Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation (NSHD) is one of the leading companies in the industrial and medical gases business. We have a diversified involvement in broad industries such as healthcare, food, manufacturing, metallurgy, chemical products, electronics and energy. The Data & Ai Platform Owner will be based in Madrid, in European Headquarters, and will be part of NSHD IT General team, reporting to Global Data & AI Director. We are looking for a seasoned professional, to own the global Data & AI platform as a secure, scalable, reliable, governed and cost-effective product/service spanning data, analytics, ML, Generative AI and agents. The Data & AI Platform owner will lead strategy, delivery, operations, adoption and lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities
* Strategy & roadmap
- Own target architecture, roadmap and backlog; balance demand, foundations, innovation, security and governance against value, maturity, interoperability and strategic fit.
* Federated delivery
- With the Director, define global/regional/partner ownership, service boundaries, decision rights, onboarding and deployment governance. Consolidate demand; build once for regional configuration and reuse; govern exceptions and escalations.
* Architecture & engineering
- Align modular architecture with Cloud, Security, Data/AI and enterprise standards. Govern shared code, infrastructure, configurations, policies and reusable templates; standardize IaC, CI/CD, provisioning and guardrails for governed self-service.
* Data & AI lifecycle
- Enable ingestion-to-consumption, orchestration and integration; standardize experimentation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, human oversight and retirement.
* Security & governance




- Work closely with Cybersecurity to ensure the platform implements all mandated security measures; implement Azure governance policies defined by the Cloud Infrastructure team.
* Service & resilience
- Own demand-to-operation, support and improvement. Define catalogue, SLAs/SLOs, KPIs and escalation; manage incidents, changes, releases, upgrades, dependencies, technical debt and retirement. Ensure capacity, performance, end-to-end observability, backups and tested recovery procedures.
* Finance & vendors
- Support budgets, forecasts, cloud/licensing optimization. Manage partner performance, deliverables, knowledge transfer, roadmaps, dependencies and support/integration commitments
* Adoption & outcomes
- Engage regional IT teams and business driving onboarding, documentation, accelerators and practitioner communities. Improve user/developer experience through feedback Background
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or related field.
* At least 7 years in enterprise data/analytics development or project leadership, including platform strategy, delivery, operations, adoption and lifecycle ownership.
* At least 5 years with Databricks: enterprise workspaces, Unity Catalog, automation and Asset Bundles; cloud Data & AI architecture, preferably Azure.
* Full professional English proficiency required. Required Skills
* International/multicultural experience would be essential; distributed team/partner leadership, platform deployments, ownership, decision rights, onboarding,



reuse and measurable roadmap delivery.
* DevSecOps, CI/CD, IaC, provisioning and releases; cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory/data governance, audits and remediation.
* Service management, SLAs/SLOs, incidents, observability, capacity, resilience/recovery, technical debt and technology lifecycle.
* Product/service mindset, strategic roadmaps, problem-solving and attention to detail; balance value, risk, cost, speed and sustainability with operational discipline and improvement.
* Global-regional collaboration, influence without authority, constructive challenge, conflict resolution and executive/technical communication. Preferred Skills
* Preferred experience in industrial gases, manufacturing, supply-chain or asset-intensive sectors; operational/safety-critical AI; regional platforms across Europe, Japan, Australia, Asia-Pacific or comparable environments.
* MLOps/LLMOps, GenAI/agents, evaluation, observability and governance; Fabric, Microsoft AI, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry and Databricks AI would be valuable.
* Relevant cloud, architecture, security, IT service management, or data-management certifications would be valuable. Others Availability to travel abroad 15% of the time (worldwide). At Nippon Sanso, we're a reliable partner for key industries, combining global expertise with a local touch to make a real difference. Guided by our commitment to sustainability, we drive innovation through cutting-edge technology and a strong R&D; network. Here, you'll have the autonomy to own your career, with the chance to work on projects that impact communities and shape a carbon-neutral future. Discover a place where you'll play a key role in solutions that power major industries and make a difference in every

📌 Data & AI Platform Owner (Comunidad de Madrid)
🏢 Nippon Sanso Europe
📍 Comunidad de Madrid