Head of Data / Python/AWS
New Today
We are a FTSE250 FinTech company who run mobile, web and desktop platforms that help our clients trade stocks & shares, leveraged products, Futures & Options and Crypto.
We're hungry to move faster, ship better product for our customers and grow our user base. The Data department is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining datasets, as well as the end-to-end data platform, to meet the data needs of the business.
The fundamental objective is to ensure the quality and trust of data, empowering data practitioners within the business and technology, through the implementation of data standards, policies and principles. This function plays a crucial role in helping accelerate IG on its journey to becoming a data-enabled organisation.
The Chief Data Officer is a senior technology role reporting to the CTO of Enterprise Technology Services. IG's data capabilities are a mixture of on-prem and off-prem services, and as such the role requires strong partnerships with several external vendors. 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.
Create and nurture a data as a service for IG Group, enabling line of business functions to efficiently consume shared services.
Data Technology Lifecycle/Change
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.
- Financial and Supplier Management
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.
We follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office -- which we think balances the need to collaborate effectively and connect with each other. When it comes to how we deliver, there are 5 things we want everyone to do to drive high performance, better learning and career satisfaction:
Think Big: Focus on the problems that most impact commercial outcomes
Raise the bar: Take ownership, be accountable and share feedback
Demonstrates sound and pragmatic judgement, balancing pace, risk and business value to reach decisions which are well informed, rigorous and actionable.
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.
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 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
We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation and sets us up for global success. We're committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realise our vision and strategy, that's why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey. Thrive with tailored development programs, mentoring opportunities with leaders, and clear career progression. Expand your network through committees, sports and social clubs. Enjoy extra time off for volunteering and community work.
As well as having the chance to attend regular social events and join special-interest groups, you get an attractive selection of benefits working with IG:
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
- Location:
- London
- Job Type:
- FullTime