- Leading a team of Engineers to build and support the company’s ‘crown jewels’ enterprise data platform, to enable corporate divisions and functions to focus on providing real value for customers.- Working with Architects and SMEs to agree the technology strategy, roadmap and implementation plans for execution.- Developing strong relationships with internal / external business partners, engineering, product and data science teams.- Driving the evolution of a core enterprise data platform in Azure, offering shared services within a federated environment, to enable product divisions across Kantar to build customer-facing analytical solutions.- Leading a reduction in engineering efforts for product engineering teams using the core platform through eliminating cross-cutting challenges, baking in computational patterns and governance into the platform, driving accelerated autonomous product delivery within the required guardrails.- Managing and overseeing the delivery of solutions that drive automation, through effective technical and delivery governance in line with the data strategy.- Chairing regular performance meetings and sharing best practice through an engineering community of practice.- Facilitating staff coaching, training and mentoring to enable progression and personal development to achieve potential.

- Led a team of ~80 personnel (supplier/perm) to manage the company’s engineering and data platforms in line with requirements.- Coordinated the building and operating of enterprise level data solutions within agreed timeframes and managed budgets as well as supplier relationships effectively.- Worked closely with business and IT teams to deliver new data-centric products and services to meet operational needs.- Engaged in activities to continually optimise ways of working and influenced strategic decisions relating to building out and transforming the company’s data platform / engineering capabilities, with the support of 3rd party partners and software vendors.