Head of Data

  • Xpertise
  • Jan 26, 2026
Full time Telecommunications

Job Description

Head of Enterprise Data Delivery
Hybrid | £85,000 + benefits | UK - choice of five office locations

We're hiring a Head of Enterprise Data Delivery to take end-to-end ownership of our enterprise data estate, spanning Data Platform, Data Products, and Data Governance.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll build momentum, remove blockers, and ensure our teams consistently deliver trusted, production-ready data assets that power reporting, analytics and decision-making across the organisation.

What you'll lead

You'll head up a growing team of 6 across Data Engineering, Data Products and Data Governance. Your remit includes:

  • Owning delivery across the full enterprise data life cycle
  • Establishing clear plans, milestones and delivery discipline
  • Driving urgency, progress and standards across teams
  • Providing credible technical leadership across engineering, modelling & governance
  • Ensuring our Azure-based data platform, pipelines and data products are scalable, robust and well-documented
  • Embedding governance, lineage, MDM and audit-readiness into delivery
  • Partnering with BI, Innovation, IT & Transformation teams to enable data-driven outcomes
About you

We're looking for someone who thrives in pace, ambiguity, and complex environments. You'll bring:

  • Experience leading multidisciplinary data teams
  • Strong foundations in modern cloud-native data engineering (Azure/Databricks ideal)
  • A delivery-first mindset with a bias to action
  • Clear communication and the ability to make decisive calls
  • Comfort turning ambiguity into structure
  • Credibility as a technical peer to architects and engineers
Why join?
  • Lead an enterprise-wide data transformation
  • High trust, high ownership leadership role
  • Hybrid working with the flexibility to work from one of five UK offices
  • Competitive package around £85k, plus benefits

If you want to build high-performing teams, modernise data estates, and deliver real outcomes at pace, we'd love to speak with you.