Senior Director, Enterprise Analytics & AI Engineering

Sony Interactive Entertainment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Director to lead Enterprise Reporting and Analytics Engineering. You will shape the multi-year strategy, build an organization of ~30, and partner with Data Science, Data Engineering, and Product Management to deliver governed analytics and AI-enabled insights.

You’ll drive the last-mile data architecture, ensure quality across semantic models, and scale proactive analytics that inform business decisions while managing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in data, analytics, or business intelligence, including 8+ years leading teams and 4+ years managing managers.
• Demonstrated experience leading an organization of 25+ people in a large, matrixed enterprise.
• Strong hands-on foundation in SQL, dimensional modeling, and ELT/ETL design, with production experience on a modern cloud data warehouse and a transformation framework such as dbt.
• Experience applying software engineering practices to analytics work, including Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Experience leveraging BI and data visualization platforms (Domo, Tableau, Power BI, Looker) with governance, provisioning, adoption, and cost management.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Data Engineering, Product Management, and Data Science to deliver analytics products and model-driven insights.
• Experience partnering with Data Science to operationalize models (including LLM-based analytics) and to design governance and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop an organization of ~30 people, including frontline managers; own hiring, role clarity, career paths, performance management, and succession planning.
• Define a multi-year vision and translate it into quarterly outcomes; partner with Product Management for a data strategy.
• Own budget, vendor relationships, and offshoring capacity.
• Establish engineering culture in analytics: peer review, automated testing, documentation standards, source control, CI/CD.
• Drive last-mile architecture with Data Engineering: semantic layers, curated data products, and certified datasets for reporting, AI enablement, and downstream apps.
• Define dimensional modeling standards and a scalable analytics code base with tested pipelines.
• Own the enterprise metric layer with governed definitions across consumption points.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on contracts, handoffs, and tooling; optimize warehouse performance and cost.
• Lead data governance: catalog, lineage, data quality, and access controls with platforms like Atlan/Collibra/Alation.

Skills

SQL

Dimensional modeling

ELT/ETL design

CI/CD

Git-based workflows

Data visualization platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Master's degree or MBA (preferred)

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

dbt

Atlan

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Domo

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Director to lead Enterprise Reporting and Analytics Engineering. You will shape the multi-year strategy, build an organization of ~30, and partner with Data Science, Data Engineering, and Product Management to deliver governed analytics and AI-enabled insights.

You’ll drive the last-mile data architecture, ensure quality across semantic models, and scale proactive analytics that inform business decisions while managing