The Director, Legal Data Strategy & Analytics will develop and deliver a comprehensive and proactive Data Analytics and Reporting strategy to enable a data-driven culture in the Legal & Co-Sec function. This role will also embed a thriving data culture and increased data maturity across the wider function, define and maintain a data assurance programme, and play an individual contributor role for data engineering, data solutions, and internal consulting on LEGAL & CO-SEC technologies.
Requirements
- Strong experience in data engineering with technical expertise in data management (including end-to-end data lifecycle, data models, data mapping, data mining, etc).
- Experience of formulating operational strategy including KPIs (key performance indicators) and reporting on these.
- Proven experience to translate data and information into actionable insights tailored for stakeholder interests.
- Hands-on experience with database & data lake design & technologies (Hadoop eco-system, SQL, Dataiku, Tableau, etc.).
- Hands-on experience of programming languages – Python, SQL is a must.
- Knowledge of AI/ML, Gen-AI techniques and tools is a must.
- Strong understanding of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning.
- Experience in the principles and execution of data architecture in a complex client environment involving hybrid deployment of systems both on-premises and in the cloud.
- Substantial experience in data management or another relevant field.
- Substantial and proven people management experience.
- Strong executive communication skills and confidence in presenting, able to discuss with technical and non-technical audiences to foster discussion with senior stakeholders.
- Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence, and resilience. Ability to handle sensitive matters at all levels of the organisation with discretion and confidentiality.
- Able to perform effectively under pressure with good personal organisation, time management and prioritisation skills.
- Proven experience in setting up and running data assurance programmes.
- Working knowledge of information security and information privacy best practices.
- Data engineering certification on big data & Hadoop ecosystem is desirable.
- Knowledge of service desk principles or certification (e.g. ITIL) is desirable.
Benefits
- Core bank funding for retirement savings
- Medical and life insurance
- Flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
- Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days),
- Minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
- Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
- Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
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