Head of Analytics Platforms

Job Title: Head of Analytics Platforms

Location: Swindon

Salary: Competitive

Role Overview

We are supporting a high-profile organisation in the search for a Head of Analytics to lead a major data and analytics transformation. This is a unique opportunity to drive the move from legacy systems to a modern cloud-based analytics ecosystem, leveraging tools such as Snowflake and Power BI.

This senior strategic role requires an influential, delivery-focused leader who can define how analytics operates across the organisation, ensuring maximum value is derived from data. The successful candidate will shape analytics strategy, lead business-facing insight functions, and manage offshore engineering teams, fostering a data-driven culture to support decision-making at all levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the organisation-wide analytics strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and broader technology initiatives.
• Lead the transition from legacy platforms to a modern, cloud-native data ecosystem.
• Establish and implement the operating model for analytics, covering governance, prioritisation, delivery processes, and ways of working.
• Drive the creation of high-quality dashboards, reports, and advanced analytics products that deliver measurable business value.
• Collaborate with business leaders to understand priorities and translate them into actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to enhance performance, customer understanding, operational efficiency, and commercial outcomes through data.
• Serve as a senior advocate for analytics, building strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure work aligns with strategic objectives.
• Manage offshore engineering teams to deliver scalable, efficient, and high-quality data pipelines and models.
• Define requirements, priorities, and standards for analytics engineering, data quality, and data governance.
• Oversee the analytics delivery roadmap, ensuring timely implementation during and after platform transformation.
• Develop analytics capability across the organisation, raising data literacy and promoting best practices.

Knowledge, Qualifications, and Skills

• Proven experience leading analytics or data insight functions within a transforming organisation.
• Strong strategic mindset with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and set company-wide direction.
• Deep understanding of modern data platforms and cloud architectures, particularly Snowflake.
• Hands-on experience with reporting and visualisation tools, especially Power BI.
• Experience managing offshore engineering or development teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into analytical solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Experience in delivering large-scale data platform migrations or cloud transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and enterprise data management.