Head of Data Technology

A well-known and highly prestigious charity organisation based in London is seeking to recruit a Head of Data Technology for an initial 6 month contract to enable and support a large programme of work taking place.
The Head of Data Technology will be accountable for the design, implementation, roll out and continuous improvement of fit-for-purpose data and data technology services and solutions. You'll provide leadership, direction, coaching and functional support to Technology data teams, and you'll work closely with senior data directors and the CTO across the charity to ensure that data initiatives can support and enable the direction and execution of the charity's data strategies and ultimately maximise the value of their contribution.

Essential skills -

• Strong experience with Snowflake and PowerBI.

• Proven track record of building, leading and developing cross-functional teams to drive value from data in large complex organisations.
• Experience of data enablement with experience of supporting a large migration from the current CRM to Salesforce as a key programme of work.

• Strong understanding of data management principles and practices, data engineering and modelling, and analytics and insight delivery and their ability to enable organisational value.

• Significant experience in creating and embedding new systems and processes which support improved fact-based decision making, digital marketing and operational engagement

• Proven full-lifecycle experience across full-suite data landscapes which may include data warehouse and data lakehouse solutions (e.g. Snowflake,) associated data ingestion, migration and management components, data visualisation tools, machine learning and AI applications in data management, and MDM, CRM and enterprise applications such as Salesforce.

• Strong understanding of cloud-based and on-premise system architectures, incorporating modern cloud-based as well as legacy components.
• Must have excellent communication and collaboration skills, team leadership and strong proven experience to lean on.

Key Duties and Responsibilities -

• Prioritise and guide day to day activities of the data engineering, data management, data governance and analytics and insight enablement teams, including setting direction and objectives, focus, and managing progress.
• Ensure all data needs are accurately captured, prioritised and incorporated into data platforms and products, and that service delivery meets required levels throughout.
• Collaborate across Technology teams, other charity directorate stakeholders and external partners, to design, implement and optimise a coherent data and analytics architecture, artefacts, platforms, solutions and infrastructure that will underpin and support the charity's move to more data-driven decision-making, and enable the organisation to meet its strategic objectives.
• Accountable for design, delivery and support of the charity's data foundations and platforms, including Technology-led initiatives underpinning / enabling key programmes.
• Organisational advocate and owner of the Data Governance framework, including responsibility for delivery of Organisation-Wide adoption of the framework.
• Shape and own the delivery roadmap and pipeline for data-related work, including delivery governance, and influence and drive direction on current and future approach to data within deliveries across the charity teams and partners.

1-2 days on site in London per week, to start asap, must be available next week for interview, £750/day inside IR35.