Data & Analytics Lead

Overview

As a Data & Analytics Lead at Linesight , you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Define and execute a data and analytics (D&A) strategy to maximize business value, collaborating with executive leadership and stakeholders
• Foster a data-driven mindset across the organization by developing D&A talent, improving data literacy, and driving transformation efforts
• Establish data governance policies to ensure data integrity, security, compliance, and ethical usage in decision-making and AI-driven processes
• Develop and manage an enterprise-wide data operating model, ensuring efficient delivery of data products and analytics solutions
• Implement and optimize data management frameworks, including data lakes, warehouses, and fabric to support scalable analytics capabilities
• Identify and address internal and external stakeholder needs, aligning D&A initiatives with business objectives for digital transformation
• Oversee the development, maintenance, and evolution of the organization's data and analytics architecture and platforms, ensuring alignment with business needs and future growth

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Business, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields
• Have progressive leadership experience leading cross-functional teams, multidisciplinary environments and enterprise wide data and analytics programs, operating and influencing effectively across the organization and within complex context
• Are proficient in cloud platforms, preferably within the Azure technology stack.
• Have expertise in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala, as well as SQL.
• Have a solid understanding of data governance frameworks
• Are passionate about knowledge sharing and mentoring, helping to upskill junior team members and foster a culture of continuous learning within the organization
• Have evidence of holistic data skills, such as engineering, analytics, data science and data architecture
• Have a practical portfolio demonstrating experience of hard skills within data analytics, machine learning and data architecture (e.g., working with complex ETL pipelines.)
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role within organizations undergoing digital transition.
• Understand key terminology, conventions and processes within the construction industry (highly desirable).
• Have strong consulting, stakeholder engagement, and business communication skills

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!Diversity, inclusion and accessibilityLinesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!