Enterprise Data Architecture Lead / Data & AI Platform Leader at Campari Group (2021-06 – Present)
Shape and evolve enterprise-wide Data & AI strategy, platform direction, architecture principles, capability roadmaps and investment priorities in partnership with the Head of Data, CIO-level stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture and senior business leaders.
- Lead the enterprise data capability across architecture, platform engineering, BI, analytics, data science, internal teams and strategic delivery partners through a federated operating model with central standards, governance and design authority.
- Built the modern Azure Databricks data platform from the ground up, enabling secure and scalable ingestion, engineering, analytics, machine learning and AI use cases across 42 teams and a global consumer business.
- Partner with Commercial, Ecommerce, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, HR, IT and market teams to translate strategic priorities into data products, KPIs, semantic models, analytical solutions and decision-support capabilities.
- Own architecture governance and act as Data Design Authority and CAB approver, assuring data, analytics and AI initiatives for value, privacy, security, scalability, resilience, interoperability, operability and cost.
- Established the data-product operating model covering domain ownership, stewardship, lifecycle, data contracts, quality expectations, certification, service levels, adoption and retirement.
- Implemented metadata, lineage and trusted-data foundations with Microsoft Purview and Unity Catalog, improving discoverability, accountability and controlled reuse from source systems to dashboards and AI consumption.
- Evaluate emerging capabilities across Microsoft, Databricks, SAP, machine learning, Generative AI and agentic analytics, advising senior leadership on opportunities, risks, architecture choices and adoption priorities.
- Lead data and AI literacy with HR and capability leadership, helping business and technical communities improve problem framing, data interpretation, governance awareness and responsible AI adoption.
Senior BI / Data Architect at Tata Consultancy Services (2010-03 – 2021-05)
Senior BI / Data Architect across multiple client engagements in North America and globally.
Senior BI / Data Architect - North America and Global Data & Analytics at Diageo (Tata Consultancy Services) (2010-03 – 2021-05)
5+ years engagement supporting North America and Global Data & Analytics initiatives.
- Advised North America sponsors, Directors and senior commercial and technology leaders on multi-year data roadmaps, investment priorities and scalable solutions for sales, outlet execution and commercial analytics.
- Led distributed teams across data engineering, warehousing, analytics and architecture, coordinating enterprise dependencies, delivery partners and market-specific requirements.
- Delivered data products supporting outlet execution, customer and product insight, sales performance and field decision-making; work contributed to Diageo North America Golden Bar and CIO recognition.
Senior BI / Data Architect - Ecommerce and Digital Analytics at Marks & Spencer (Tata Consultancy Services) (2010-03 – 2021-05)
- Designed clickstream, customer-journey and funnel analytics to identify digital drop-offs, prioritise experience improvements and support ecommerce sales performance.
- Translated customer and trading questions into scalable event-data processing, dimensional models, KPIs, semantic measures and decision-ready reporting.
Senior BI / Data Architect - Operational, Asset and SAP Transformation at Scottish Water and Manila Water (Tata Consultancy Services) (2010-03 – 2021-05)
- Designed telemetry, time-series, geospatial and enterprise asset analytics supporting leakage detection, asset-risk prioritisation and maintenance optimisation.
- Supported large-scale SAP and enterprise transformation across asset, operational, master and reference-data domains; Manila Water programme received CIO 100 recognition.
BI Developer at Cognizant Technology Solutions (2006-10 – 2010-02)
- Delivered governed enterprise performance-management solutions for Wells Fargo using SQL and Actuate, including reusable reporting components and object- and page-level security.
- Built migration automation that accelerated delivery by approximately six months and improved migration efficiency by around 50%.
