Richard Kirk

Senior Data Management Engineer & Partner

Leveraging my extensive track record, I offer the leadership and experience to elevate your data team. I translate complex concepts into actionable strategies, ensuring your team avoids common pitfalls to implement solutions that work in the real world.

My core skill sets include data engineering, business intelligence and data warehousing, acquired over nearly two decades from a software engineering background into data analytics. Establishing the core principles of data management within the changing landscape of platforms and tooling.

Key Experiences

FSI

Led the strategic re-architecture of large-scale data warehouses involving the introduction of Data Vault 2.0 methodology. This overhaul modernized data management practices, ensuring greater scalability, agility, and compliance with evolving regulatory requirements.
Delivered greenfield analytics systems for finance and audit departments, enhancing internal controls, transparency, and reporting efficiency across the organization.
Design and implementation of enterprise-wide data warehouses and reporting tools to enable crucial business functions. Examples include the facilitation of rapid scaling of business operations for a nationwide deposit guarantee scheme in response to market volatility whilst minimizing cost during periods of stability.

Commodities

Augmented client internal teams through hands-on workshops, supporting internal engineers to become comfortable leading data modeling and implementation within weeks to ensure the ongoing success of projects and reduce reliance on external support.
Design and development of reporting and analytics systems to support energy trading and risk management activities such as the integration of trading PnL with risk measures to lay the foundation for inter departmental enterprise-wide analytics and the optimisation of data ingestion and transformation workflows to align with business and regulatory requirements.
Integration and analytic augmentation of industry specific fuel logistic system enabling planners to gain an edge over their competitor and subsequently win a valuable contract to manage and supply retail fuel business for one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains.

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