Deputy Manager – Data & Strategy (Analytics & Development)

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Responsibilities:

Leadership Responsibilities

1. People Management and Team Leadership

Lead, coach, and support teams across Analytics, Citizen Development, Azure, IoT, and .NET by ensuring clear goals, balanced workloads, strong collaboration, and continuous capability development.

2. Analytics technical leadership

Own and guide the technical implementation of Analytics solutions, including requirement analysis, KPI definition, data modelling, data extraction, transformation and loading, semantic layer design, dashboard/report development, performance optimization, testing, deployment readiness, and post-go-live support.

3. Delivery steering across digital solution teams

Coordinate delivery priorities, dependencies, risks, timelines, and stakeholder expectations across multiple technology areas while ensuring predictable execution and measurable business outcomes.

4. Stakeholder and business alignment

Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, global IT teams, project managers, product owners, and technical teams to translate business needs into feasible, scalable, and value-driven digital solutions.

5. Performance development and capability building

Provide structured feedback, mentoring, onboarding support, skill development plans, and career guidance to strengthen both technical and behavioural capabilities within the team.

Delivery and governance

Establish and enforce delivery governance across Analytics and digital solution teams, including quality reviews, documentation standards, solution validation, release readiness, risk tracking, and operational handover.

Ensure that Analytics implementations are business-focused, technically sound, scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data governance, and platform standards.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering (any discipline) with 12+ years of relevant experience.

• Proven experience in leading people and managing multidisciplinary technical teams across Analytics, Citizen Development, Azure, IoT, .NET, or related digital technology areas.

  Strong hands-on experience in Analytics solution implementation, including data analysis, data modelling, dashboard/report development, data integration concepts, KPI definition, testing, performance improvement, and stakeholder sign-off.

• Technical expertise should include strong working knowledge of tools and platforms such as Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW, SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics.
• The candidate should be capable of designing and reviewing analytics architecture covering data source identification, data pipelines, data cleansing, calculation logic, security/authorization concepts, data refresh strategy, report performance, user adoption, and operational support model.
• Preferred exposure includes dashboard UX design, self-service analytics enablement, citizen development governance, Power Platform integration, IoT data visualization, cloud analytics patterns, and basic understanding of .NET or Azure-based application data flows.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to manage priorities, resolve conflicts, influence global stakeholders, guide technical discussions, and build a high-performing team culture.

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