Head of Data Platforms & Engineering at Pepperstone. Leading enterprise data strategy and overseeing global data teams in a fintech environment.
Responsibilities
Lead and execute the enterprise data strategy and roadmap ensuring strong alignment to business goals.
Evolve our data architecture from warehouse to lakehouse and beyond enabling scalable modern and future ready platforms.
Drive the organisation’s shift toward data product ownership stewardship and data driven decision making.
Build coach and inspire global teams across data engineering data platforms data systems and governance.
Oversee and modernise data infrastructure tools and systems transitioning from legacy technologies to next generation solutions.
Partner closely with senior leaders across the business translating complex data initiatives into clear compelling business narratives.
Collaborate with AI business analytics and BI teams to strengthen foundational analytics and support enterprise wide insight generation.
Ensure robust data governance regulatory compliance and alignment with our data protection obligations.
Champion data literacy and foster a culture of curiosity engagement and continuous learning.
Play an active leadership role in the broader technology organisation modelling Pepperstone’s values and leadership behaviours.
Requirements
Bring 10+ years across data systems engineering or architecture roles and 5 plus years in senior technology leadership.
Proven experience leading high performing globally distributed data teams.
Deep expertise in modern data architecture and technologies such as Snowflake Redshift dbt Fivetran Airflow Iceberg and Alation.
Hands on programming capability in languages such as Python Spark Scala or Golang for data engineering use cases.
Strong background in streaming and event pipelines and integration patterns including Kafka Flink and APIs.
Experience in regulated Financial Services or FinTech is highly desirable.
Executive level communication and stakeholder influencing skills able to shape conversations negotiate priorities and build strong cases for investment.
Strategic innovative and commercially minded leadership style.
A passion for technology problem solving and enabling teams to move fast with confidence.
Benefits
Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
Flexible and hybrid working
Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard
Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
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