Barry Ralston
Sr Director, Data Engineering delivering business value by transforming data ecosystems with expertise
- Role
- Sr Director, Data Engineering at RxBenefits, Inc.
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Barry Ralston
Seasoned data and analytics executive with over 15 years of experience driving data strategy, leading engineering teams, and building scalable analytics platforms. Known for transforming data ecosystems, delivering customer-centric data products, and aligning analytics with business outcomes. Demonstrated success in high-growth environments—private equity-backed, Fortune 500 subsidiaries, and M&A transitions.
Experience
Sr Director, Data Engineering
Nov 2022 — Present · Birmingham, AL, US
In spearheading the transformation of our company\'s data ecosystem, I perfom a pivotal role in restructuring and modernizing our approach, leading the development of a next-generation data analytics platform with exponential scalability. Beyond technical innovation, I actively contribute to the strategic direction, advising executive leadership on forward-thinking, scalable strategies to future-proof our data landscape amid hypergrowth. Building strategic partnerships and serving as a Co-Founder/Member of the Data Analytics Steering Committee alongside the CFO, CTO, and Chief Product Officer, I collaborated with cross-functional teams to optimize strategic action plans. This ensured our company remained agile and aligned with market shifts in the fast-paced tech landscape. Pioneered strategy and rollout of a scalable, modern analytics data platform to meet the demand for projected growth Built a world-class team from scratch to actualize new growth/product plans and create novel data analytics architecture, hiring, mentoring, and motivating teams to high-performance Nurtured employee development and retention by fostering a culture of mutual trust, actively coaching and supporting the professional growth of each team member, ensuring a positive impact from top to bottom Co-founded with the CFO, CTO, and Chief Product Officer the Data Analytics Steering Committee to ensure the data landscape aligns with the ever-changing, fast-paced changes in the market Fostered a culture of data reliability—up-to-date, accurate, and dependable Restructured Data Engineering resources, significantly optimizing data delivery to meet the diverse analytics needs across the organization (i.e, Business Intelligence team, Business Analysts within functional departments like FP & A and Sales Ops) Tech Stack: Postgres, MySQL, SQLServer, vendor API sources, Kafka and Eventbridge, Parquet/Iceberg on S3, Snowflake, Qlik
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Program in Analytics (Candidate MS Analytics)
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Management, Information Systems
Skills
- Dimensional Modeling
- Sql
- Etl
- Relational Databases
- Data Mining
- Databases
- Data Warehousing
- Software Development
- Ssrs
- Business Intelligence
- Java
- Pl/Sql
- Ssis
- Database Design
- Sql Server
- Sharepoint
- Enterprise Architecture
- Big Data
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Integration
- Sdlc
- Agile Methodologies
- Data Integration
- Data Modeling
- Software Design
- Architecture
- Data Warehouse Architecture
- Vertica
- Business Intelligence Tools
- .net
- Oracle
- Requirements Analysis
- Scrum
- Web Services
- Solution Architecture
- Web Applications
- Soa
- Unix
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Software Project Management
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