Head of Data Strategy leading and developing data initiatives for Zurich's GI Business. Focusing on data strategy, governance, and analytics while fostering collaboration across teams.
About the role
- 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
- 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave
- 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
- Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social
- Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne
- Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers
- A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas
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