Data Platform and Product Lead

Data Platform and Product Lead

Microsoft Fabric | Python | PySpark | Product-Led Delivery | Agile | Data & Analytics

Competitive Salary and Package

Location: Remote-first, with occasional travel to a UK office.

The Opportunity

An excellent opportunity for an experienced data platform leader to join a global, multi-division organisation at a pivotal point in its technology transformation.

As part of a newly established Enterprise Applications & Data Enablement function, you will own the Group’s data platform strategy, building a modern, scalable capability that enables better decision-making, insight and innovation.

This is a strongly product-led role. Working closely with internal customers, stakeholders and divisional teams, you will understand their needs and build a roadmap that delivers genuine business value. You will champion an agile, iterative approach, introducing capabilities in manageable increments, gathering feedback and evolving the platform based on demand. A key part of the role is bringing the organisation with you, driving adoption and showing how trusted data can transform the way people work.

You will build the capability, team, roadmap and ways of working for a platform that supports the Group’s global ambitions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the product vision, strategy and roadmap for the enterprise data platform, aligned with wider business and technology objectives.
• Lead development of a modern, scalable cloud data platform using Microsoft Fabric, Python and PySpark, creating foundations for trusted data, advanced analytics, self-service reporting and AI.
• Engage internal customers to understand business challenges and translate them into prioritised platform capabilities and outcomes.
• Build strong relationships across Group functions and divisions, creating buy-in for a more data-driven organisation.
• Establish agile delivery practices: prioritised backlogs, iterative releases and continuous improvement.
• Balance long-term architecture with tangible business value and early wins.
• Drive adoption, ensuring capabilities are accessible, relevant and actively used.
• Work with the Chief Data Officer and governance teams on standards for data quality, ownership, security and accessibility.
• Enable divisional teams through shared platforms, products and standards, while retaining appropriate local autonomy.
• Support the growth of analytics, data science and AI capabilities, providing environments to innovate and scale responsibly.
• Oversee platform performance, reliability, security, vendor relationships and consumption-based costs.
• Build and develop a high-performing team and the operating model to support the roadmap.

About You

You are an experienced data and technology leader who combines strong platform knowledge with a commercial, customer-focused, product-oriented mindset. You understand that data transformation is about more than technology: it’s about understanding business needs, engaging people and delivering measurable change.

Essential Experience

• Significant experience leading enterprise data platforms, products or capabilities in a complex organisation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong Python or PySpark skills, able to guide and challenge engineering approaches.
• Experience building modern cloud-based data platforms and architectures.
• A product mindset: defining vision, strategy and roadmaps, and prioritising requirements.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders to shape solutions and drive adoption.
• Strong grasp of agile delivery, including backlogs, prioritisation and continuous improvement.
• Experience delivering enterprise analytics and reporting, including Power BI.
• Understanding of data architecture, quality and governance.
• Experience enabling self-service analytics, data science and AI/ML.
• A track record of taking platforms from concept to live operation.
• Experience in federated or multi-division environments, balancing Group standards with local needs.
• Proven leadership, including building teams and developing talent.

Desirable

• Azure and modern data architecture experience.
• Exposure to data integration, APIs and enterprise integration.
• Experience in engineering-led or asset-intensive sectors.
• Relevant Microsoft, analytics or product management certifications.
• Eligibility for UK security clearance.

What You’ll Bring

You are commercially aware, curious and passionate about data’s potential. You enjoy building relationships as much as shaping technology, and you’re comfortable challenging traditional approaches and influencing senior stakeholders. Collaborative, pragmatic and outcomes-focused, you can turn a long-term vision into an achievable roadmap. Above all, you understand that a data platform is a product the business must adopt and get value from, not something IT simply builds and runs.

Why Apply?

Build a modern enterprise data platform from the ground up, with Group-wide influence. You’ll have the autonomy to shape the vision, build the team, influence the technology roadmap and work directly with business leaders to change how the organisation uses data.

To apply, or for a confidential conversation, please send your latest CV.