Data Manager

Data Manager

Atlas Copco

Antwerp, Belgium

Your role

In this role you and your team will work together with important partners to accomplish data-driven projects that bring business value. You will build and maintain good relationships with divisional management and business and IT stakeholders worldwide.

You will guide and coach 3 teams (28 FTE in total and growing – 4 direct reports), consisting of the Data Platform Architects, a PowerBI competence center and a Data Project office. You manage several external suppliers that help your organization with both delivery as with the long-term roadmap.

You will report into the Vice-President IS/IT and you are part of the PT-IT management team.

Your main mission:

• You will be a single point of contact towards business and IT stakeholders;
• You will manage the data services roadmap and priorities to cater for the current and future needs on data availability and usage;
• You will prepare budgets and stay in control of all data services related costs;
• You will manage the implementation of quality assurance processes on the offered data services;
• You will lead us towards a service organization that covers the globe. (building teams in NASA and APAC);
• You will link with other data organizations within the Atlas Copco group to look for cooperation.

You will manage the following teams, (each team has a team lead), with the following scope:

• Platform and architecture
  • Develop the platform architecture to become future-proof (volume/performance);
  • Detect automation opportunities and implement accordingly;
  • Translate into operational ‘services’;
  • Set up ‘data operations’: ensuring that all incidents are (pro)actively recorded and structurally resolved;
  • Availability of data sources;
  • Report availability.
• PowerBI Competence Center
  • Intake and delivery of PowerBI reporting;
  • Manage existing reports;
  • Manage consultants and/or suppliers to lead a qualitative delivery with respect to the set deadlines.
• Data Project Office
  • Intake and delivery of complex data processes/platform migrations;
  • Ongoing communication and project governance and delivery.

To succeed, you need

Even if you don’t meet all the points, but are ready for a challenge, click on “Apply” anyway. We love your spirit!

• You have 5+ years of management experience in a large enterprise environment;
• You have a university master’s degree in computer science, commercial engineering or you can rely on relevant job experience;
• You have experience with data technologies & methodologies for data exposure, storage and transformation in the context of data science, business analytics and business intelligence;
• You are willing to travel up to 20% of your time;
• You are fluent in English, as this is our internal language.

Important areas of expertise are:

• Platform/IT architecture knowledge in the Microsoft eco-system;
• Service-driven, customer-centric attitude;
• Project management and change management skills;
• Translate complex technical concepts into easy-to-understand principles for a non-IT audience.

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