Associate Director Data Platform & Operations
About This Role
As Associate Director Data Platform & Operations, you will lead the architecture and operations of a large-scale data platform supporting AI, data engineering, and analytics use cases.
You will oversee platform engineering, DevOps, and operations teams, ensuring the platform is scalable, reliable, cost-efficient, and enables self-service capabilities for downstream teams.
This role requires a highly technical leader who is hands-on, capable of driving platform modernisation while ensuring strong delivery, governance, and performance across a complex data ecosystem.
Discover the Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and operations across hybrid environments including Azure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and on-prem storage.
- Build and scale modern data platforms using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, Parquet, and distributed storage solutions.
- Drive CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and platform automation across data and AI environments.
- Implement observability frameworks including monitoring, logging, lineage, and alerting to ensure platform reliability.
- Own platform performance, scalability, and cost optimisation strategies (FinOps) across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Enable self-service capabilities for Data, AI, and BI teams to accelerate development and deployment.
- Manage end-to-end platform delivery, dependencies, production readiness, and performance benchmarking.
- Lead and mentor platform engineering, DevOps, and operations teams, embedding DataOps and DevOps best practices.
- Partner with senior stakeholders across technology and business functions to align platform strategy with organisational priorities
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