Head of Data Management

As the **Head of IT Data Management & Operational Excellence (f/m/d)**, you are instrumental in advancing Siemens into a unified, data-driven company.
Your duties will encompass a wide range of activities, including typical project management tasks such as budgeting and planning, as well as overarching steering activities. You will focus on implementing strategic initiatives that align these programs with our long-term mission and strategy.To ensure success, you will work closely with key stakeholders, engaging in constant exchange and collaboration. Creating a collaborative and productive working environment across virtual organizations will be a key priority as you strive to support and empower your colleagues and teams. Furthermore, you will play a crucial role in driving change management processes, working in tandem with core activities within the organization. Your expertise and leadership will be instrumental in enabling Siemens to effectively leverage data technologies and advance our data-driven capabilities.**Your problem-solving mindset creates real business value. This is your role.**
- Join us in this exciting role where your problem-solving mindset will create tangible business value. As the Head of Data Management & Operational Excellence, you will play a pivotal role in enabling our vision of creating a seamlessly connected IT ecosystem through the development of scalable integration platforms, the management of real-time data streaming, batch processes, and API integrations across Siemens.
- Your primary responsibility will be to build and lead a high-performing team of integration architects and engineers who will take end-to-end ownership of their platforms and services. You will support the team in identifying priorities, addressing project issues, and providing individual mentorship and personal development opportunities.
- In addition, you will foster an agile mindset and way of working, encouraging the adoption of agile methods to drive efficiency and effectiveness. You will actively drive critical project-related activities, such as budgeting, planning, risk mitigation, and reporting, ensuring successful management of time, effort, and quality.
- Building strong relationships with our internal clients and stakeholders will be key, as you become a trusted advisor for their most critical integration workloads, supporting Siemens' transformation into a unified ONE tech company. You will take ownership of key projects and collaborate closely with stakeholders from the business to lead these initiatives to success.
- Staying up to date with emerging technologies in data integration and recommend suitable tools and platforms for adoption. Lead the implementation of such cutting-edge technologies enhancing data integration and accessibility.
- Leading the Data Governance Platform, including Collibra as the data catalog, and ensuring effective metadata management solutions/services across Siemens.
- Managing Data Product Sharing frameworks to scale up data product usage and instil a data-centric mindset organization-wide.
- Overseeing data products throughout the entire Data & AI ecosystem, addressing dependencies with data platforms, visualization tools, and integration platforms.
- Implementing semantic modeling for enhanced data comprehension and utilization.
- Ensuring governance aspects and security considerations align with Siemens’ protection and compliance standards.
- Driving operational excellence across the Siemens Data & AI Cloud, representing the data & AI ecosystem to improve operations, standardize practices across platforms, and provide outstanding service to all stakeholders.
- Evaluating and introducing state-of-the-art data management solutions, such as data quality tools and cloud-based data services, to complement the ecosystem.

**Use your skills to move the world forward.**
- **Education**:University Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
- ** Experience & Skills**- Over 3 years of experience in leading international teams
- Long years of experiences in the required fields with a focus on IT
- More than 2 years of experience in people management, either as a project lead or team lead
- Excellent communication and mediation skills
- Over 5 years of experience in program management within the field of data analytics and/or AI
- Proficiency in analyzing and modeling datasets to extract value
- Strong expertise in data governance, metadata management, and data quality management
- Experience working with data catalog tools like Collibra
- Experience working in a cloud environment, such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Ability to comprehend technical concepts and translate them into business terms
- Customer-centric mindset with strong communication abilities
- Familiarity with agile methodologies, such as SCRUM
- ** Languages**:Business fluency in written and spoken English

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