Senior Director, Enterprise Analytics & AI-Driven Insights

HellaGoodAudio; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks a Senior Director to lead Enterprise Reporting and Analytics Engineering. This role guides a team of analytics engineers, report developers, and leaders to transform engineered data into actionable insights, moving beyond static dashboards toward proactive, AI-enabled analytics and governed data products.

The leader partners with Data Science, Product Management, and Analytics Operations to deliver scalable, cost-effective, and trusted analytics across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent professional experience.
• 15+ years in data/analytics/BI with 8+ years leading teams and 4+ years managing managers.
• Experience leading an org of 25+ in a large matrixed enterprise.
• Strong SQL, dimensional modeling, and ELT/ETL with a modern cloud data warehouse.
• Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Github workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD in analytics.
• Experience with BI platforms (Domo, Tableau, Power BI, Looker) and governance.
• Data governance programs: catalog, lineage, glossary, stewardship; platforms like Atlan/Collibra/Alation/Informatica.
• Proven cross-functional delivery with Data Engineering and Product Management.
• Partnering with Data Science on model visualization and monitoring.
• Understanding statistics for anomaly/exception detection and forecasting.
• Formal intake, prioritization, and capacity planning for shared services.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management.
• Budget, vendor contracts, and platform licensing experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead an analytics organization of ~25–30 people including frontline managers.
• Define a multi-year vision and roadmap for enterprise reporting and analytics.
• Own budget, vendor relationships, and external capacity.
• Establish engineering culture with testing, documentation, source control, and CI/CD.
• Partner with Data Engineering on last-mile architecture and semantic layers.
• Drive data governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality initiatives.
• Oversee enterprise metric layer and governance across consumption points.
• Collaborate with Data Science to productize analytics and enable AI access.
• Build self-service capabilities with guardrails and training.

Skills

Executive leadership

SQL proficiency

Dimensional modeling

ELT/ETL design

Cloud data warehouse experience

Data governance

Data visualization platforms

Software engineering practices in BI

Budget and vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IS / Engineering / Statistics / Mathematics / Economics or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Synapse

dbt

Atlan / Collibra / Alation / Informatica

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment seeks a Senior Director to lead Enterprise Reporting and Analytics Engineering. This role guides a team of analytics engineers, report developers, and leaders to transform engineered data into actionable insights, moving beyond static dashboards toward proactive, AI-enabled analytics and governed data products.

The leader partners with Data Science, Product Management, and Analytics Operations to deliver scalable, cost-effective, and trusted analytics across the