Profile
Data Expert with 14 years of experience in IT across Products, Telco, Energy and Finance industries. Responsible of leading 30+ people department with Microsoft/Azure technology to support clients with Data Engineering, Data Modeling and Data Visualization challenges.
Experience
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Data and Analytics Guild Lead
Apr 2023 - Present
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Leading a department of 30+ people in data field within Microsoft/ Azure Cloud technology stack. Main responsibilities include:
- Perform employee sales/upsales
- Build and update training framework for employee upskilling
- Aligning with Leadership on Microsoft technology trends and future available roles
- Involvement in new hire orientation
- Strategic decision making for department course of action
- Execution of performance reviews
- Perform technical interviews for external hires
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Data Architect
Private Equity client
Dec 2023 – Dec 2024
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Support client in architectural decision making for data platform implementation. Lead and gave architectural guideance for 7 people nearshore team. Main areas of responsibilties included:
- Implementation and roll-out of data platform
- Build of security portal for data products within data platform
- API Enablement to monetize data products towards client customers
- Support Master Data management capability implementation
- Guidance to increase Data Visualization competence
Technologies: Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure API Management, Azure Gateway, Power BI/ PBI Service, Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure Analysis Services
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E2E Data Platform Lead
Nordic Energy company
Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Joined a very time intense project from timeline perspective to deliver Data Platform solution while SAP implementation was built in parallel for a Nordics Energy company. Main goal was to lead a team of 20 people to deliver datamarts based on SAP data in a data warehouse to be later used for self-service reporting purposes. Was in charge of 2 cross-funtctional teams consisting of Data Engineers (Azure Data Platform) to build E2E pipelines for SAP data ETL processes and Data Visualization Engineers (Power BI) to build end user reporting.
Technologies: SAP, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft SQL, Power BI/PBI Service, Azure Synapse
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Azure Data Platform Tech-Lead
Internal
Aug 2022 – Dec 2024
ACCENTURE, RIGA
In charge of 10+ people team to improve Azure data platform and set up internal Reporting for around 2000 end users. Leading a team of Data Engineers (Azure Data Platform) and Data Visualization Engineers (Power BI). Key achievements:
- Cloud cost reduction by 30%
- Data reload time decreased by 50%
- Improvement of Agile processes to enable timely deliverables
- Provide technical expertise to enhance E2E architecture
Technologies: Azure Data Factory, Microsoft SQL, Power BI/PBI Service, Azure Analysis Services
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Data Management Team Lead & Scrum Master
Central Europe Energy Company
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Team Lead for Development and Application Maintenance Team for Qlik platform - daily maintenance of ~300 report data platform. Since October 2021, Scrum Master for a combined team of Data Engineers (Oracle, AWS Data Lake, Snowflake) and Data Visualization specialists (QlikView and Qlik Sense). Facilitation of Scrum events – Sprint Plannings, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Refinements.
Technologies: Oracle PL/SQL, QlikView, Qlik Sense, Nprinting, Rapidminer, Snowflake, AWS Data Lake
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Data Management Team Lead
Nordics Telco company
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Lead small team (up to 5 people) to build financial and company management reporting within Qlik Sense.
Technologies: Qlik Sense, Microsoft SQL.
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Data Management Team Lead
Nordics retailer
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Lead multiple migration projects as the solution owner for Siebel Marketing and Loyalty modules (5 people team). Main focus for those projects was to migrate B2B and B2C data from legacy source system.
Technologies: Siebel CRM, Siebel Webservices, OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence), Microsoft SQL, Informatica.
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Senior Software developer
Nordics retailer
Sep 2012 - Aug 2015
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Responsible for solutioning and implementation of changes in Siebel CRM and Migration of OBIEE platform from version 10g to 11g. Supported junior developers in their daily tasks.
Technologies: Siebel CRM, Siebel Webservices, Microsoft SQL, OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence)
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Junior Software developer
Nordics retailer and Nordics Media Company
Mar 2011 - Aug 2012
ACCENTURE, RIGA
Responsible for implementing new requirements and changes in Siebel CRM: Marketing, Loyalty and Product Catalog modules.
Technologies: Siebel CRM, Siebel Webservices, OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence), Microsoft SQL.
Education
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Master’s Degree in Computer Sciences
Sep 2012 - Jun 2014
University of Latvia, Riga
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences
Sep 2008 - Jun 2012
University of Latvia, Riga
Certificates
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Jul 2021
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Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
Sep 2020
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Certified QlikView 12 Data Architect
Nov 2018
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Certified QlikView 12 Business Analyst
Nov 2018
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Certified ScrumMaster
Feb 2017