Morgan Stanley — Glasgow
Senior Snowflake Developer / Engineering Lead – Data Platform | Mar 2023 – Present
- Lead the design, build, and operation of a modern enterprise data platform supporting business‐critical analytics and reporting workloads in a regulated financial services environment.
- Own overall technical architecture and design across data ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics layers, ensuring scalability, resilience, and alignment with enterprise standards.
- Work closely with business and technology product owners to drive backlog prioritization, delivery planning, and roadmap execution across 60+ production sprints, achieving zero post‐release defects.
- Provide hands‐on development across complex SQL pipelines, cloud data services, and platform automation, balancing leadership with individual technical contribution.
- Drive platform reliability and operational excellence, reducing production incidents through improved engineering standards, proactive monitoring, and structured root‐cause analysis.
- Line manage and mentor data engineers, overseeing delivery quality, performance objectives, and career development while scaling team capability.
- Define and enforce engineering standards, SLAs, and governance controls for production data pipelines and datasets.
- Collaborate with Architecture, Security, Risk, and Operations teams to ensure regulatory compliance, data controls, and production readiness across all environments.
- Actively support the platform in a DevOps model, including involvement in production support, incident triage, and risk mitigation.
Key Technologies: Snowflake, SQL, PowerBI, Python, Kafka, CI/CD, Git, Agile
Student Loans Company (via Atos) — Glasgow
Technical Design Lead – Data & Analytics | Aug 2015 – Feb 2023
- Owned end‐to‐end technical architecture for large‐scale, cloud‐based data and analytics platforms in a highly regulated public‐sector environment.
- Led platform modernization initiatives, evolving legacy data warehouse and BI solutions into scalable, standardized enterprise platforms.
- Partnered with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and operations teams to align data strategy and delivery roadmaps with organizational priorities.
- Managed and coordinated multi‐site data engineering teams, ensuring delivery consistency, architectural compliance, and predictable execution.
- Established enterprise engineering patterns, data standards, and governance frameworks, improving data quality, platform stability, and cross‐team synergy.
- Oversaw delivery risk management, privacy controls, and regulatory compliance across multiple concurrent programs.
- Delivered executive‐level dashboards and analytics solutions, enabling data‐driven decision‐making for senior leadership.
Key Technologies: Oracle, Cloud Data Platforms, AWS, SQL, ETL Frameworks, Agile, CI/CD
Standard Life Insurance (via Atos) — Edinburgh Senior ETL Developer | Oct 2013 – Aug 2015
- Designed and delivered automated, production‐grade ETL pipelines supporting enterprise reporting and analytics platforms.
- Improved SLA adherence and pipeline reliability through performance tuning and workflow automation.
- Built reusable data engineering components and frameworks, reducing development effort and improving maintainability.
- Provided technical leadership and mentoring to junior developers.
First Data (via Atos) | PNC Bank (via Atos) | Graphic Era University ETL / Database Developer | 2009 – 2013
- Developed and supported enterprise database and ETL solutions across financial services and academic environments.
- Optimized complex SQL workloads, improving system performance and operational efficiency.
- Supported data integration, reporting, and production support activities across multiple teams.
