Director, Integrated Data & Architecture

Role Purpose

The Director, Integrated Data & Architecture is accountable for establishing a secure, trusted, and interoperable data foundation across the airport company and its aviation ecosystem.

The role will create a unified single source of truth, define enterprise and cross-partner data standards, lead architecture integration across legacy and future systems, and enable data-driven operations, performance management, and digital innovation.

This position is central to reducing fragmentation across more than 20 data environments and transforming data into a strategic asset for operational excellence, commercial growth, safety, and regulatory confidence.

Key Accountabilities

Integrated Data Strategy

• Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for data integration, governance, and platform modernization.
• Align investments to corporate strategy, operational resilience, and customer experience.
• Establish principles for interoperability across current and future systems.

Enterprise & Ecosystem Architecture

• Own end-to-end data architecture including integration patterns, master data, metadata, APIs, and information flows.
• Rationalize legacy platforms and reduce duplication.
• Ensure scalability for AI, automation, and predictive capabilities.

Data Governance & Control

• Establish data ownership and stewardship across business units.
• Implement policies covering quality, security, privacy, retention, and lifecycle.
• Lead governance councils and enforce adherence to standards.

Single Source of Truth

• Deliver certified, trusted datasets for executive reporting and operational control.
• Harmonize definitions, KPIs, and metrics across stakeholders.
• Eliminate conflicting reports.

Aviation Ecosystem Integration

• Define frameworks for data exchange with airlines, ground handlers, authorities, concessionaires, and mobility partners.
• Support collaborative decision making through shared and synchronized data.
• Lead data standardization in line with international best practice.

Platform & Delivery Oversight

• Sponsor and oversee implementation of the enterprise data hub / lake / warehouse.
• Govern vendors, integrators, and technology partners.
• Ensure value realization from investments.

Risk, Cyber & Compliance

• Reduce operational and regulatory risk arising from inconsistent or poor-quality data.
• Ensure secure cross-organizational information exchange.

Change & Capability Development

• Promote data literacy and accountability.
• Embed governed, data-driven ways of working.

Reporting Line

Typically reports to: VP Digital Transformation & Innovation

Acts as a strategic peer to leaders in Operations, Commercial, Finance, Technology, Security, and Risk.

Leadership Scope

• Build and lead capabilities across governance, architecture, engineering, and analytics enablement.
• Chair enterprise and cross-partner data forums.
• Direct major transformation programs and associated budgets.

Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in IT engineering
• 12–15+ years in data, digital, or enterprise architecture leadership.
• Proven success integrating complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience implementing governance and master data frameworks.
• Strong executive influencing and change leadership capability.
• Aviation, transport, or regulated infrastructure experience preferred.