Head of Data

Head of Data

Location: Birmingham (Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite)Salary: Up to £110,000 + benefits

Overview

I'm supporting one of my clients in the search for a Head of Data to lead and mature their end-to-end data function. This is a pivotal hire for a business investing heavily in its data strategy, technology, and people.

The successful candidate will be responsible for setting the data vision, providing technical leadership across Microsoft Fabric and Azure, and managing a multi-disciplinary team consisting of data engineers, a data architect, data scientists, and data analysts.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives on setting direction while still staying close to delivery, architecture, and technical decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the client's data strategy, vision, and roadmap.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Fabric, Azure, and modern data platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a multi-skilled data team (engineers, architect, scientists, analysts).
• Oversee the design and implementation of scalable data solutions across ingestion, modelling, governance, and analytics.
• Embed best practice in engineering, architecture, DevOps, performance, and data governance.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders to ensure data underpins strategic decision-making.
• Promote a data-driven culture and champion data accessibility, literacy, and quality.
• Own platform direction including architectural frameworks, cost management, and operational excellence.

• Strong engineering background in Python, SQL, Spark.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale cloud data platforms and modern data architectures.

Leadership

• Proven experience leading a multi-disciplinary data team.
• Ability to set strategic direction while staying technically engaged.
• Strong stakeholder and senior-level communication capability.
• Experience developing frameworks for data governance, quality, security, and lineage.

Preferred Background

• Experience working in a data-mature or cloud-native environment.
• Familiarity with analytics, machine learning pipelines, and BI/visualisation tooling.
• Experience with self-service analytics and semantic modelling.

What's on Offer

• Salary up to £110,000
• Hybrid working model: 2 days per week in Birmingham
• High autonomy and the opportunity to shape an organisation-wide data function
• A modern tech stack (Fabric + Azure) with strong investment and executive support
• Discretionary bonus
• And much more.