Manager, Data and Analytics

West Kowloon Cultural District Authority; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority is seeking an experienced Data Platform Lead to drive the design and delivery of our Enterprise Data Platform. You will lead a team of data professionals, coordinate with vendors, and ensure high quality, secure and cost-conscious implementations that support our arts, culture and entertainment vision.

You will implement data governance, establish a single source of truth, and guide stakeholders in adopting self-serve BI and insightful analytics.

Qualifications

• University degree in CS, Data Engineer, Data Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years in data management and analytics in large-scale org with at least 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong leadership and management skills leading a team of data professionals and data projects.
• Solid experience with data management and analytics tools including Anaconda, Jupyter, Python, Spark, NoSQL, Node.js, Tableau and cloud services.
• Understanding of data governance, quality control, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the data team and vendors to implement Enterprise Data Platform.
• Establish and execute data governance framework, policies, standards, and guidelines for IT data access and quality management.
• Establishing common-data-model design and enablement across applications, to ensure the reusability of the data and formulate the Single-Source-of-Truth for the Authority.
• Developing standards and best practices to build a robust BI solution and providing guidance to stakeholders on conceiving efficient approaches to developing business insight, enable self-serve BI and operational data reports.
• Supporting key analytical and digital transformation initiatives, prototype, and KPI visualizations to the stakeholders and management.
• Supporting business solutions holistically to ensure data and insights seamless integration with other application / infrastructure components; and
• Performing any other duties from time to time as reasonably assigned by the Authority.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Data governance

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Data Science / IT

Tools

Anaconda

Jupyter

Python

Spark

NoSQL

Node.js

Tableau

Cloud Services

Job description

The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority welcomes exceptional talent with a passion to realise the vision and mission of making the West Kowloon Cultural District a prime local and international destination for arts, culture and entertainment.

You will be responsible for:

• managing the team and vendor to implement Enterprise Data Platform, deliver successful system implementation with effectiveness, high quality, accuracy, security and cost control;
• establishing and executing on data governance framework, policies, standards, and guidelines for IT data access and quality management;
• establishing common-data-model design and enablement across applications, to ensure the reusability of the data and formulate the Single-Source-of-Truth for the Authority;
• developing standards and best practices to build a robust BI solution and providing guidance to stakeholders on conceiving efficient approaches to developing business insight, enable self-serve BI and operational data reports;
• supporting key analytical and digital transformation initiatives, prototype, and KPI visualizations to the stakeholders and management;
• supporting business solutions holistically to ensure data and insights seamless integration with other application / infrastructure components; and
• performing any other duties from time to time as reasonably assigned by the Authority.

You should:

• possess a recognised university degree or above in Computer Science, Data Engineer, Data Science or equivalent;
• have a minimum 10 years of data management and analytics in large-scale organisation with at least 3 years in supervisor role;
• have strong leadership and management skills, with experience leading a team of data professionals and data projects;
• have solid experience in data management and analytics software with technologies like Anaconda, Jupyter, Python, Spark, NoSQL, Node.js, Tableau and Cloud Services;
• have understanding of data governance, quality control, and security best practices, establishing and enforcing data operating model and procedure;
• be able to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and external partners, and able to communicate and deliver business insights efficiently to non-technical stakeholders;
• have past track record driving digital transformation and similar data-driven initiatives, including model development covering segmentation, acquisition, cross-selling and related applications will be advantage;
• have experience in advanced analytics and machine learning frameworks such as Sagemaker, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar will be advantage;
• be able to build good relationships with different stakeholders across the organisation; and
• be proficient in written and spoken English and Chinese.

10-11-2026

For more information, please visit https://www.westk.hk or contact: