Senior Manager Information Technology – Data Platforms and Integrations

Position Snapshot: 

• Type of Contract: Full Time
• Function and Stream: NUSA
• Type of work: Hybrid
• Work Language: Fluent Business English

The role:

The Senior Manager Information Technology – Data Platforms and Integrations is accountable for platform sustainability, reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency while delivering scalable data engineering services aligned to business functions and enterprise priorities. The role ensures platforms are optimized to support enterprise data, analytics, and AI capabilities efficiently, while also leading the sustain function so steady-state data assets are continuously monitored, maintained, optimized, and governed for quality, availability, and business continuity. This position is based in Mexico and will partner closely with NUSA business leaders, security, procurement, vendor management, and regional/global IT stakeholders.

What you’ll do:

As a Senior Manager Information Technology – Data Platforms and Integrations you will:

• Define and execute the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for NUSA’s data platforms and integrations in accordance and alignment with Globe and Zone direction, enterprise architecture standards, global platform strategies, and long-term business priorities.
• Lead the delivery and operation of scalable data platform capabilities that enable ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, access, integration, analytics, AI readiness, and data product delivery across the enterprise.
• Ensure seamless integration across upstream data sources and downstream systems, including business applications, analytics platforms, reporting environments, data products, and enterprise services.
• Oversee data engineering services that deliver reusable pipelines, frameworks, standards, and automation aligned to business functions while reducing duplication, technical debt, and delivery friction.
• Lead platform sustainability and reliability, including availability targets, performance management, capacity planning, observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, operational readiness, and business continuity.
• Lead the sustain function for steady-state data assets, ensuring continuous monitoring, maintenance, optimization, data quality, support governance, SLA adherence, and effective escalation across internal teams and outsourced vendors.
• Drive platform optimization and cost efficiency by managing cloud consumption, vendor services, compute/storage utilization, support models, lifecycle management, and opportunities to rationalize or migrate localized assets to standardized global platforms.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, security, privacy, data governance, and global platform teams to embed standards for access controls, lineage, metadata, quality, auditability, compliance, interoperability, and responsible AI enablement.
• Establish operating metrics and executive reporting for platform health, integration performance, delivery throughput, service levels, data availability, data quality, cost, risk, business continuity, and value realization.
• Lead cross-functional teams, managed service partners, and vendor relationships to deliver reliable operations, engineering excellence, modernization initiatives, and measurable business outcomes.
• Build a high-performing, inclusive team culture that develops talent, strengthens technical discipline, improves stakeholder trust, and enables faster delivery of enterprise data, analytics, and AI capabilities.

We offer you:

We offer more than just a job. We put people first and inspire you to become the best version of yourself. 

• Great benefits including salary and a comprehensive social benefits package. We have one of the best pension plans on the market, as well as flexible remuneration with tax advantages: health insurance, restaurant card, mobility plan, etc. 

• Personal and professional growth through ongoing training and constant career opportunities reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset. 

• Hybrid working environment with flexible working scheme. Our state-of-the-art campus is dog friendly and equipped with a medical center, canteen and areas to co-create network and chill! 

• Recreation activities such as yoga, Zumba, etc. and a wide range of volunteering activities.

Join our global team of IT professionals at Nestlé, driving daily innovation and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to address digital opportunities. Grow professionally in a dynamic and impactful environment, collaborating with business partners worldwide to deliver integrated technology solutions!

What will make you a great fit?

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, Business Technology, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in information technology, data engineering, data platforms, integration architecture, analytics platforms, IT operations, or related technology leadership roles.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing teams, vendors, managed services, delivery portfolios, production operations, or cross-functional technology programs.
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing data platform, integration, or data engineering strategies that support enterprise analytics, AI/ML, reporting, and data product capabilities.
• Strong understanding of modern data platforms and technologies such as Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, SQL, cloud-native data services, orchestration tools, APIs, event-driven integration, and monitoring/observability tools.
• Experience leading platform reliability, production support, incident and problem management, SLA governance, operational readiness, monitoring, business continuity, cost optimization, and vendor-managed operations.
• Strong knowledge of data integration patterns, data pipelines, batch and streaming processing, data access patterns, data quality, metadata, lineage, governance, security, privacy, auditability, and compliance.
• Ability to align business needs, enterprise architecture standards, global platform direction, financial stewardship, and operational priorities into a clear roadmap and execution plan.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, communicate technical strategy clearly, manage ambiguity, lead change, and drive accountability across matrixed business, IT, vendor, and global teams.
• Strong leadership, people development, stakeholder management, vendor management, financial management, executive communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise data platform modernization, lakehouse architecture, data warehouse modernization, cloud migration, integration strategy, or data product platform enablement.
• Experience governing outsourced vendors, managed service providers, L2/L3 support teams, offshore delivery teams, platform engineering teams, or data engineering delivery partners.
• Experience with ITSM and operational excellence practices such as ITIL, ServiceNow, incident command, post-incident reviews, change management, release management, runbooks, operational dashboards, and service reporting.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization, FinOps, platform rationalization, lifecycle management, technical debt reduction, automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and developer productivity improvement.
• Exposure to AI-ready data foundations, MLOps enablement, feature engineering, semantic layer enablement, vector search, data contracts, data observability, or metadata-driven automation.
• Certifications such as ITIL, PMP, TOGAF, Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Data Engineer, Snowflake SnowPro, or related cloud/data platform credentials are a plus.

Not a 100% match? No worries! Nestlé supports your personal growth with customized development solutions.

What you can expect in your application journey:  
 
1. Hit apply and enter our job portal.

2. Submit your application with your CV.

3. We will contact relevant applicants.

4. Interviews (HR, Hiring team and stakeholders).

5. Feedback.

6. We make an offer.

7. Location dependent checks and pre-onboarding.

8. First working day.

About Nestlé:

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company with brands including KitKat, Nescafé, Maggi, Purina, among many others. We are approximately 275,000 employees strong, motivated by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 94.4 billion sales in 2022, we have an expansive presence, with 344 factories in 77 countries. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.

We encourage the diversity of applicants across gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief and disability.