Interim Director, Data Platforms

Trusted by over 5,000 customers worldwide, Corsearch delivers AI-powered data, deep analytics, and professional services that support brands to market their assets, drive growth, and optimise brand presence against infringement. 

Corsearch enables brand owners to discover, monitor and control the use and misuse of their brands and associated products and services online and is the industry market leader. 

Corsearch does this in an increasingly complex global digital environment, with online brand protection solutions that cover everything from anti-counterfeiting to anti-piracy.

✅The Role

Technology at Corsearch currently consists of Engineering and Data Science functions, with nearly 150 people globally, aligned to Trademark Solutions or Online Brand Protection Business Units.

Trademark Solutions acquires data from 200 jurisdictions globally by means of data feeds, web crawling and publications/gazettes. The master data system ingests, enriches and stores data in order to support a complex ecosystem of platforms which underpin Corsearch’s managed search, screening & watch services.

Corsearch is looking for a strong technical lead to take ownership of the incumbent Data Platform and dependant systems and to transition to a replacement platform using managed services in the cloud.

The ideal candidate will have had prior experience with traditional database-driven software in .Net and Microsoft SQL and more recent experience with modern cloud Data Warehouse, Data Lake and ETL platforms.

Corsearch is looking for someone to stabilise and optimise the performance of the incumbent/legacy systems and to minimise the cost of legacy maintenance.

This role will take responsibility for three existing development & data teams.

This is a hands-on role, with a mixture of technical leadership, leading, coaching & managing teams.

You will work closely with the VP of Engineering for Trademark Solutions (who owns the Product development and is building the new Cloud Data Platform), the Director of Delivery Engineering (DevOps) and the VPs of Product and Innovation.

✅Responsibilities and Duties

Lead 

• Takeownershipof the legacy platforms and data ingestion processes

• Own the tech stack, tooling & technology decisions

• Management of 3-4 teams, approx. 30 FTEs in total

• Providehands-on technical and architectural leadership

• Be accountable for on time delivery of awesome data services

• Champion efficiency, automation, observability, and general software development best practice

Implement 

• Optimise the performance and stabilityof legacy systems

• Reduce maintenance & operational costsof legacy systems and reinvest into a new modern data platform

• Realign thetalent and capabilitiesof the team towards modern cloud based technologies

• Increase levels of automation

• Establishmonitoring and measurementof data quality & ingestion processes

• Assure code quality and ensure full documentation, including flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code, for all developed solutions

Engage 

• Ensureproject & technical alignmentwith other teams in Trademark Solutions

• Align andintegrate withAI & Data Science teams

• Share knowledge, guide the teams and the wider Corsearch technology community

• Occasional travel to Corsearch sites where the teams are located

✅Essential

Technical Skills

• .Net, Microsoft SQL, Web Applications, Services

• Database-driven systems; stored procedures, SSIS, etc.

• Other relational databases, such as MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL

• Data Warehouses, such as Snowflake, Redshift

• Data Lakes & Cloud ELT/ETL

• Distributed Processing & Querying, such as Spark and Athena

• Data analytics & tooling using both classical and ML approaches

• AWS hosting & managed services

• Containerised and serverless architectural patterns, K8S/EKS & lambdas

• Non-relational databases such as Redis or MongoDB

• Centralised logging such as DataDog or ELK

• Source Control and CI/CD systems, such as Git

• Management & leadership experience of 10+ people

• Jira and Confluence

• Technical documentation, such as coding styles, branching strategies and functional specifications

• Automated enforcement of policies (e.g. linting, static analysis, stylecop)

• Agile development practices and continuous improvement

• Adopter of Open Source and awareness of intellectual property concerns

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Science or similar field

✅Beneficial Skills & Experience: 

• Data visualisation tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI

• Elasticsearch or Solr

• Cassandra

• Queuing and streaming with RabbitMQ and Kafka

• Infrastructure automation & DevOps, such as Terraform and Harness

Corsearch is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and does not tolerate discrimination of any kind. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic. Together, we are working proactively to build a workplace where everyone can belong and be at their best selves. Together, we make an Impact.