Head of Data Operations and DBA IND (India)

PROFILE - Minimum of 15+ years of experience in data management - Experience managing globally distributed technology teams\ platforms with an added advantage of working with UK & India Stakeholders - Robust leadership experience and ability to manage and mentor team of data specialists. - Strong presentation, articulation skills and Agile Delivery experience - Track record of operating and presenting to senior leadership level CDO, CTO, CIO - Experience managing delivery budgets (up to multi-million s), defining OKRs - Experience in capacity management, hiring, training, staffing, capability building - Setting up and driving the local operating model for data teams. - Defining governance/controls framework covering data security, ownership, quality, regulations in line with group policy and standards - Deep digital technology expertise including: - Strong architectural knowledge with one or more of Modern Data platforms (on-prem\ cloud), Event Driven architectures and real-time or near-real-time data ingestion and consumption - Applied knowledge of data warehousing. - Strong background in modern data architectures\ platforms, cloud infrastructure and big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt or similar. - Experience of data platform migration projects. - Experience with database administration best practises and approaches - Data Platform development and integration (bespoke and package) - Data governance - Experience in delivering enterprise scale transformation while demonstrating breadth and depth of knowledge across a number of the listed technologies: - Java, Scala, Scala, Python - Streaming and batch architecture (e.g., Kafka, Kafka streams, Spark, Flink) - SQL, NoSQL and NewSQL (e.g., MS-SQL, Mongo) - Cloud Services (e.g., MS Azure, GCP) - Strong academic background in a relevant discipline - Openness to travel to Hyderabad or the UK as part of the role Responsibilities - Leading aspects of design, development, and maintenance of data operations and database management approach. - Ensuring the availability, scalability and performance of data pipelines. - Implementing processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available to key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it. - Ensuring sufficient testing and observability of data pipelines exists and metadata capture, data lineage tracking, and data cataloguing is in place. - Supporting the enablement of self-service analytics capability within other functions. - Inspiring, developing, and managing a high-performing team of data operations and DBA professionals. - Identifying and implementing new solutions and technologies to improve the company's data analytics capabilities. - Collaborating with analytics and business teams to improve data that feed business intelligence tools and data science, increase data accessibility and foster data-driven decision making across the organisation. - Cooperating with wider IT and other departments to ensure data security and compliance of solutions. - Managing the platform and delivery of our external transformation and solution consulting services partner(s) to make sure they deliver to our requirements. - Contributing to a comprehensive data strategy that aligns with the company's overall goals and objectives. - Staying up to date with the latest data management and DBA trends. - Building and maintaining relationships with external data vendors and partners. - Actively collaborate with the India Leadership to propel the GCC Maturity Journey of the organisation - Build the second line leadership within the larger Data team into a self-performing , high capability leadership - Represent OSBI at key Industry forums as part of the branding journey of Technology. - Drive OSBI Specific Initiatives while aligning and actively engaging the Groups stakeholders. .