IT (Area) Lead in Amsterdam

IT (Area) Lead
The Data squad the is part of the Area WoW, Processes & Data of the Architecture, Strategy & Innovation organization within Global TECH. The purpose is to digitize the reporting and analytics to improve the TECH leadership decision making, whilst adhering to regulatory requirements regarding data; and to increase the customer value by adding new metrics and by the ingestion of metrics in the TECH Data lake, so we can increase the organization drumbeat by transparent, factual and frequent insights.

Your function –  IT (Area) Lead of Data Servicing
You will be involved with the development of the journey for TECH on becoming more data-driven, by establishing and running the Data lake for TECH, by putting in place the right governance according to the policies of CDMO, chairing the TECH Data Council representing MT TECH for the Data Lake, defining and executing the roadmap for ingestion of the Systems of Record of TECH (approved by the Data Council), and providing the relevant dashboards for Leadership.  The complexity is in the many stakeholders you will have to manage, and the discovery of the journey itself (as we are the first ones doing the E2E journey).  

You will be in contact with a wide variety of interested parties, products and thought leaders in their respective domains. As such, you will be working with many colleagues from different disciplines, geographies and backgrounds. As the motto of the team says “Along the way you will find obstacles to overcome and our duty is to do this successfully”.

Skills required:
• Creation and prioritization of backlogs (divided into predictable epics)
• Setting out the vision for the squad, and guard the priorities
• Alignment with key senior stakeholders and taking into account the dependencies in the process chain
• Experience with Agile /Scrum

• experience in Data warehousing, Data processing (ETL), SQL and Business Intelligence.
• Technology/Market acumen, so that you can propose new technologies best practices to your teams deliverables.
• Solid experience and knowledge in metadata management, data governance and enterprise data strategies.
• Proven records in managing, delivering and coordinating enterprise level projects.
• Knowledge or experience of IT risk and DevOps in financial or banking industries
• Feeling comfortable working in an international team

Do you recognize yourself in the following;
• You own (and you are responsible) for your product and as a consequence that your
implemented software is up-and-running as expected.
• You are the key person to talk to for stakeholders within the IT as well as the
Business domain.
• You are an independent self-starter
• You get things done                                                                                                                        • You are an excellent stakeholder manager, both on the level op the shopfloor, with architects as on Senior management level                                                                                     • You are able to have a good oversight of the situation and options to choose from,
also during stressful situations
• You are able to set out a vision, and act upon it in delivery
• You are a very good communicator, presenter and pitcher of ideas of the squad
• You are a real team player
• You are able to motivate others

What we offer:
• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience;
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities to realize your ambitions;
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues who strive for the very best;
• Progressive way of working according to the Agile method
• A reimbursement for travel expenses;
• Pension scheme;
• 13th month salary;
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary;
• 8% Holiday payment;