Data Group Manager

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a global healthcare company.

Responsibilities

• Advise and negotiate with your internal customers to know their priorities, manage their expectations, and ensure the value realization of our deliverables. Manage cross-departmental governance and processes around our data operations, including necessary Organizational Change Management.
• Be passionate about the data space and follow the latest trends in data engineering practice, technology and use cases such as Business Intelligence and AI.
• Be a strong communicator and negotiator, capable of managing expectations and fostering trust among many demanding stakeholders with competing priorities. 
• Be a proactive leader and opinionated not only when it comes to technical best practices and ways-of-working, but also take a strong interest in the business application of data. For every dataset in your scope, you naturally seek to know the whole “value chain”, including how it is generated, how it is transformed and combined, how it affects downstream systems, the use-cases it enables, and ultimately the business value it creates. 
• Manage to keep track of the big picture, even while “firefighting”, and you have a keen eye for avoiding technical debt and complexity-creep, striving for minimalistic, general, robust solutions over use-case specific, ad-hoc implementations whenever possible.

Requirements

• Must have a minimum bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience as a Data and/or Analytics Professional (Engineer, Architect, Scientist, Manager, Consultant, etc.)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Agile and DevOps (Experience as Product Owner is highly preferred), following the latest data trends, and having experience in implementing modern data DevOps Best practices to ensure data democratization and self service of our platforms among our business stakeholders.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with People Management (Preferably including implementation and change management of modern Agile/DevOps best practice)
• Fluent in Japanese and English is essential.

Salary

10 - 15 million yen

Location

Tokyo