Director - Big Data / Data Engineering

Reference: BH-164106

My Client is a home grown MNC organisation leading in its space. They have embarked on a digital journey which also includes increasing their footprint in new geographies and are hiring extensively. Data being the key driver for their business vision they are hiring for a Big Data Director Role in Singapore.

Ideally looking at someone who comes with a strong Big data environment leading teams successfully and is happy to fold his sleeves and guide the team simultaneously for architecting the new data platform, delivery of internal projects and supporting the BAU operations.
Strong distributed team leading and vendor management experience
Permanent Opportunity with strong benefits

Role & Responsibilities

Define and govern Big Data strategy, architecture, and roadmap
Drive, lead, and align new capabilities in Big Data and Data Integration across the group
Lead and manage Big Data development and operations teams
Track and monitor vendor’s SLA performance
Develop multi-year IT investment roadmaps that link to the Group IT strategy
Define standards and guidelines for development and operations
Build, maintain, and improve strong relationship with business leaders, Group IT domains (departments) and IT service providers to deliver value via data & represent Group IT at assigned project and / or program steering committees
Promote a DevOps culture through building relationships with development & operations and driving enhancements to the end-to-end release process
Hire, develop, evaluate, reward, and retain a highly qualified team Responsibilities
Build up new capabilities for Big Data to support business initiatives
Overall responsible for delivery and operations for Big Data functions
Lead the application support teams comprise of internal IT professionals and IT service providers in managing, monitoring, and optimizing of Big Data Platforms to ensure these applications meet the agreed SLA agreed with business
Troubleshoot Big Data platforms and software, including performance-tunes of BI applications

Key Requirements

At least 12 years of experience in big data, data warehousing, BI & reporting and / or data management, including at least 8 years of experience in managing BI or big data development and operations team
Experience in managing and driving outsourced vendors to delivery and operations objectives • Hands-on experience in handling incident, problem, configuration, capacity, and availability management
Successfully implemented large-scale data warehouse / data lake
Expert in building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines
Experience in data management, data architecture and design
Strong technical knowledge of data integrations, ETL and data warehouse data modelling
Strong knowledge of BI reporting tools & Strong knowledge of SQL
Experience with DevOps tools and environment
Experience in building an enterprise level data analytics capability.
Experience in leading complex, major change initiatives, skills in change management

EA Personnel No. R1767372
BeathChapman Pte Ltd
EA Licence: 16S8112

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