Design the DB strategy for the entire unit, implement it and should have done this end to end in his past. Architecting and developing a data ingestion framework to dramatically reduce the implementation timelines of new data sources for retail sales & marketing from external and internal data sources.
Develop and automate the creation of data access API's and Web Services to aid analysis with an emphasis on data visualization as well as build a robust metadata repository which captures technical and business metadata to facilitate data discovery, exploration and self-service.
Implement and extend data pipeline orchestration tools to capture complete data lineage.
Develop a data quality architecture which propagates quality metadata across the data lineage and implements in-process data health checks.
Simplification and automation of existing manual processes.
Create policies and processes for data governance.
Work directly with business users to ensure proper following of set policies and processes related to data governance.
Coach/Evangelize/Mentor team members on data lake technologies and DevOps methodology.
Develop and collaborate with AB's infrastructure management team to build an elastic "analytics sandbox" environment which supports DataOps (continuous integration, continuous deployment, and statistical process control) methodologies.