Head of Data Enablement and Governance

• Oct 2021 - Present

Manager , Data Governance

• Mar 2020 - Oct 2021

• Defining, facilitating and reviewing the establishment of data governance vision and associated strategy. • Establishing and maturing the organisational data governance roadmap. • Leading projects to ensure alignment to data governance standards and ensuring on time delivery and high quality throughout. • Collaborating with stakeholders in business and technology streams to deliver on DG strategy and roadmap. • Identifying key roles and responsibilities for the data governance organisation and frame and manage ongoing execution of people, process and technology. • Engaging with enterprise architecture to ensure solutions follow the technology roadmap for the organisation. • Ensuring data governance foundations align with the overall data architecture and data management principles. • Defining roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensuring clear accountability for stewardship of the enterprise information assets. • Defining and implementing data governance KPI’s at organisation, team and individual levels. • Working with different vendors to identify the appropriate tools designed for the governance, strategy and design roadmap to integrate them to the enterprise.

Data Governance ,architecture and Engineering Manager

• Dec 2017 - Mar 2020

• Managing all data in the enterprise data warehouse and facilitate inventorying and cleansing of datasets.• Accountability for data quality services, cleansing, profiling and end-to-end management.• Leading and improving the quality and value of core data assets, responding to regulatory protection requirements as well as supporting the strategic requirements of the department.• Working with external stakeholders to remove redundancy of data across enterprise as well as streamlining usage across data and analytics tools.• Resourcing and day to day operational management in the data engineering space.• Mentoring and guiding team members in daily activities as well as towards career growth and plans.• Ownership of the management and governance of the metadata catalogue.• Managing a dedicated team of data engineers to align the team with business priorities and encourage best use of data assets.• SME advisory on what data we have in IDC and the enterprise data warehouse.• Communicate with team and business analytics users on data coverage and data quality issues that need addressing.• The operation and management of the SAP HANA analytics workspace for the analytics community.• Working with and influencing the analytics community to encourage self-service analytics and assist and enable the piloting of BI reporting tools.• Assisting the business with data analysis and different analytics and visualisation in keeping with the latest available reporting tool.• Assisting with the data identification and advice of what data we have to the analytics community.• Assisting the analytics community with data model support, data provisioning and ad hoc data extracts.• Lead and facilitate an analytics community of practice.

Platform owner - Enterprise Data Analytics on Google Cloud

• Feb 2018 - Apr 2019

• Working through platform requirements through a procurement process to select a vendor for delivery.• Capturing and reporting metrics on the project progress and performance.• Engaging stakeholders and facilitating communication via various business channels.• Managing a dedicated team of data engineers to align the team with business priorities and encourage best use of data assets.• Working with the vendor selected for delivery to ensure quality of deliverables and adherence to project timelines.• Engaging with enterprise architecture to ensure solution follows the technology roadmap for the organisation.• The operation and management of technical artefacts related to project delivery like BRS, data architecture and solution architecture.• Leading weekly portfolio call for project engagements with senior leadership across vendor and organisation.• Defining roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensuring clear accountability for stewardship of the enterprise information assets.• Assisting the business with data analysis and different analytics and visualisation in keeping with the latest available reporting tool.• Working with different vendors to identify the appropriate tools designed for the new platform and designing the roadmap to integrate them to the enterprise.

Data Management Lead

• Jan 2014 - Nov 2017

Work with all IDC colleagues to manage what data we have in the Enterprise Data Warehouse, and facilitate inventorying, cleansing of datasetsResponsible for data quality services, cleansing, profiling and end-to-end managementResponsible for the management and governance of the Metadata CatalogueSME advisory on what data we have in IDC and the Enterprise Data WarehouseLoop back to team and business analytics users on data coverage and data quality issues that need addressingResponsible for the operation and management of the SAP HANA Analytics workspace for the analytics communityWork with and influence the analytics community to encourage self service analytics and assist and enable pilot of BI reporting toolsAssist business with analysis of data and different analytics and visualisation keeping in line with the latest available reporting toolAssist with the data identification and advisory of what data we have to the analytics communityAssist the analytics community with data model support, data provisioning and ad hoc data extractsLead and facilitate analytics community of practice

Senior BI Analyst

• Jun 2014 - Dec 2015

Import tranform ,validate , cleanse and gnerate reprting of datasets across different technology and reporting platforms.Extract and load data using ETL tools,interpret the same, analyze results to produce ongoing reportsDevelop and implement processes and strategies that enhance and optimize data quality thereby driving best value to business processes.Understanding of different BI reporting tools and varied platforms and efficient use of them to interpret the data in different views to suit organisational needs as well as tailor them to required business strategies.

Corporate Data Warehouse Reporting Specialist

• Sep 2012 - May 2014

Creation and scheduling of reports using Oracle procedures and UNIX PERL backend.Liaise with business stakeholders to produce operational reporting.Translate report requirements in specifications and use SQL to generate data extract thatcan be rendered into identified output format.Use Datwarehouse Best practices and align them with business requirements to deliver best values to business processesDesign and developement for modification to existing datawarehouse backend and web front end application

Senior Sofware Engineer

• Sep 2010 - Sep 2012