Thomas Bailey

Data Engineering Manager @Halfords

Redditch, GB

Managing a team of 6, both in-house and augmented staff, building a self-service focused group data platform with foundations on Azure Databricks. Improved uptake of Databricks product offering, including: Introduction of Delta Live Tables (DLT), deploying key high priority initiatives in 50% of the development time versus usual efforts whilst introducing standardised data quality monitoring for Halfords’ source data estate. Use of Databricks Asset Bundles to eradicate manual deployments.Onboarded and coordinated offshore managed service partners to provide first line support saving 200 development hours per week redirected for value delivery.Rebuilt legacy processes to align with software development lifecycle best practices to reduce risk of human error in live environments.Identified key cost saving initiatives for correct Databricks cluster usage, moving estate away from expensive all-purpose to cost-efficient job and serverless compute saving c.40% compute costs per migrated pipeline. Introduced direct querying best practice principles for Power BI dashboards to reduce Fabric capacity usage & cost.Onboarded ML Ops capability to enforce best practices for continual delivery of data science solutions within Databricks.

Universidad de Zaragoza

Erasmus Programme

University of Bristol

BA (Hons)

College of Law, Birmingham

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

Aix-Marseille University

Erasmus Programme