms and establish governance, quality and

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience across Data Architecture, Data Engineering and cloud data platforms at scale.
• Proven experience building and leading high-performing technical teams.
• Ability to influence senior business and technical stakeholders and create alignment across a federated organisation.
• Comfortable operating through ambiguity and taking ownership of complex decisions.
• Experience modernising complex data estates including migration and legacy decommissioning.
• Strong understanding of data & analytics engineering, integration modelling, data quality and platform operations.

Responsibilities

• Defining and evolving the data architecture, technical strategy and transformation roadmap for the wider Bauer Media Group.
• Building and developing architecture, engineering and platform capability.
• Leading Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering teams.
• Establishing technical governance, data quality, lineage, observability, governance and architecture assurance.
• Leading data platform modernisation initiatives including migration, simplification and legacy decommissioning.
• Partnering with Enterprise Technology, Enterprise Architecture, AI teams and business stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Data Architecture

Cloud Data Platforms

Team Leadership

Stakeholder Influence

Federated Organization

Job description

Bauer Media Group in London invites a Senior Director, Data Architecture, Engineering and Platforms to shape the future of data across Audio, Publishing, Outdoor and central functions. You will lead technical vision for the data estate, guiding architecture, platforms and engineering practices to support growth and operational excellence.

You will partner with business and technical leaders across markets, build shared foundations, modernise data platforms and establish governance, quality and