Director of Data Systems and Data Platform Are you a skilled leader with a desire to lead a team solving highly complex business problems? Do you enjoy leading cross functional teams in different Countries? About the Business At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium at the link below. https://www.cirium.com About the Role As Director of Engineering, Data Systems, you will be responsible and accountable for Cirium’s ability to ingest, process and store the data that drives both internal and external products and services. Utilizing your management experience, you will lead engineering teams in Southampton, Sutton, and Chennai, with internal and external customers across the globe. This is a tactical and strategic role, reporting to the VP of Technology and sitting on Cirium’s Tech Leadership Team (TLT), that is pivotal to our ability to operate as an efficient and effective Tech organization. Responsibilities: + Providing strategic direction for multiple teams of Data Engineers in the UK and India responsible for ingesting, processing, and storing data that drives over $100M of revenue. + Managing and develop the skills of the managers on the Data Engineering teams. Actively coach and drive the organization towards a high-performance culture. + Identifying opportunities for improvement and standardization of our pipelines and processes and work with Business and Tech stakeholders to deliver initiatives with tangible value. + Tracking and reporting on the progress of projects and initiatives to senior leadership using a data-driven approach. + Understanding in-depth the cost profile and key cost drivers of the Data Systems org and actively seek opportunities to introduce cost efficiencies. + Working within the Tech Leadership Team (TLT) to deliver cross-functional programs of work designed to consolidate and standardize ways of working, as well as improving our operational efficacy. Requirements: + Experience in a technical role on an Engineering team and understand the workload, challenges, and best practices when it comes to data engineering. You can speak knowledgeably and with authority to both technical and non-technical audiences about Data Engineering concepts. + Experience of managing Engineering teams and at least 2 years managing Managers. You know how to coach and mentor engineers in a global workforce across all experience levels and have a strong track record of building and leading high performing teams. You understand how to partner with Business and Tech stakeholders to gain support for complex, technical programs of work. + Experience in delivering complex change programs centered on continuous improvement and tech debt remediation. You have a bias for action and know how to balance BAU work with Project work to ensure that your teams and your estate consistently improves. + Experience with Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, and everything in-between and know which methodology is right for each use-case. You are an enthusiastic evangelist of Agile methodology and have experience coaching teams towards adoption and improvement of Agile processes. + Have excellent verbal and written communication to convey vision, milestones, and progress to diverse, global teams across all levels of the organization. + Have a passion for learning about different approaches to solving problems and you know how to apply your learning to real-world situations. Learn more about the LexisNexis Risk team and how we work here (https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RiskSolutions/page/21c296c982531000b79663f3194b0000) At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. 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