Senior Data Platform Lead

Securitas Group Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services. With around 322 000 employees in 44 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world’s best-known companies. Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets. Securitas IT Securitas’ vision is to become the Intelligent Protective Services Partner by being client centric, data driven and people focused. Our protective services help make your world a safer place. IT is a key function in enabling the modern and powerful technology needed to fulfil Securitas’ business strategy. About the role The Senior Data Platform Lead is a critical senior technical leadership role responsible for owning and evolving the organization's core data platform, driving engineering excellence across Databricks, Fabric and the broader technical data ecosystem. This leader will balance hands-on technical oversight with strategic engagement - acting as the connection between platform engineering, business demand, and strategically important data programmes. This role suits a seasoned data engineer or architect who has grown into leadership, retains a strong technical grounding, and can credibly engage with both engineers and executive stakeholders. Securitas Group utilizes a federated operating model, and it is essential that the Data Platform supports this framework while aligning with our strategic objectives. Key responsibilities 1. Data Platform Ownership & Engineering Leadership • Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the organization's data platform, with Databricks as the primary compute and analytics engine. • Provide a clear Service Description of the Platform options and expected roles and responsibilities in our Federated Environment. • Lead platform reliability, performance, and scalability - ensuring SLAs are met and operational risk is minimized. • Establish and enforce engineering standards, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and testing practices all in a Federated Environment • Oversee cluster configuration, cost management, and resource optimization within Databricks. • Drive adoption of platform best practices across Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, and related components. 2. Demand Management & Stakeholder Engagement • Create a true Business/Consumer orientated Data Products shopping experience. • Work with the Enterprise Data Governance team to technically realise data governance and data quality frameworks in the platform. • Act as the primary technical point of contact for data platform demand, triaging and prioritising requests from business units, analytics teams, and product owners. • Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into platform solutions, balancing speed-of-delivery with architectural integrity & platform roadmap. 3. Strategic Data Program Support • Serve as a senior technical contributor and platform authority on enterprise data transformation programs (e.g. cloud migration, data product adoption, AI/ML enablement). • Collaborate with data architects, data product owners, and data governance leads to align platform capabilities with strategic initiatives. • Provide technical due diligence and risk assessment for new tools, vendors, and integration patterns. • Contribute to data strategy documentation, business cases, and executive presentations where platform capability is relevant. 4.