Head of Global Data & Analytics Platform

Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Head of Global Data & Analytics Platform Head of Global Data & Analytics Platform Olympus Medical Products Portugal (OMPP) | Corporate

Type of employment: Permanent employment

Function: IT

Location: Full Remote (allocated to Coimbra office)

Olympus Medical Products Portugal is a subsidiary of the Olympus Group. At Olympus, we are committed to Our Purpose of making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling. As a global medical technology company, we partner with healthcare professionals to provide best-in-class solutions and services for early detection, diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment, aiming to improve patient outcomes by elevating the standard of care in targeted disease states.

The Global Insights & Analytics team at Olympus Corporation helps define and lead the transformation towards becoming a global, data-driven MedTech company with the help of data and modern data technologies (e.g., Machine Learning, Deep Learning). To us, Data and Advanced Analytics is an important lever to reach our business targets, now and in the future; It helps differentiate ourselves from our competition and ensure sustainable revenue growth at optimal margins.

We are now seeking for a seasoned “Head of Data & Analytics Platform” , who will play a pivotal role in driving impactful innovation through modern data technologies”, reporting to the Global Head of Insight & Analytics (a direct report to the Global CIO at Olympus). He/she will lead a team of Data Engineers, Cloud Architects, DevOps and MLOps experts, and is responsible for developing, running and continuously refining an easy-to-use, modern and lean/cost-effective cloud environment for Olympus world-wide. The Data & Analytics platform is a key enabler to make the transformation towards data-driven really happening and to ensure sustainable change and truly global, cross-functional collaboration within the company.

Your responsibilities Responsible for developing, running and continuously refining an easy-to-use, modern and lean/cost-effective cloud engineering for Olympus world-wide, together with a team of data and solution architects and MLOps experts

Help market and communicate the value proposition of the cloud environment to both key business and technical users. Drive adoption and broaden usage of modern data technologies and cloud environments within Olympus.

Understand key priorities of the business in terms of smart automation and advanced analytics scope- Ability to translate these needs into requirements for the cloud platform and implement these in an efficient, compliant, scalable and cost-effective manner.

Define and implement required standards within Olympus in collaboration with key stakeholders such Data privacy, Cyber Security and Compliance to ensure compliant data activities end-to-end.

Master in relevant field (e.g., computer science, electrical engineering)

At least 6-8 years of relevant working experience, ideally in pharma/healthcare/med-tech environment

Team management experience in the area of data, cloud and solutions architecture.

Strong external vendor management skills, given our partly outsourced structures.

Strong architectural skills to enable modern, lean scalable cloud structures

Experience in working with and leading external teams to help implement solutions

Proven ability to work across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, extracting information and identifying linkages across disparate data sets

Strong experience in multiple database technologies such as: Distributed Processing (Spark, Hadoop, EMR) Traditional RDBMS (MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) MPP (AWS Redshift, Teradata) NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J, Titan)

Strong understanding of Information Security principles to ensure compliant handling and management of data

Experience in infrastructure as code using e.g., CloudFormation or similar (Terraform).

Strong experience and interest in Cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and all its services and ecosystem

Strong experience in traditional data warehousing / ETL tools.

Proficiency in architecting, building and maintaining cost-efficient and scalable cloud environments

Ability to understand business and create cloud-bases solutions to fill those objectives

Result-driven, be an analytical and creative thinker

Ability to work with cross-functional teams and bring business and data science closer together - consultancy experience a plus

Fluency in English a must, additional languages a plus

Global position

Work in a multicultural and diverse environment

Referral commission

Medical Health Insurance

Initial and continuous training

24 vacation days off

Day off on your birthday

Christmas Eve off

About Olympus Corporate The Corporate Division is responsible for centralized functions that include Finance and Controlling, HR, IT, Quality Management and Supply Chain Management. It provides essential services and support to all business divisions. Moreover, it is an important project initiator and leader within the international network. About Olympus Corporate The Corporate Division is responsible for centralized functions that include Finance and Controlling, HR, IT, Quality Management and Supply Chain Management. It provides essential services and support to all business divisions. Moreover, it is an important project initiator and leader within the international network.

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