Insights Platform & Assurance Lead

Lead the operational excellence of a large-scale cloud data platform in a complex enterprise environment. Your new company

We're partnering with a large enterprise organisation undertaking ongoing investment in its data and analytics capabilities. Supporting a diverse stakeholder group and a broad technology landscape, this organisation relies on high-quality, trusted data to drive business decision-making and service delivery.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Insights Platform Assurance Lead to join the team on an initial 12-month contract based in Brisbane, leading the ongoing operation, optimisation and continuous improvement of a modern cloud-based data platform.

Your new role

Reporting into senior data leadership, you will lead a specialist team responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance and ongoing enhancement of a large-scale enterprise data platform.

Working across data, analytics, architecture and technology teams, you will drive platform operations, service improvement initiatives and stakeholder engagement while helping establish best practice processes and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities include:

Leading the day-to-day operation and support of a cloud-based data and analytics platform

Monitoring platform performance, availability, security and cost optimisation

Managing incident response, problem management and root cause analysis activities

Driving continuous improvement initiatives across platform monitoring, automation and operational processes

Collaborating with engineering and architecture teams to improve platform capability and scalability

Establishing and reporting on service levels, operational metrics and platform performance

Coaching and developing a multidisciplinary team supporting enterprise data services

Building strong relationships with business, analytics and technology stakeholders across the organisation

What you'll need to succeed To be successful, you'll bring a blend of technical platform expertise, operational leadership and stakeholder engagement experience. You'll ideally demonstrate:

Experience leading data platform, data operations, analytics platform or data engineering functions within a large enterprise environment

Strong understanding of cloud-based data ecosystems, ideally across Azure and/or AWS technologies

Experience supporting production data platforms and managing operational service delivery

Knowledge of platform monitoring, performance optimisation, incident management and continuous improvement practices

Proven people leadership experience, including mentoring and developing technical teams

Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders alike

Experience working within complex, enterprise-scale environments with multiple business stakeholders

What you'll get in return

Long term contract, initial 12-month plus potential extensions

Senior role within a collaborative and high-performing data function

Opportunity to lead a critical enterprise platform supporting data-driven decision making

Exposure to a modern cloud, analytics and data ecosystem

Competitive hourly rate and the chance to influence the future direction of a large-scale data platform

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