Key Responsibilities
Data Strategy & Architecture
- Define and own the Group's target data architecture on Microsoft Fabric (lakehouse / medallion patterns, data pipelines, semantic models), while keeping the design open to other platforms and technologies where they genuinely serve the Group better.
- Personally build and maintain core Fabric artefacts - pipelines, lakehouse structures, semantic models, reports - in addition to specifying them for vendors and future team members; today there is no delivery team to delegate to.
- Lead the migration path away from legacy, on-premise, single-vendor data setups towards a scalable, governed, cloud-native architecture.
- Act as the data voice on the Group's Architecture Review Board, ensuring every AI and data initiative across the Group aligns to a single architectural direction rather than fragmenting into local solutions.
Data Governance & Compliance
- Stand up the Group's first formal data governance framework: data catalog, data quality rules, ownership and stewardship model (RACI), naming conventions,
and change/version control for data assets.
- Own the Group Master Data programme (chart of accounts, cost centres, customers, products) that today blocks reliable cross-entity reporting.
- Ensure data practices meet GDPR and local data-protection requirements across all jurisdictions the Group operates in, working closely with local IT and legal/DPO functions.
Helix Platform Leadership
- Take executive ownership of Helix, the Group's Fabric-based data platform programme, from its current early-stage footing through to a mature, governed, multi-domain reporting and analytics platform.
- Own the programme roadmap, budget and prioritisation, balancing the Finance function's near‑term reporting needs against the longer‑term architectural foundation the Group needs.
- Define and enforce a group‑first principle: local or business‑unit data initiatives may pilot new ideas, but the platform architecture is decided and own
📌 Group Data Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Ardmac
📍 Madrid