VP, Global Data Platforms

The Vice President, Global Data Platforms is a senior leader in Aristocrat's Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A) organization. They are accountable for defining and leading the global strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise data platforms. The role focuses on uniting and advancing data platforms across people, process, and technology to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-quality capabilities that power enterprise analytics, AI, and commercial data services. It ensures platforms produce trusted, well-structured, and consumable data that meets business and customer needs. The role drives the adoption of AI and automation to improve engineering efficiency, platform intelligence, and operational efficiency. Operating across a complex, global matrix environment, this leader influences outcomes across organizational boundaries. Join us in advancing scalable, high-impact data platforms that power analytics and AI across Aristocrat! What you’ll do Define and drive the global data platform strategy ensuring aligned, scalable, secure, and cost-effective platforms. Communicate strategy, progress, and outcomes to executive leadership. Foster consensus and guide investment decisions focusing on value, prioritization, and cost efficiency. Proactively engage and influence business and IT leaders to shape data and platform direction for new initiatives, driving modern, scalable approaches over legacy patterns. Guide platform and data decisions that enable self-service, data literacy, and improved productivity, in partnership with Architecture and Governance. Establish and implement the technical roadmap for data platform modernization, AI-ready data and data capabilities in alignment with enterprise architecture, including the use of AI to improve engineering efficiency. Ensure data platforms are AI-ready, providing high-quality, well-structured, and discoverable data to support advanced analytics and machine learning. Collaborate across data, technology, and business teams to provide platform capabilities and data solutions. Establish clear operating models, roles, and decision frameworks to enable consistent execution, including standardization across platforms, technologies, and regions. Ensure high availability, performance, security, cost efficiency, and reliability of data platforms in line with organizational and high-impact client-driven and regulatory SLAs. Drive engineering and operational excellence by establishing automated and AI-enabled practices that ensure data quality, reliability, and speed of delivery within data platforms. Lead and develop a global organization of platform, engineering, and operations leaders and engineers, fostering accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. What we're looking for 15+ years leading large-scale data platform or data engineering organizations, with a track record of delivering measurable business impact. Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to influence, drive alignment, and secure consensus for platform strategy and investments. Proven ability to define and implement strategic plans, drive technology alignment, and lead large-scale platform transformation initiatives. Deep technical expertise in modern data platforms and architectures (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, GCP). Enablement of AI/ML use cases through data platforms, building AI-ready data foundations and using intelligent tools for engineering efficiency. Experience Leading high-performing engineering organizations, including encouraging an environment of responsibility, operational excellence, and ongoing improvement. Demonstrated success operating in high-SLA, client-facing environments, including implementing proactive, automated processes to ensure reliability, compliance, and performance at scale. Proven ability to collaborate effectively across data functions (e.g., Governance, Architecture, Product, Analytics, Data Science) and business partners to deliver aligned, high-impact outcomes. Ownership of platform financials, including budgeting, investment planning, and cost optimization. Experience managing strategic vendor and partner relationships, including contract oversight and performance.

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Travel Expectations Up to 25% Pay Range $192,500 - $357,500 per year Additional Information This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching, more details available at At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. #J-18808-Ljbffr WORK180 USA