About Ruben
I am an Enterprise Data Platform Director with 20+ years of experience transforming global Business Intelligence and Data Analytics ecosystems. My career reflects a successful transition from technical specialist to strategic leader, guiding complex IT modernization projects, diverse teams, and multimillion-dollar platforms. I specialize in building scalable, self-service data platforms that empower analytical, AI, and ML communities worldwide. Modernized Enterprise Data Platform on AWS, enabling +60 analytical teams running on average +500k daily queries coupled with optimized AWS cloud spend and 3rd party licensing of 3M€ during 2024 and +1.5M€ throughout 2025. My leadership combines technical depth with financial rigor, ensuring cost-efficient, secure, and future-proof architectures.
Specialized in building stable data platforms (a mix of on-prem in Private Cloud and Software as a Service), managing global teams and data enabling AI HUB through the full lifecycle of Exploration, Ideation, Incubation and Industrialization. I have managed global teams peaking at 140 professionals with a +95% retention rate, consistently ensuring delivery excellence even during organizational change. I focus on creating a safe, empowering environment where individuals can grow, innovate, and think independently, while guiding them through complex challenges and helping distinguish between urgent and important priorities.
Beyond technology, I am recognized for bridging technical and business stakeholders as a central point of contact, negotiating contracts, facilitating communication to drive cultural change across global organizations.
I can help on activities related to Team Lead-Manager / Tech Lead / Platform Owner / Architect / Governance / Security / Project Manager / Operations.
Catalan
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
French
Basic
Can work on-site
Barcelona (up to 50km), Girona (up to 50km)
Experience
- SCHNEIDER ELECTRICEnterprise Data Platform OwnerJanuary 2020 - January 2025 (5 years)Barcelona, SpainFrom creating the Analytical Data layer to driving the strategic direction, architectural evolution, and ownership of the global Enterprise Data Platform (including the Enterprise Data Lake on AWS and Informatica suite), overseeing its scale, security, cost control and modernization across a cloud-first mandate. This role included E2E project Architecture reviews in collaboration with Enterprise Architects and Digital Risk Leaders, ensuring full alignment with corporate governance, financial optimization targets, and long-term technology roadmaps. Strategic Data Governance & Quality:• Data Governance: Feeding the Collibra model and enabled the transition to Informatica Catalogue (ICMS), enabling a federated model for +20 Data Offices to maintain metadata integrity across domains and ensuring a 'Single Version of Truth' together with data lineage and ER diagrams.• Data Excellence Framework: Enabled teams' compliance with DCAM framework with proactive data quality monitoring and led the platform generating Golden Records for key master data referentials such as Product and Vendor, significantly improving decision-making reliability.Regional & Functional Data Lake Ownership (2022 – 2024):-NAM DWH: Directed the NAM legacy ecosystem, ensuring high availability through a hybrid stack of Informatica, AWS, Airflow, and Qlik.-Finance IntelDS: Governed a standalone Databricks/AWS financial data lake as a strategic exception, securing business case continuity and technical compliance while negotiating the final enterprise-wide technology roadmap.Engineering Excellence & Automation:-Platform Scalability & Automations: Engineered a custom automation ecosystem using ServiceNow and GitHub Runners to track and execute +4,000 yearly deployment requests, enabling CI/CD pipelines for raw and unification layers or automatically killing offensive processes.-AI HUB & Integration: Industrialized data delivery pipelines for the AI HUB and cross-platform integrations.
- SCHNEIDER ELECTRICSolutions Architecture ManagerJanuary 2017 - January 2020 (3 years)Led the strategic evolution of the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) from a legacy environment to a modern cloud-first architecture (Birst/Infor) while establishing the foundation for future Big Data analytics through the design and governance of the Enterprise Data Lake (Intel Data Store on AWS). Directed multi-skilled teams focused on architecture, platform optimization, and high-performance development, ensuring the continuous delivery of scalable and reliable analytics solutions across the global organization.
- SCHNEIDER ELECTRICSenior BI ArchitectJanuary 2014 - January 2017 (3 years)Pioneered the strategic modernization of the company's Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Analytics landscape, moving beyond traditional systems to build a scalable, enterprise-grade data foundation. This effort included architecting and launching the company's first Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) by successfully migrating custom ETL processes from PL/SQL to a new dedicated Informatica PowerCenter Platform.In parallel to this, worked on introducing and scaling Tableau as a modern self-service solution, strategically deploying the underlying infrastructure across two key regions (Europe and US). This dual platform strategy empowered a worldwide user community to achieve faster, decentralized insights, significantly reducing IT backlog and accelerating data-driven decision-making across the organization.
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Education
- Building Great Leaders Level 2Franklin Covey2025Building Great Leaders Level 2
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Amazon Web ServicesAWS2022AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services