Job Title
Chief Data Officer

• Establishing and maintaining the departmental vision and culture
• Designing, implementing, and advancing capabilities to better discover and exploit our data assets.
• Collaborate with department heads to ensure a strategic and integrated use of data across the organisation.
• Establishing the processes to define how data quality targets are achieved, delivering trusted data to support the group strategy.
• Data ownership governance and maintaining data standards, policies, and principles.
• Delivery of a modern data platform architecture and infrastructure, collaborating with technical and system experts to optimise data management.
• Continually assess and improve our legacy data position.
• Operational fitness a (EOL, Incidents, problems, vulnerabilities, security etc) Ensuring the day-to-day technology services within the Client Technology domain are fit for purpose and aligned to the overall IG risk appetite and are yielding the desired results for our clients

• Build an effective and motivational team environment, aligning behaviours, values and performance expectations across the function.
• Sustain a high degree of employee engagement throughout the teams and embed a culture of continuous improvement, thereby enabling a step-change in performance.
• Deploy appropriate talent development strategies to ensure the best possible talent pipeline for now and the future.
• Works as part of the Extended IT Leadership Team to achieve collective success for IG IT and helps shape and develop long term direction of the function.
• Ensure effective communication at all levels both internally and externally, providing briefings to all team members on business strategies, performance and priorities.
• Shares accountability and decision-making for direction of IG's IT as a critical business unit for the Group.

• Foster a culture of modern working practices within the Data Engineering department.
• Instill the culture of continuous improvement and automation into the infrastructure Teams.
• Create and nurture a data as a service for IG Group, enabling line of business functions to efficiently consume shared services.
• Drive a culture of engineering and innovation within technology.

• Maintain the currency, functionality and affordability of the group's Data Technology, ensuring a multiyear roadmap is in place that develops the infrastructure to deliver the Group Data Strategy.
• Deliver a multi-year change roadmap via an ongoing annual portfolio of change projects, successfully delivered to time, quality and cost.

• Manage the Opex and Capex budgets for the department. Ensure budgets are planned appropriately and met within the financial year.
• Deliver a multi-year change roadmap via an ongoing annual portfolio of change projects, successfully delivered to time, quality and cost.

• Lead and Inspire: Drives trust, alignment, and enthusiasm
• Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes
• Champion the client: Understand and prioritise client's needs
• Deliver at pace: Push for fast, sustainable growth;
• Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback

• A dynamic and ambitious leader who demonstrates a level of gravitas commensurate with a senior leadership role, while also being able to engage effectively at all levels of the organisation.
• Provides clear vision and direction, inspiring and engaging individuals and the team to deliver excellence.
• Demonstrates sound and pragmatic judgement, balancing pace, risk and business value to reach decisions which are well informed, rigorous and actionable.
• Leads with determination and drive, taking initiative willingly, acting with both sensitivity and self-assurance to achieve results.
• Respects individuals' views and positively encourages and contributes to a learning environment in which individuals are supported to develop to their full potential and excel in role.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and influence with key stakeholders based on professional credibility and excellent communication and engagement.
• Highly structured thinker, able to define how to approach the business question and execute appropriate analysis.

• Championed a data-as-a-product operating model , introducing product management principles to data pipelines, platforms, and services.
• Led the end-to-end delivery of reusable data products , including customer 360 views, ML feature stores, and real-time analytics layers.
• Established data product ownership roles and SLAs, enhancing trust and adoption of data assets across business units.
• Built cross-functional squads to deliver domain-specific data products aligned with business outcomes and federated governance principles (inspired by Data Mesh).
• Designed productized data APIs and self-serve interfaces, enabling internal teams to consume data with minimal engineering support.
• Implemented usage analytics and feedback loops to continuously improve data products based on user adoption and impact metrics.
• Experience in running multinational, distributed data teams at scale.
• A proven track record of creating, adapting, and developing a growing data practice focused on outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience in developing and executing data strategies that have driven real value in the organisations they serve.
• Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to influence senior leadership.
• Excellent understanding and working knowledge of modern data architecture, including databases, data lakes, warehouses, and pipelines.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and running data platforms in public and private cloud - GCP and/or AWS (former is preferred)
• Strong experience with some of the following languages and data technologies: Java, Python, SQL, Confluent Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Beam, REST, Spring, Spring boot, Apache Tomcat, JMS, Gitlab and DBT

• Competitive salary
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
• Performance-related bonuses & LTIP
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance