Tech Area Lead Data

Nedap; Groenlo; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

Pension scheme

Profit sharing

Shareholder opportunity

Flexible working hours

Work-life balance

Job summary

Nedap seeks a Tech Area Lead Data to shape the technical vision for data within Livestock. You will guide data platforms, pipelines and analysis to extract scalable value from data in the cloud and at the edge, spanning IoT, computer vision and hardware.

You will lead cross-disciplinary teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Computer Vision Engineers to turn data into valuable insights and robust, future-ready solutions for farmers worldwide.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in Data Science and/or Data Engineering.
• Experience leading data teams and shaping data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the technical vision and roadmap for Data.
• Ensure coherence, scalability and future-proofing of data solutions.
• Provide guidance to data disciplines and align teams with the data vision.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, data analysts and computer vision engineers.
• Create sustainable technical solutions and working methods.

Job description

What are you going to do?

As Tech Area Lead Data, you will shape the technical vision and strategy for data within Livestock. Together with your team, you will determine how we further develop our data architecture, platforms and technical solutions, so that we can continue to derive value from our data in a scalable and sustainable way in the future.

Our Livestock system connects what happens on the farm with our cloud environment. IoT, computer vision, hardware and edge computing generate large volumes of data. This data helps us to provide dairy farmers worldwide with ever-better insights into their animals, processes and business operations.

In this role, you will ensure that our data capability is ready for the next step. You will bring together the expertise of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Computer Vision Engineers, and help them work together to turn data into valuable insights. In this way, you will help build technology that enables dairy farmers to better support their businesses and their animals.

Your responsibilities

Technical Product Area Architect

Architectural context

You will acquire and apply in-depth knowledge of the architectural context within Livestock, both in a broad sense and specifically in relation to data platforms, tooling and pipelines.

Technical vision and roadmap

You will develop and maintain the technical vision and strategic development roadmap for Data.

Strategic coherence

You will ensure the coherence, scalability and future-proofing of our technical choices within the data domain.

Technical leadership

You will provide substantive guidance to the various data disciplines, bring their expertise together and help teams make choices that align with the technical vision for Data.

Sustainable solutions

You work closely with the teams to create sustainable technical solutions and working methods.

Data strategy

You develop and maintain the vision and strategy for data pipelines, data platforms and analysis.

Quality and repeatability

You challenge the teams to extract insights from data and develop new models in a high-quality and repeatable manner.

Your team

As Tech Area Lead Data, you form part of the TLT (Technical Leadership Team) alongside the Tech Area Leads (Software and Hardware), the Head of Tech, and with the support of the Agile Coach. Together, you are responsible for the overall technical strategy and vision. You are also closely involved in the data disciplines.

Together with the People Captains, you and the TLT form part of CaptainsXL and help translate the strategy from the Head of Tech to the teams. You share leadership with the People Captains regarding the people within self-organising teams, while contributing the subject-matter and technical perspective.

You will also work closely with our Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Computer Vision Engineers. You will act as a subject-matter sparring partner for them and help connect the various disciplines.

What's in it for you?

As a Tech Area Lead Data at Nedap, you will make a valuable contribution to our goal: making people happier and more successful in their professional lives.

In addition to your salary, you are entitled to a thirteenth month, a good pension scheme, and profit sharing with the opportunity to become a shareholder of Nedap. At Nedap, everything revolves around trust and autonomy. That's why, along with your colleagues, you decide on your own working hours and vacation days to maintain a healthy work-life balance. We also highly value personal and professional growth. You will receive a comprehensive introduction, and we encourage you to continuously develop yourself.

Required skills

As Tech Area Lead Data, you are responsible for translating business requirements into a technical vision and strategy. You then work with the teams to translate this into a technical roadmap. You have strong decision-making and communication skills and are able to bring people and teams together. You offer constructive criticism and are committed to quality. You are proactive in looking ahead and identifying promising opportunities. You also have a clear vision of what the architecture and implementation should look like. Furthermore, you are able to understand what people in the data discipline are working on and act as a sparring partner. You ask the right questions and, drawing on your professional expertise, provide valuable input for, amongst other things, the TechVision, TechReview and discussions on the development, recognition and positioning of people within the discipline, in close collaboration with the People Captains.

In addition, you recognise yourself in the following:

• Data experience: You have at least 5 years' experience in an operational role within Data Science and/or Data Engineering. You have a good understanding of the various data disciplines and are able to provide substantive coaching to colleagues within these disciplines.


• Leadership experience: You have at least 3 years' experience in a leadership or coaching role. As a technical leader, you provide direction for the field and make a significant contribution to the development and performance of staff within the CaptainsXL team.


• Architecture and strategy: You are able to develop a technical vision and translate this into concrete decisions, priorities and a long-term roadmap.


• Language skills: You have a good command of English. Proficiency in Dutch is preferred.

About Nedap

Nedap is a global leader in Digital Twin Technology, bridging the physical and digital worlds in Retail, Healthcare, Livestock, and Security.