Central to Alpiq's strategy is a growing and dynamic energy trading, sales and origination business which relies on cutting edge IT services and applications to compete and succeed.

We are an international team of software developers, software engineers, solution architects & project managers whose mission is to build and maintain Alpiq's IT services and applications for a dynamic energy business.

In the role of Head of BI & Data Architecture, you will be part of the Data & Analytics Leadership Team and actively contribute to the continuous development of our Information Technology Landscape and approach which is the foundation of our transformation towards an information driven company.
 

Main responsibilities

• You are technical lead and manager for a team of data engineers which develop and maintain business intelligence services 
• You will maintain day-to-day operations including incident prioritization and resolution and own operational KPI's for business intelligence
• You engage with the relevant stakeholders to define and ensure alignment of solutions with the overall architecture and IT strategy in conjunction with the architecture team
• You enhance data quality, data governance and data processes leveraging existing and/or non-existing solutions.
• You maintain the data community using the forum to drive development of standards, and best-practices based on community needs around data management
• You maintain and enhance Conceptual/Logical/Physical data models for the Enterprise and own data architecture 
• You evaluate new and emerging technologies and make recommendations on how they should or should not be used.
   

Main qualifications

• MS in Business Administration, Information Technology or similar
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; proven ability to communicate with stakeholders up to C-suite. German or French would be a plus.
• Strong business orientation, preferably with experience in energy industry, trading, finance or risk
• 10+ years technical leadership experience in the data & analytics or other IT domains, with a demonstrated ability to lead teams with a high standard of communication both downwards, laterally and upwards
• 10+ years experience in data warehousing, data modeling and data governance
• 5+ years experience in data engineering, with experience in a programming language: Python, Angular, Java
• 2+ years experience in business intelligence solutions including experience in: Snowflake, Data Vault, MS Power BI, SAP Hana, SAP BO, SAP Data Services, Fivetran, DBT
• 2+ years experience in project management, agile working, strategy development, networking & stakeholder management
• Experience working with AWS