Establish, manage, and evolve the company's Data, AI and Automation processes, support senior management in developing and achieving the organisations strategic plan as well as the development and delivery of the data, AI and Automation capabilities.
Oversee the development and use of data, AI and Automation systems, driving the adoption of a centralised standard of these solutions across Smiths Group and its divisions, actively promoting CoDe. capabilities.
Solutioning innovative ways to organise, AI and Automation processes through the creation and validation of algorithms, neural networks, and other machine learning techniques.
Provide leadership on the implementation of security & authorisations best practice for accessing AI and Automation solutions.
Work proactively with internal and key business partners that contribute to the delivery of analytic, AI models through projects and BAU, exploring new analytics and dashboard tools and where appropriate advice on new solutions that can improve the effectiveness of organisation.
Help to solution, implement and maintain operating models that optimise onshore and offshore resourcing to create the maximum value for Smiths Group
Manage and distribute workloads to the D&A team members, balancing the key strengths of the D&A team along with career aspirations, providing direction and day-to-day oversight, striving to deliver outstanding results.
Take leading role in the growth of Team and support the development of D&A and Divisional team members through coaching and mentoring Data
Responsibilities:
Develop Data, AI and automation solutions.
Test, deploy, and maintain intelligent systems.
Collaborate with data scientists and other engineers to integrate AI into broader system architecture.
Stay current with AI trends and suggest improvements to existing systems and workflows.
Create a Roadmap that delivers the vision and embeds capabilities to ensure master/reference data, data quality management, data cataloguing, data governance, traceability are established and governed as a foundational pillar, ensuring the use of trusted high-quality data across BIS and all divisions.
Developing and managing data platform; data management; and tooling and access controls for all business and technical users
Provide business focused data-related guidance and thought leadership across data architecture, data governance and data integration, and the associated technologies
Ensure all D&A deliveries are performance assessed and can execute within response times within business acceptable criteria.
Lead on the development and maintenance of dashboards, forms, and other tools to facilitate the interaction with data management systems for non-technical users
Implement and regularly review existing data management policies to make sure that they are up to date and effective, revising and improving as necessary
Collaborate across the Smiths divisions to discuss any data problems, new or additional requirements and support project specification development.
Support the creation of Data Analytic Models and Data Visualisations (eg PowerBI) within the Azure platform.
Own and govern the code promotion process for Analytic Models and Visualisation code sets into the QA and production environments.
Organise, store and analyse data as efficiently as possible, while always upholding agreed-upon security standards
Manage PowerBI Licences, Gateways and Microsoft visual studio installed in Smiths.
Develop documentation and training material for applications.
Evaluate, design, implement and support new requirements or database changes using associated business requirements and design documents.
Design and develop new analytics / models using the new data sets to expedite data analysis and reporting.
Provide technical oversight for integrating new technology or new initiatives into existing data standards and structures.
Monitor and analyse information and data systems and evaluate their performance to discover ways of enhancing them (new technologies, upgrades etc.)
Ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and security of all developed solutions.
Establish rules and procedures for data sharing with upper management, external stakeholders etc.
Create and enforce policies for effective data management.
Support others in the daily use of data systems and ensure adherence to legal and company standards.
Provide regular progress reports to your manager on BAU activities and progress against project deliverables.
Regularly provide accurate availability/capacity reports for the D&A team to assist with project planning and future recruitment needs.
Act as a mentor to new super users within the Divisions using PowerBI technology.
Lead the weekly team meeting, owning the agenda and encouraging engagement from the D&A team