IT Applications & Data Director

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the role is responsible for enterprise application & Data capabilities (inception, through design, implementation, maintained and retiral). This is a new function, therefore the incumbent will be responsible for building this function from the ground up, defining a strategy and leading a team to execute that strategy that results in a mature function.

Qualities, skills and experience required:

• Proven track record of having successfully led a team to deliver a strategic roadmap that matured applications & data capabilities (including framework, policies, processes and standards) to best practice levels.
• Significant experience of implementing and achieving enterprise-wide adoption of data technology platforms including master data management, active metadata management, digital data catalogue, enterprise BI, AI/ML, data lake and data warehousing environments.
• Must have excellent skills and knowledge in Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Tableau and Power BI. Workday would be beneficial.
• Excellent skills and knowledge of applications & data frameworks, methodologies and capabilities to subject matter expert level including: SDLC, Agile Software Development. AWS, Azure and relevant data technologies including data warehouses, data lakes and ETL tools.
• Statistical skills, data warehousing, big data and modern data processing platforms, advanced analytics, modelling, machine learning. Application, data and cloud infrastructure architecture. Data governance and master data management. Robotics Process Automation.
• Excellent leadership skills; leading a high-performing team with excellent employee engagement, coaching and employee development.
• Excellent Project Management (Agile & Waterfall) skills & experience, highly certified or at least able to demonstrable subject matter expert equivalent competency & knowledge.
• ITIL certified (at least v3) or at least able to demonstrable equivalent competency & knowledge.
• Lean Six Sigma certified (at least green belt) or at least able to demonstrate equivalent competency & knowledge.
• Architecture certified (e.g. TOGAF) or at least able to demonstrable equivalent competency & knowledge.