Data Platform Manager

• Opportunity to join a leading company in the data analytics sector.
• Participation in challenging and high-impact projects.
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment.

We are looking to incorporate into our team a Data Platform Manager with a solid track record and strategic vision to lead the development and management of our data infrastructures.

The Data Platform Manager will be the fundamental pillar in the definition, implementation, and operation of our cutting-edge data platforms. Their work will be crucial to guarantee the availability, scalability, security, and efficiency of all the components that make up our data ecosystem, ensuring that these platforms support the current and future needs of the business.

• Architecture and Strategy: Define the target architecture of the data platforms, establishing a clear roadmap and ensuring high availability. This includes the architecture for ingestion, processing, and data governance tools.
• Continuity and Resilience: Ensure service continuity, platform resilience, and disaster recovery (DRP) capabilities. Closely supervise capacity, performance, KPIs, and SLAs, and perform rigorous post-change monitoring to guarantee stability.
• Process Optimization: Optimize critical batch processes, analyzing and improving execution windows, dependencies, processing times, and resource allocation, identifying and resolving bottlenecks, and addressing recurring incidents to maximize efficiency.
• Incident and Change Management: Effectively coordinate the management of incidents, problems, updates, and deployments on the data platforms. This involves impact assessment, planning and executing exhaustive testing, defining rollback plans, and providing clear and timely communication to all stakeholders.
• Project and Vendor Management: Manage the demand for new developments and evolutions, lead technological projects related to data platforms, administer the assigned budget, coordinate external vendors, and supervise work teams until the correct production deployment of solutions.
• Inventory and Documentation: Keep the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), asset inventory, technical and operational documentation, as well as license management and technological obsolescence identification, up to date. The active optimization of operating costs will be sought.
• Security and Compliance: Integrate and reinforce security policies across all layers of the data platforms. This encompasses system hardening, vulnerability management, privileged identity and access management (PAM), audit configuration, and ensuring regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR).
• Automation and Continuous Improvement: Drive the adoption of automation practices in platform management, enhance system observability, and promote a culture of continuous service improvement to raise quality and operational efficiency.
• Team Coordination: Experience in the coordination of vendors and operations/development teams. Leadership in data projects, capacity management, and ensuring operational continuity.