Head of Data

- Own, develop, and deliver the Societys data strategy, driving quality, trust, governance, and value from the organisations data assets - Partner with senior leaders to embed data into decision-making, customer experience, risk management, and operational resilience - Act as the enterprise owner for our Azure and Fabric data platforms and Microsoft Purview governance environment - Oversee architecture, roadmap, and optimisation across Azure Data Lake, Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, SQL, Fabric Lakehouse, and Power BI - Ensure data platforms meet regulatory and best-practice expectations (GDPR, PRA/FCA, DAMA) - Lead the enterprise data governance framework, ensuring strong controls, quality, lineage, metadata, and lifecycle management - Oversee Purview as the single source of truth for classification, compliance, lineage, and sensitive data management - Lead a modern engineering practice delivering secure, scalable data pipelines and lakehouse structures in Azure and Fabric - Own enterprise data architecture, including integration patterns, domains, and semantic models, ensuring alignment with key change programmes and third-party platforms - Drive enterprise analytics using Power BI, Fabric workloads, and Azure AI/ML - Enable predictive modelling, operational analytics, and responsible AI adoption - Build and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary data team - Champion data literacy across the organisation and represent the Society with partners, auditors, and regulators