Work with senior stakeholders across IT, product, marketing and editorial to develop a combined roadmap delivering to business goals for subscription businesses across the portfolio. Align data strategy to this roadmap and prioritise activity based on short term tactical value and long term strategic gain. Focus areas:● Centralised, cross brand customer data platform ● Analytics framework● Data governance and compliance framework● Team structure and organisational transformation

Reporting into the Group CTO, I am responsible for the development and delivery of data and analytics strategies for the operating globally across the group. In that capacity I work directly with each business to understand and deliver against their strategic plans, and I will often take a seconded role within a business, acting as their data and/or technical lead for extended periods.● Redesigning legacy data architecture and lifecycle management into a modern, scalable process aligned to technology and business transformation● Implementing a structured analytics framework, providing detailed data and insight on products, customers, and key business metrics/KPIs● Ensuring robust compliance with data governance requirements (such as GDPR and other privacy regulations) without diluting the effectiveness to the business● Delivering API first solutions into product development pipelines to accelerate and enhance revenue creation, open new markets, and increase product velocity● Leading teams and managing stakeholder requirements through rapid transformation through leadership and coaching

Focus areas:● API data services, including the first versions of authentication services that would later scale across the portfolio● Global schema creation● Master data management across energy and property assets● Migrate on premise data solutions to the cloud● Restructuring organisational responsibility across development and data functions to create a central capability servicing internal business units

Strategic and Leadership● Report into the CTO as part of the Technology Senior Leadership Team● Responsible for the recruitment and management of a high performing, agile team of 25 data professionals● Budget accountability● Thought leadership and promoting Data as a centre of excellence throughout the group. ● Define and implement the data strategy and governance program● Supervise the creation of a data and metadata API environment, removing product and development dependencies from the data lifecycle.● Manage significant change for the Data Department to make it accountable for its wider remit and become fit-for-purpose to facilitate and support major technology changes in the group● Manage the transformation of legacy and acquired data management and governance processes to the central model● Oversee the evaluation and adoption of technology solutions across the data lifecycle● Manage the suitability and creation of data models and aggregates ● Work directly with product managers, development teams and customers across multiple markets to ensure data and information requirements are understood, met and are compliant throughout the product development lifecycleData Commercials and Research This area is responsible for:● Acquisition of data assets● Supplier relationship management● A regular contributor to the government data agenda● Contract negotiations● Contractual and legislative compliance including adherence to DPA and GDPR for personal data assets● Research and evaluation of data sourcesData Lifecycle ManagementResponsible for the full lifecycle of all data across the group including● Governance & compliance● Data architecture● Information security● Metadata management● Ingestion/ETL● Quality● Master data management● Modelling and analytics● Business Information● Business Transformation relative to data management● Common service APIs

Build on the success of data governance within Landmark Environment, Legal and Mapping areas and influence the technology function to build data governance processes into the application development lifecycle.Extend this remit into the other Landmark business areas, mainly the Financial Risk area focussing on services to support lender and valuation clients.Ensure the appropriate integration and management of multiple datasets across processes and products. Providing consultancy to UK’s leading financial risk solution providers and utilities on the integration of AddressBase into their products and processes. Internally responsible for address matching in excess of a hundred datasets to various address and non-address related base geographies.Creating efficient delivery of data from multiple datasets to internal and external customers in multiple formats often requiring the application of technology and data in unusual and innovative ways.