Martin Flippance
Lead Data Architect @Ecclesiastical Insurance UK
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Data Architect @Ecclesiastical Insurance UK
Lead the Data Architecture for the discovery and implementation phases of an Azure & Snowflake based cloud data platform.• As part of a technology consultancy team completed the accelerated discovery phase for the cloud data platform. Worked across Architecture, Analytics and Data Science to produce architecture artefacts to achieve sign-off from senior stakeholders and get the project green-light.• Lead the data pipeline and data model designs during the implementation phase of the greenfield cloud data platform with a technology stack of Azure, Data Factory, Snowflake and DBT.• Created Reference Architecture including for metadata, Data Lineage, Data Governance & Service Management and worked within governance boards to ensure designs were approved and patterns established.
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ABOUT MARTIN FLIPPANCE
Data and analytics professional with 25+ years’ experience of broad and innovative achievements in business intelligence, data warehouse and analytics solutions.Diverse experience across financial services, retail, public sector and commercial industries in technical and business facing roles.15 years of data warehouse & data architecture, design & data modelling, combined with delivering analytics and visualisation solutions.10 years of building, managing and leading teams of developers, engineers and analystsStrong experience of data discovery, data analysis, web analytics, business analysis, project and team management roles as well as leading data engineering.Agile practitioner and evangelist with 10 years experience on numerous projects as a leading team member, regularly as Product Owner and leading Scrum ceremonies.Core Skills• Since 2004 data warehouse & data architecture, design and development with dimensional modelling, including star & snowflake schemas using Kimball, Inmon & Data Vault methodologies.• Project management & experience of Agile/Scrum, DevOps, DSDM and Prince 2 methods with a strong focus on encouraging an Agile approach.• Team management and leadership, coaching and mentoring on all technical and design skills, development methods and communication to understand requirements and provide solutions.• Communicating across all levels of the business from senior to operational and providing consultation on solution design, projects, technologies and deliverables.• Business Analysis for functional and non-functional requirements gathering. Agile ceremonies and artefacts. Technical training delivery and product demonstration.Tech Skills• TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect, Snowflake SnowPro Core Certified• Cloud data solutions architecture including Snowflake & Azure• Data Modelling – Dimensional, Relational, 3NF, Conceptual, Logical and Physical• Data Analysis, Data Quality, Data Discovery & Data Wrangling • ETL/ELT architecture, design & development, experience of DBT, Fivetran, PDI, SSIS and OWB• Complex SQL query writing & optimising on Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server & MySQL• Oracle PL/SQL development, performance tuning and database administration• Data Visualisation experience Cognos Analytics consulting & development, Power BI & Tableau
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