Enterprise Data Platform Lead – Hybrid

Ready to lead the evolution of a global data platform that powers data-driven decision making across our global organisation?  

Imperial Brands are recruiting for an experienced Enterprise Data Platform Lead to define and drive the strategy, performance and continuous evolution of our Enterprise Data Platform (EDP). This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring our platform is secure, reliable, scalable and ready to support the growing needs of analytics, data products and AI initiatives across the business. 

Working with technology, data and business stakeholders globally, you'll adopt a platform-as-a-product mindset, balancing innovation, operational excellence and governance to deliver a platform that enables data-driven decision making at scale.  

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our enterprise data capability, influencing platform strategy, technology direction and data enablement across a global organisation. You'll play a critical role in ensuring our data platform remains resilient, scalable and ready to support the next generation of data and AI innovation.  

If you're passionate about platform leadership, operational excellence and enabling data at scale, we'd love to hear from you. 

Please note: This role is based at our Bristol HQ, where we work on a 50% hybrid working model.

Principle Accountabilities

• Define and deliver the Enterprise Data Platform strategy and roadmap, ensuring platform capabilities align with business priorities and future growth objectives.  
• Lead the development and evolution of platform services, ensuring they are secure, scalable, reliable and easy for teams to consume.  
• Drive operational excellence, overseeing platform performance, availability, incident management, service quality and continuous improvement initiatives 
• Establish and enforce platform governance, standards and guardrails, ensuring compliance with architectural, security and service management requirements.  
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, vendors and delivery teams to support platform adoption, modernisation and long-term sustainability.  
• Own platform investment and optimisation decisions, balancing innovation, cost, risk and technical debt to maximise business value and platform resilience 

Skills and Experience Required

• Significant experience in platform strategy, platform engineering, technology services, data platforms or related technology leadership roles.  

• Proven experience defining roadmaps, standards, governance models and service improvements within a complex enterprise environment.  

• Strong understanding of platform architecture, security, operational resilience, service management and technology delivery.  

• Experience working collaboratively across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Data and business functions to deliver successful outcomes.  

• Ability to balance innovation, risk, cost, reliability and business priorities while influencing stakeholders at all levels.  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with experience working in matrix and partner-led environments. 

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 [email protected] 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.