Head of Enterprise Data Platforms in Toronto

About Virgin Media: Virgin Media Ireland is home to the country’s fastest broadband and is the leading provider of connected entertainment and broadcasting. We power millions of connections nationwide every single day, delivering award‑winning ultrafast broadband, TV, mobile and home phone services that keep Ireland working, streaming and communicating at superfast speed.

Our Virgin Media Business division provides the fastest broadband speeds and advanced connectivity solutions for entrepreneurs, SMEs, large organisations and the public sector. Virgin Media Television is Ireland’s number one commercial public service broadcaster, delivering four free‑to‑air channels - Virgin Media One, Virgin Media Two, Virgin Media Three and Virgin Media Four, along with Virgin Media Play, our state‑of‑the‑art free streaming service. We deliver fresh, diverse and original Irish content - from news and current affairs to entertainment, factual and drama - alongside the best of international programming.

About the Role: The Head of Enterprise Data Platforms is accountable for Virgin Media Ireland’s enterprise data strategy, architecture, modelling, governance and operational services. The role owns the delivery, support and continuous evolution of all enterprise data, reporting and analytics platforms, providing trusted, secure and scalable foundations for reporting, digital products, applications, advanced analytics and AI.

Specific Duties & Tasks:

• Enterprise Data Strategy, Architecture & Modelling: Define and execute the enterprise data strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned to business and technology priorities. Set enterprise data architecture principles and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models, common definitions and reusable data products. Drive modern architecture patterns across cloud data warehouses, data lakes, lake houses, streaming, APIs and data products.
• Platform Engineering, Reporting & Operations: Own the engineering, operation, resilience, security, performance and cost management of all enterprise data, reporting and analytics platforms. Lead data warehouses, data lakes, pipelines, ETL/ELT, integration and semantic services, supported by clear service levels and continuous improvement. Enable trusted reporting, self-service analytics, machine learning and AI through certified, discoverable and scalable data services.
• Data Governance, Quality & Leadership: Lead enterprise data governance, ownership, stewardship, metadata, lineage, quality and lifecycle management. Ensure compliance with privacy, cybersecurity, regulatory and risk requirements and chair relevant governance forums. Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams and manage strategic suppliers, investment, budgets and delivery outcomes.
• Collaboration & Enablement: Provide certified data products, common metrics and reusable datasets; enable business-led reporting, analytics, machine learning and AI while maintaining standards for governance, quality, security and reuse. This should be done across a number of business functions in Virgin Media Ireland including Customer Support, Commercial, Wholesale, Finance and the CEO office.

Skills & Expertise:

• Senior leadership experience across enterprise data engineering, architecture, modelling, governance, reporting and analytics platforms.
• Proven delivery and operation of large-scale cloud data ecosystems, including Snowflake and Google BigQuery; experience with Databricks and Azure data services is advantageous.
• Strong expertise in conceptual, logical and physical modelling, data warehousing, lake house architectures, ETL/ELT, real-time and event-driven integration, APIs, metadata, lineage, master data and data quality.
• Experience enabling machine learning, AI-ready architectures and advanced analytics, including governed datasets, feature engineering and model operationalization.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Python, modern data engineering frameworks, BI and semantic modelling platforms, security, privacy, regulatory controls and cloud FinOps.
• Track record of leading multidisciplinary teams, strategic partners and complex transformation roadmaps, with strong executive communication and commercial judgement.

The Person: A strategic, outcomes-focused technology leader who translates business ambition into trusted and scalable data capabilities. Collaborative and influential, able to clarify accountabilities and build effective partnerships across central technology and federated business teams. Committed to operational excellence, responsible innovation, talent development and a strong data-driven culture.

Virgin Media is an equal opportunities employer. Having a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. Join and you’ll be part of the Virgin Media family. You can trust us to do the right thing by you. We’re a great place to work and we offer impressive benefits too. Get ready for a generous holiday allowance, birthday day off, contributory pension, healthcare and discounts on our fantastic mobile broadband and cable.