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Head of Data Platform

3 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom St. James's Place Full time

St. James's Place (SJP) works inpartnership to plan, grow and protect our clients' financial futures. Wedeliver personalised, face-to-face financial advice to our clients, who trustus to manage their money to reach their goals. We provide this service via thePartnership, a network of qualified, expert advisors. We put financialwellbeing and responsible business choices at the heart of everything we do. Webelieve in the value of difference and know that diverse teams can help usproblem solve and innovate for clients.

We look for people to join SJP to make animpact and to contribute to our culture which is based around long termrelationships, doing the right thing, and being the best version of ourselves.

Location: Cirencester Office

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

We are looking for a strategic and experienced Head of Data Platform to join the Central Data Office(CDO) in the Group Data Management Division. This role is a pivotal part of the CDO team setting the Vision for the Data Platform in line with SJP's Data Strategy and working to evolve it over time.

Data is one of SJP's most important assets. As with most assets, data is only truly useful if it's trusted and quick and easy to access, which means building and operating a well-managed, well governed, and scalable data platform is critical to SJP's ongoing success and evolution.

If you are a hardworking senior data professional with a keen interest in data platforms, we would love you hear from you

What you'll be doing?

  • Designing a set of core data capabilities and business services that support SJPs Hub & Spoke Self Service data strategy.
  • Understanding SJP's data needs across the whole business and ensuring the Data Platform can provide the right data to the right applications and individuals at the right time
  • Ensuring the Data Platform meets agreed service levels by establishing a well documented and highly effective Data Platform Operating Model
  • Ensuring the Data Platform delivers data to an agreed Data Quality Standard
  • Governing with an appropriate level of oversight to ensure that the platform delivers what it needs to in a way that is safe and secure.
  • Communicating data platform capabilities to stakeholders and explaining how the data platform can be used to solve business problems.

Who are we looking for?

  • Strong maturity and knowledge of end-to-end data lifecycle management including the challenges of using data to facilitate analytics.
  • Deep understanding of the how Data Teams deliver Data Products using Software Development Lifecycle and Agile and Waterfall methodologies
  • A data enthusiast, passionate about business insight and is skilled at using narration and storytelling to drive decisions at all business levels including executive and board.
  • A highly proficient stakeholder and relationship manager, capable of fostering mutually beneficial relationships across multiple business areas
  • The ability to deal and overcome ambiguity, thriving on autonomy, and working to challenging timescales to realise tangible outcomes.
  • Proven leader, who mentors, leads by example, steers, encourages and provides feedback to develop team and others around them

What's in it for you?

  • PrivateMedical paid for by Company.
  • Meaningfulprotection benefits with real value, such as 10X life cover, PHI, andcritical illness.*
  • Non-ContributoryPension – 10% (increasing with length of service up to 15%) with furtherpension matching.
  • Parentalleave – 6 months full pay
  • 28 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays (based on full-time equivalent) with the option to buy up to an additional 5 days holiday

*Not applicable to Fixed-Term Contracts (standard uplift applies in lieu of the protection benefits)

Flexible Working
We know that everyone works best indifferent ways, at different times and in different environments. We haveintroduced a hybrid working policy to provide greater flexibility for part-timework, job-sharing, remote working, and flexibility on hours. Our people areencouraged to work in a flexible way that suits their lifestyle, so please askthe question and start a conversation

Research tells us that applicants(especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applyingfor a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extendedcareer-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and candemonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whetheryou tick every box.

Reasonable Adjustments
We're anequal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process isaccessible and inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) atany stage please let us know by emailing us at

What's next?

Our team will be in touch. As a businessregulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with theconduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to aninterview with SJP.

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