Anahita Saghafi

Lead Data Architect - Senior Architect

Netcompany

Managing Data Architect

Netcompany UK - Data Capability Lead

Lead Senior Data Architect 

King

Part of the Data Analytics Core Data Services in Shared Tech London, I worked with data teams across all Kings' locations such as London, Barcelona and Stockhom to create architecture solutions for data initiatives such as GDPR compliance, Google Cloud Platform Data Warehouse migration and Google BigQuery Customer facing Data Warehouse (AKA King Data Commons).
Worked on and specified solutions for data quality, reference data management and data modelling (conceptual, logical and physical), promoting data management best practices and data modelling standards. 
Owned the Core Data Model strategy and road map aligned with the the business goals and the requirements expressed by Data Science Tech Leads and DS Community at King.
Created and owned King Business Glossary and initiated King Embedded Data Dictionary solution to facilitate and promote data literacy across the organisation.
Initiated and facilitated the Data Engineering and Architecture Guild at King, providing mentoring and career path framework for Data Engineers and Data Product Owners across Data Analytics.

Senior Data Architect

ASOS.com

As BI Architect in the Data and Integration team, my role was to work as part of the Engineering and BI Teams, in a matrix environment, liaising with the Database Engineers, Solution, System and Data Architects, providing leadership in building and driving the design and delivery of quality Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solutions, adding value by continuously driving the business strategy through the improvements in architecture, design, best practices, frameworks, standards and processes,  empowering  Finance, eCommerce, Customer Insight, and Supply Chain  providing solid Self  Service BI, Analytics and Performance Management capabilities.

Business Intelligence Architect

Barclaycard

Worked with Global Strategy, Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR), Performance Analysis and Marketing teams as part of a business case for a change programme to map the customer journey through three selected business processes, analyse End to End customer touch points and define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for a BPM Operational Dashboard Solution.

Senior MI Consultant (Contract)

IT Performs Ltd

Took on many roles such as Lead BI Consultant, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Agile Scrum Master and MI Analyst on various mission critical Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects working at clients' sites as well as working on internal organisational projects such as research of new products, introducing new best practices, service delivery and support processes, consultant’s time management and service automation. Defined a new BI Strategy Life Cycle Framework and utilised Agile methodologies and practices for delivering data warehouse and MI solutions driven by strategy.

Worked as Scrum Master and Business Analyst,  actively defining agile user stories, running daily standup meetings, planning sprints and releases as well as helping the product owners in maintaining the product backlog catalogue.

Lead Business Intelligence Consultant

Tempus

Managed  major software and data projects:
o	Multiple system migrations and data integration
o	Large ERP systems with multiple data sources
o	Design and implementation of  new data and process requirements
o	Definition and development of data,  reporting and MI requirements

Managed the technical team of eight IT professionals: software developers, test engineers,   implementation engineers, installation engineers and support agents.

Liaised and managed stakeholder expectations for all stakeholders including client project managers, executives, line of business managers, operational supervisors, information workers and end users.

IT Project Manager - ERP, CAFM, CMMS, BI

MTAS

Managed Software Development Life Cycle.

Improved the business processes by redefining the core operational procedures with the aim to develop communication both internally and with all stakeholders. 

Hired the whole new IT team. Winning a significant contract with FM service provider as the result of improved processes and clear company image which has raised the standards across many areas of the business. 

Introduced Business Intelligence across the organisation which resulted in winning a major contract with  flagship NHS Hospital.

Managed the delivery, implementation and training for all contracts won.

Senior IT Manager - Application Development, Delivery and Support

Built foundation for Software Quality Assurance, Source Control, Testing and Release.

Established processes which reduced administration tasks and eliminated loss of information through electronic solutions.

Software Quality Assurance, Test  and Support

Gent University, Belgium

Used applied mathematics and statistics to find ways of optimizing routing in ADSL networks.

Researcher in Electrical Engineering

University of Sheffield

Published two papers, one with my supervisor, John Pym.

PhD in Pure Mathematics

Multi-Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP 
Zachman Certified Enterprise Architect Associate
Kimball University - Dimensional Modeller, ETL Architect and BI Life Cycle Manager
Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Big Data Solution Architect
Coursera Certified in Data Science and Machine Learning 
Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Solution Architecture, Big Data, Business Intelligence and Management Information, Data Analytics, Master Data Management, Reference Data, Data Quality, Solution Design, Relational and Dimensional Data Modelling, Data Integration and ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Glossary, Data Governance, Project Management, Agile, Certified ITIL, Certified PRINCE2, Python, R, SQL, Certified Kimball Data Modeller, Certified Kimball ETL Architect, Cloud Technologies, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Alignment, Strategy Modelling.

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