Paulo de Pinho
Paulo is an accomplished data and digital transformation executive with 20+ years of international leadership experience in financial services. Proven track record with consistently excellent ratings, delivering enterprise-scale data architecture, governance, and analytics capabilities. Drives strategic uses of data, regulatory data compliance, CX excellence and commercial growth. From recently leading the M&A data integration at BAWAG, after migrating Barclays data warehouses, architectures and ML/AI to cloud platforms, to having built digital banking platforms across 7 countries for Barclaycard, he brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, hands-on technical delivery and people leadership. Trusted advisor and operator at CDO level, with in-depth expertise in AWS, Cloudera Hadoop, Snowflake, CRM, customer insight and financial products.
About Me
Jurisdiction
Germany
Notable Employer
- Head of Data Strategy & Delivery, Deputy Chief Data Officer at BAWAG Group, formerly Barclays Consumer Bank Europe
Experience
Head of Data Strategy and Delivery (VP) • BAWAG Group (as successor of Barclays “Consumer Bank Europe”) • Hamburg, Germany Key Responsibilities: • Defined and delivered Germany’s post-M&A data integration strategy across BAWAG and Barclays platforms. • Initiated Snowflake migration and transitioned data lakes from Hadoop, SAS, and AWS (work in progress) • Built strategic data architecture foundations and governance frameworks for long-term scalability and AI & ML ready data. • Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for data across business and IT functions. • Ensured Data Quality and Master Data consistency across customer systems and towards regulators. Key Achievements: • Highly efficient Barclays data integration into BAWAG Group in only 6 weeks, a critical activity to the M&A’s successful completion in January. • Data architecture foundation, toolset selections and beginning of the warehouse migration from Barclays provisioned platforms to Snowflake (work in progress, currently 40% finished – with 200 TB in total). • Tax Office data integration setup and execution towards regulatory deadlines, annual and quarterly. • Barclays “Consumer Bank Europe” • Hamburg, Germany Key Responsibilities: • Defined and led strategic Data agenda in Germany Chief Data Office. • Led data transformation projects like the data warehouses and platforms migrations, data quality program, Master Data management and Data workstreams in various strategic projects of Germany. • Data Architecture, Data Management and Data Governance. • Led as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for data towards all functions of the Germany and international business. Key Achievements: • Data warehouse migrations from SAS (150 TB) and Teradata (10 TB) to Cloudera Hadoop and then AWS, as the first adopters of the Barclays global strategic data platforms and BAWAG. • Master & regulatory data quality improvements, meeting thresholds. • Hands-on delivery for all Data & Records Management disciplines, including a DQ framework automation, Master & Reference Data management and records retention & disposal. • Build-up of a highly effective team of 3 business data analysts. • Shaping of the Data strategy with the Chief Data Officer.