Head of Data

Head of Data - Manchester - £120,000 The Company:Lorien Global are working in partnership with a company based in Manchester to hire a Head of Data into their leadership team. As the business travel into a transition phase, we need someone who has a confident technical knowledge and excellent leadership skills to guide the team through this time. The Role: The transition phase consists of various priorities to ensure the business can use data and develop its global solutions. Firstly to ensure the unification of couple teams ensuring they collaborate and work effectively, second we need to structure the future data strategy and how it aligns with the global ambition. Leading the Data Team we're looking for a candidate who has the knowledge of traditional data platforms and a passion and drive to push modernisation, utilising Big Data, Machine Learning, Cloud Services and AI. The Responsibilities:

• Proven background managing large, complex data teams and the knowledge how to lead transformative change across organisations
• Excellent technical background in Data Architecture, Database Administration with both relational (SQL/RDS/Oracle/etc.) and NoSQL solutions (MongoDB/DynamoDB/etc.)
• Solid understanding of data governance principles and how to implement these across the business
• Knowledge of Big Data technology (Spark/Hadoop/etc.)
• Excellent communication skills across various levels of stakeholders

Benefits:

• Salary available £120,000
• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced pension contribution available
• Genuine opportunity to impact transformative change
• Flexi-time hours and hybrid working from Manchester
• Annual leave plus bank holidays

We're interviewing for this position ASAP, should this sound of interest submit your CV now to be considered. IND_PC1

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.