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KANTAR

Director, Enterprise Architecture Data and AI

London

FULL TIME

September 12, 2024

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

Overview

At Kantar, we’re passionate about helping clients grow great brands. We’re experts in advertising, marketing, communications, media, digital, and brand equity research, and we work with 90% of the world’s leading brands.

The Kantar Insights Enterprise Architecture function provides leadership on the Insights division’s technology strategy and the evolution of our enterprise IT architecture. The EA team are highly collaborative and work closely with the wider group function to ensure each division’s technology strategies are appropriately aligned. Working with a broad range of colleagues and stakeholders at all levels (from the C suite to the frontline), the EA team focuses on striking a pragmatic balance between supporting in-flight initiatives and steering longer-term investment. Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Architecture, the Enterprise Architect for Data & Analytics is accountable for Kantar Insights Data & Analytics technology strategy.

Key responsibilities

Ownership of the IT architecture elements of Data & Analytics & Gen AI strategy and acting as an internal consultant to the projects and initiatives involved across all our systems. Provision of high-level knowledge and expertise of how our systems and infrastructure fit together and a broader context of the external world of IT in general
Reviewing and shaping alignment of Data & Analytics & Gen AI technology to support multi-functional needs and ensuring technology roadmaps / investments for relevant platforms meet the broader business strategy
Serve as the ‘go-to’ Data expert within the Architecture team leading on topics such as databases, enterprise data platform (data lakes & data warehousing / BI) , AI & ML and data management (Data Modelling, Data integration, Data quality, Data Protection, Data Stewardship & Ownership).

Job accountabilities

Lead and own the data technology strategy and vision and overall roadmap to achieve the maturity across Kantar business domains
Working closely with Solution Architects and other technical leads to ensure data & analytics architecture elements of projects are included. Provide occasional Solution Architect skills on projects specifically relating to delivering new data & analytics capabilities.
Drive the architecture and roadmap for Generative AI enterprise technology platform within Kantar to support experimentation and production.
Work closely with Legal, Compliance and Data protection office to drive the Gen AI technology controls that are aligned with Responsible AI framework
Work with the Cloud Technology partner and other suppliers to land the capabilities leveraging the cloud native technology
Working with staff across Kantar to build and maintain valuable and productive working relationships and ensure that the needs of the business are met. Close collaboration with Data Engineering & Integration and Data Analytics & Science functions and communities will be critical
Close collaboration with the Group Information Security department will be critical.
Review, align and prioritise technology change initiatives so that work is not unnecessarily duplicated and is correctly sequenced against known dependencies.
Building and subsequently maintaining capability and technology roadmaps that define how Data Management, Engineering, Science, Analytics and Visualisation platforms, are kept up to date and deliver optimal value for the business
Drive the data management architecture to drive the maturity to land Data catalog, MDM/RDM and Enterprise Data modelling across Kantar
Support to shape the Data Steardship and ownership function within Kantar
Play key role in the execution of Enterprise Architecture’s Technical Design Assurance – focussing on the data aspects of technology change. Ensuring alignment to the published technical strategies, policies and standards.
Maintaining key enterprise architecture artefacts (e.g. current states, target states etc.) showing how we evolve the data & analytics architecture across our IT estate in place over time as the company progresses.

Capbilities and experience

Strong enterprise architecture skills, particularly in aligning strategic business requirements and the IT architectures & roadmaps needed to deliver against them
Expertise in data & integration architecture including topics such as data lakes, ‘data fabric’, data warehousing, batch data integration, events and data streaming, data management etc.
Knowledge on Gen AI LLM models, prompt engineering & RAG and related cloud tools to build a reusable architecture for experimentation
Knowledge on Gen AI Responsible AI framework and related technology controls
Expertise in governance and assurance for enterprise data (data models, resources, products etc.) and integration (e.g. interfaces, Events etc.)
Knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment within which Kantar operates
Background in the use of integration and big data technologies to create a ‘data fabric’ or ‘data platform’ for use in across the business domains helpful
Experience operating with different IT delivery approaches such as agile, waterfall, iterative etc.
An understanding of total cost ownership of IT assets and functions !
Have a good appreciation of solution architecture, software and solution delivery practices, IT infrastructure and application architecture.
Familiarity with patterns, practices and frameworks of Enterprise Architecture.
Good interpersonal skills, expert level stakeholder management, being able to influence change and finding consensus, making imperfect decisions.
Be confident in presenting high-level technical architecture and strategy to both and IT and business audience.
Be a business-focussed, creative, innovative pragmatic and positive teammate!

Desirable skills

Experience in the market research sector
Relevant experience of developing complex cases for strategic change

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion, and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well-being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

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