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Director - Data Platform Engineering
Simple Machines
London, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
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We are looking for a senior data leader to join Simple Machines in London as part of our Global Data Practice leadership team.
This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role focused on helping shape the future direction of our data platform capability across the UK and Europe. The individual will play a key role in defining our propositions, strengthening our technical capability, and helping clients modernise their data ecosystems for an AI-native future.
The role requires someone equally comfortable operating at executive, architectural, commercial, and delivery levels. We are looking for a leader who understands where enterprise data platforms are heading over the next five years, not where they were five years ago.
Key Responsibilities
- - Part of the Global Data Practice leadership team
- - Helping define and evolve Simple Machines’ data platform propositions, technical direction, and strategic positioning
- - Advising enterprise clients on modern data platform strategy, architecture, operating models, and AI readiness
- - Supporting organisations as they evolve from traditional centralised data platforms toward AI-native, real-time, and data product-oriented operating models
- - Working closely with Engagement Managers and senior leadership across major strategic initiatives
- - Leading architecture and technical direction for complex enterprise data platform and transformation programs
- - Acting as a senior technical counterpart across strategic client engagements and partner relationships
- - Pre-sales, proposal development, technical solution shaping, and executive stakeholder engagement
- - Building trusted relationships with strategic technology partners and staying current with emerging platform capabilities and market direction
- - Supporting recruitment, mentoring, capability uplift, and practice development across the broader engineering organisation
- - Leading major client initiatives across data engineering, platform modernisation, AI enablement, and operational data systems
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