Data Platform Manager

This is a high impact opportunity for a Data Platform Manager to take genuine ownership within a business that sees data as a core commercial driver. You will play a key role in shaping and managing a modern enterprise data platform, supporting large scale analytics, AI, and self service capabilities across international markets., * Own and manage the strategic direction of the enterprise data platform, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and aligned to business priorities

• Drive platform roadmap planning and continuous improvement initiatives across data infrastructure, tooling, governance, and operational processes
• Work closely with data engineering, analytics, architecture, and business teams to deliver a high performing and accessible data environment
• Oversee the management and optimisation of the Databricks platform and wider cloud data ecosystem
• Promote best practice across platform architecture, data governance, security, monitoring, and operational support
• Support platform ownership responsibilities including incident management, service performance, and operational governance
• Enable scalable self service analytics capabilities for business users and market teams
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to prioritise platform enhancements and communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly
• Ensure the platform supports evolving analytics, reporting, and AI driven use cases across the organisation

• Strong commercial experience managing or developing modern cloud based data platforms
• Hands on exposure to Databricks, with the ability to challenge and guide technical decisions
• Broader understanding of cloud data ecosystems, with exposure to platforms such as Azure Synapse Analytics or Snowflake being beneficial
• Strong understanding of data platform architecture, governance, scalability, and operational management
• Comfortable working across engineering, analytics, architecture, and business teams
• Confident communicator able to influence senior stakeholders and manage complex discussions
• Experience supporting large scale data platform, data warehouse, or data lake transformation programmes
• Understanding of enabling self service analytics and improving platform adoption across a business
• No sponsorship offered

They are a fast growing, value driven telecommunications business focused on scaling through digital, data, and analytics. Data and analytics are viewed as critical to long term enterprise value, with ongoing investment into real time data, AI enabled use cases, and self service analytics.