William Sell
Data & AI Strategy Leader | Helping Enterprises Operationalize Modern Data Platforms | Bridging Business & Technical Leadership
- Role
- Sr Solutions Architect at phData
- Location
- Sioux Falls, SD, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About William Sell
Senior Data Strategy & Architecture Leader with 10+ years of experience helping organizations modernize data platforms, build scalable cloud infrastructure, and enable advanced analytics and AI. I specialize in aligning data capabilities with business outcomes, whether that\'s enabling healthcare analytics at scale, modernizing a financial platform for compliance, or leading migrations to Snowflake and Databricks.I’ve led data strategy engagements, built forecasting platforms from scratch, recovered failing projects, and advised startups on product-market fit. I thrive in roles where I can bridge technical depth with strategic leadership and help data teams deliver faster, better, and smarter.
Experience
Sr Solutions Architect
Jul 2024 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US
Serve as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients, leading strategic data initiatives that modernize architecture, improve governance, and unlock advanced analytics capabilities. Drive architecture modernization and operational readiness across Snowflake, dbt, Coalesce, and GenAI.Highlights:Designed future-state data platforms and AI operating models supporting MDM, governance, and GenAI use cases.Led strategy engagements delivering 2-year roadmaps, governance models, and business cases that enabled platform modernization.Migrated legacy platforms (Netezza, SQL Server, Teradata) to Snowflake, driving automation and dbt transformation.Recovered critical data engineering projects, coached teams on Agile and quality practices.Authored internal playbooks and frameworks.
Education
University of Minnesota Duluth
Bachelor's degree, Financial Markets
2003 — 2009
Harvard University
Mathematics & Computation
2012 — 2014
Northwestern University
Master of Science (MS), Predictive Analytics
2014 — 2016
Skills
- Amazon Ec2
- Ercot
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Iso/Rto
- R
- Proprietary Trading
- Api Development
- Financial Analysis
- Java
- Hadoop
- Data Visualization
- Big Data
- Neiso
- Data Analysis
- Restful Webservices
- Quantitative Finance
- Pjm
- Pandas
- Machine Learning
- Test Driven Development
- Miso
- Git
- Multithreaded Development
- Cuda
- Django
- Nyiso
- Python
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