Data Platforms Lead

The Role

Ready to shape the future of enterprise data at scale? As Data Platforms Lead, you will play a critical role in defining and evolving the data platforms that power analytics, AI, and data-driven decision-making across the organisation. This is an opportunity to influence strategy, drive innovation, and create the foundations that unlock business value on a global scale. 

Working within an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees, you will lead the governance, lifecycle, and strategic direction of enterprise data platforms, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and fit for the future. Partnering with teams across Data & Technology, Security, Architecture, Governance, and Engineering, you will help deliver platform capabilities that enable growth, enhance control, and maximise the value of data across the business. 

Principle Accountabilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data platform guardrails, standards, and reference patterns, ensuring consistent and effective platform adoption across the organisation. 
• Own the governance and lifecycle of enterprise and domain data platforms, ensuring they remain secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to Data & AI and enterprise technology strategy. 
• Provide oversight of IBH platform delivery activities, ensuring solutions comply with established standards, architectural principles, and governance requirements. 
• Ensure platforms comply with security, data governance, privacy, and risk management requirements. 
• Drive platform and data standardisation across the enterprise, reducing fragmentation, and enabling Data Product and Data Asset teams through reusable capabilities, frameworks, and self-service tooling. 
• Monitor and continuously improve platform performance and value delivery, overseeing adoption, capacity, cost efficiency, operational health, and improvement backlogs. 

Skills and Experience Required

• Professional experience and qualifications in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Data, Cyber Security, Architecture, or a related discipline. 
• Significant experience across data and technology domains, including data, analytics, AI, data products, data platforms, governance, or data architecture, with a proven track record operating as a senior specialist, technical lead, product/platform lead, or process owner. 
• Demonstrable experience developing and managing strategic frameworks including roadmaps, standards, lifecycle plans, design guardrails, governance models, and service improvement plans within complex enterprise environments. 
• Strong practical understanding of enterprise technology delivery, including architecture principles, security, service management, operational resilience, and supplier or partner operating models. 
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary teams to develop pragmatic and sustainable solutions. 
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance innovation, cost, risk, reliability, compliance, and delivery feasibility. 

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.