The Manager, Platforms & Data leads the internal data, cloud, and engineering-platform products that help Client’s teams turn operational data into better decisions and scale digital products, analytics, and AI. The role is accountable for the direction and performance of the platform portfolio, ensuring shared capabilities provide a clear value proposition, reliable service, and a strong user experience for delivery teams and business users.
- Set priorities across data, cloud, and engineering-platform roadmaps, aligning shared capabilities with user needs and the business outcomes they enable.
- Hold product and service owners accountable for adoption, user experience, reliability, and performance throughout each product’s lifecycle.
- Continuously improve platforms based on adoption, time to value, reuse, service reliability, and economics, changing or retiring offerings that no longer justify investment.
- Build trusted, reusable data and AI-ready platform capabilities that enable teams to develop and scale analytics, models, and AI-enabled services.
- Work with domain leaders and data stewards to establish source-data ownership and improve the quality needed for priority products and use cases.
- Partner with IT Architecture on technology and integration patterns, and with cybersecurity teams to build appropriate controls into platform services.
- Oversee external technology partners to ensure quality delivery, successful implementation, and effective knowledge transfer, while collaborating with relevant stakeholders on vendor selection, contract management, and project funding.
- Develop cost-effective technology strategies by evaluating commercial solutions and internal development opportunities, while improving cloud cost management, resource utilization, and financial transparency.
- Develop data and platform capability, improve engineering and service performance, and lead practical use of AI in delivery and operations.
Role Requirements:
- Relevant education in engineering, computer science, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Minimum 7 – 10 years of relevant experience, including substantial leadership of internal data and platform products with demonstrable adoption and value, and leadership of data and cloud or engineering-platform teams.
- Experience directing external partners, improving shared-service performance, building AI enabling data and platform capabilities, and using AI to improve engineering or operations.
- Experience in mining, processing, energy, manufacturing, or another asset-intensive environment is advantageous; proven leadership of platform and data products and teams is the key requirement.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stage of the selectionprocess.