Leadership Responsibilities/ Key Stakeholders
- Create Possibilities: You will need to identify ways to make things happen and have the energy and know how to implement.
- Create the conditions for people to succeed: Guide internal and external collaborators from a functional perspective and demonstrate exceptional leadership around the Diageo values and behaviours
- Grow yourself and others: Be able to engage and energise people to provide great service experience. Be enthusiastic –wants to make an impact. Be able to stay positive and overcome setbacks.
- Be Authentic: Always acts with integrity. Focuses on what's important. Seeks feedback and acts upon it.
- Making recommendations to leadership and implementing new ideas, improvements, technologies and new products.
- Managing analytics team members and projects. Delegating work effectively (internal/partners)
Purpose of Role
- Own and constantly develop a value stream specific (domain) data visualization product portfolio in alignment with technological and business priorities
- Accountable for end-to-end build of Analytics Products that meet Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering and Data Visualisation standards
- Formulate deep understanding of end-to-end data flow and technical architecture for all products in value stream significantly shaping solution design of products
- Define data model in line with architecture standards to best fulfil business requirements and creates scalable, sustainable, enterprise-grade BI solution.
- Act as technical lead of agile POD team developing robust BI solution: forming the right discovery and delivery teams and coordinating (internal and 3rd party) BI developers, Junior Developers, and Business Analysts
- Steering the team in DevOps, including code review and acceptance of tasks and backlog items
- Accountable for Service Introduction and BAU setup process
- Works with Head of Data Visualisation and Lead Architects to apply and enhance Data Visualisation Standards e.g. model types
- Works closely with Product Line leads to provide architecture coverage for assigned Analytics Products
- Acts as Tier 3 – i.e., data model-level – BAU support
- Responsible for support and respective coordination of BI developers within Product team
Top 3-5 Accountabilities
Technical acumen:
- Technical Leadership for new Analytics Product builds and Change projects
- Oversee and optimize Data Visualisation Architecture for assigned Analytics Products within value stream (domain)
- Deep insight into end-to-end data flow for Analytics Products in value stream
- Tier 3 BAU support
- Feedback and enhancement of architecture and data model standards owned by Lead Architects
Business Acumen
- Experience working with Marketing, advertising and first party consumer data e.g. Ability to bring together data points to create customer profiles and inform activation
- An understanding of marketing drivers and levers of efficiency
- Ability to build close relationships with business stakeholders in Marketing domain rooted in driving data & analytics led innovation
Required
Qualifications and Experience Required
- Multiple years of proven experience in complex development of BI solutions – preferably on Azure architecture
- Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering/Economics/Statistics. Preferably master's in IT/Engineering/Economics/Statistics.
- Hands-on working experience as Lead Developer, with complex BI Product build including data modelling
- Extensive knowledge of DAX & M language (Power query), defining and configuring coding standards and security model within Power BI models (RLS)
- Demonstrated expertise in data acquisition, processing, storage, and modelling for visual analytics (preferably Azure SQL, ADF and DataBricks)
- Good Understanding of Azure BI architecture and Azure resources
- In depth of knowledge of Microsoft Azure platform, cloud data pipelines, ADLS, ADB, Synapse
- Experience in detailed technical documentation and challenging/defining standards
- Experience in building and navigating complex business relationships while ensuring products are designed for optimal user experience and have measurable criteria for success
- Experience with ADO, Jira, or similar DevOps solutions, including CI/CD
- Experience with Agile and SAFe methodologies a plus
- Open and willing to deepen solution architecture and data modelling skills
- Flexible, dynamic personality who works well partnering/collaborating in a matrixed team environment
- English language proficiency
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
- Need to obtain AZ305 certificate in 18 months time
Advantage
- Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets, including CSV, TXT, JSON, and XML - advantage
- Experience working with Design team (XD/UI) Developed reports/dashboard upon design templets, wireframe, figma screens
- Demonstrated currency in user experience and visualization best practices and evolving trends, technologies, and techniques.
