Pieter Hens
Data Quality & Master Data Management Expert
Pieter@hensdataconsulting.com
+32 0473 444 925
Pieter@hensdataconsulting.com
+32 0473 444 925
2013-2015 Capgemini
BI Consultant
2015-2019 Deloitte
Senior Consultant Analytics & Cognitive
2020- Hens Data Consulting
Self-Employed
Pieter has 10 years of hands-on Technical, Functional and Management expertise in various Data Programs. He leverages his technical expertise to find and develop data solutions to complex business problems.
Pieter is an expert in steering Master Data Management, Data Quality and various Data Enablement solutions for large organizations.
Pieter has international experience in the Banking, Finance, Distribution, Retail and Automotive Manufacturing sectors.
Pieter is an expert in rolling out large, Industrialized data solutions concerning the full Data Lifecycle.
He has proven experience in Data Architecture and solution design.
He has extensive expertise in how to build and steer Data Quality and MDM within a Data Driven Organization
He has worked for high-end Consulting companies and has experience in high pressure, challenging delivery. He is an expert in structuring chaos and creating stable ways of working together on data projects.
He was a key player in the team that established a place in the Informatica worldwide innovation award in 2018.
Pieter was the Architect of an organization wide Customer 360° implementation. He designed the architecture for the critical components (DQ,MDM,DG) and steered the development of designed data processes. Aditionally, he was responsible for the design and coordination of the MVP MDM Product (Profisee) and took part in the Vendor Selection of a new tool.
Pieter was Technical Lead and Architect in the team that implemented the Customer 360° solution for a large Insurer in the BeNeLux. He designed and steered the industrialization of the Informatica Data Quality & MDM solution. Later he became Application Owner where he steered the development of the Business Entity Services (API) in order to publish the Golden Profile. He also successfully increased data utilization within the organization.
Product Owner for a leading client in the DIY retail sector regarding an Informatica Product 360° implementation. Pieter was responsible for increasing the operational efficiency of the system, designing and steering implementation of innovative features and improving the overall change and release management process by including a form of Data Governance. Pieter worked closely with the CIO of the organization in order to streamline his operations. He steered the implementation of improvements and processes in the Data Landscape.
Pieter was the Architect and developer of an Master Data Management Solution regarding Assets for a large Belgian distributing company. He was responsible for the analysis and design of several highly technical Analytical use-cases such as predictive asset management, next best action. The platform was completely customized and mostly database driven.
Pieter designed and developed his own Metadata Driven, Tool-Agnostic Data Quality Framework which is rolled out at multiple of his clients as either a stand-alone platform or integrated into an MDM solution. The Framework unifies three core components of any large Data Platform implementation : Data Governance, MDM and Quality and is highly customizable towards different sectors.
Playing a key role at the European Commission managing various projects involving Data Quality, ETL and Regulations.
Pieter was appointed the role of Technical Lead, Architect and ETL developer for a data-warehouse consolidating corporate real estate data. The goal of this project was to calculate the total cost of ownership of the bank's real estate portfolio on a building level. He designed and implemented the architecture, the model and ETL processes consolidating 4 different systems and providing management with valuable insights in their asset portfolio. The entire build and processing was done using SQL database scripts.
Pieter was responsible for the technical design and project roll-out of a Data Integration Layer using Microsoft Azure. A data integration project, fulfilling various requirements of which IFRS. The scope of the platform was later expanded to include data integration requirements from the entire organization, and make the data available for consumption by others.
Pieter worked for a large Pharmaceutical company in the R&D department as an ETL developer/analyst. The aim of the project was to integrate different systems into one consolidated, operational warehouse used for Clinical Trials Analytics. The Data Vault and Kimball methodology were used in different stages of the warehouse with focus to Data Quality and Compliance. Later it was decided to migrate towards a new Teradata platform where he continued his development work. Later he also became responsible for change and release management of the program.
Pieter has 10 years of consulting experience.
By leveraging on his communication skills and technical luggage he is able to help an organization drive value from their data. On top of his role on a project he has consulted business users on multiple strategic initiatives regarding Data Enablement, Data Centricity in order to become a Data Driven Organization. He has provided strategic advice to CDO's and CIO's in various sectors. Additionally he is capable of driving the implementation of these solutions in a pragmatic manner.
Pieter is an expert in creating a single view of your Customer and all associated Dimensions. He has steered the build of multi-domain MDM platform both on premise and in the cloud. He is highly capable of rolling out Operational, Analytical or Hybrid MDM solutions in large international organizations.
Pieter is an expert in analysis, strategy, remediation and monitoring of the quality of data. He is the creator of a Data Quality Framework which supports organizations in their data cleansing efforts from a technical to a business point of view. He is able to provide people with the tools they need to work on the quality of the data.
Pieter has had his first plunge in the Product 360° domain as Application Owner and is eager to expand on this experience.
Pieter believes in a tool-agnostic approach towards data and is capable of working with data in any tool provided. His toolset of choice and expertise revolves around Informatica. Pieter has extensive experience in Informatica products such as :
Informatica MDM - Customer 360°