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Ali Guessous

Senior Data Manager - Governance

€799/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Ali

🎯 My Goal:
Make data a strategic asset, usable, governed, and at the service of your organization's performance.

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🚀 Senior Data Manager & Governance | 12 years of experience:
An engineer by training, complemented by a Specialized Master's in IT Management, I have spent over 10 years with consulting firms structuring and managing data programs for large banking and insurance clients, primarily within Chief Data Offices.
For the past 4 years, I have been applying this expertise to other sectors (hospitality, music industry) to structure, validate, and leverage data in a data-driven approach.

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đź’Ľ What I bring to you:

🏗️ Functional Modeling & Data Architecture
→ Design and structuring of data warehouses (Snowflake), for a scalable architecture, agnostic to needs, aligned with business uses and ready for BI / AI exploitation

📚 Documentation & Data Cataloging
-> Data dictionaries, common repositories, business taxonomies, for a shared language between teams and documented, traced, controlled data

📊 Mapping & Data Lineage
→ Clear understanding of your flows, dependencies & impacts

đź§­ Data Governance
→ Roles, responsibilities, processes, maturity indicators

📣 Data Culture & Change Management
→ Workshops, coaching, adoption of data practices

📌 Data Project Scoping & Management
→ Backlog, agile methodology, roadmap, business/IT coordination
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Believe
    Senior Data Manager
    ENTERTAINMENT AND LEISURE
    January 2026 - Today (5 months)
    Paris, France

    Context:


    Maintenance and evolution of an analytical data platform, in a Snowflake environment, serving BI & analytics uses.

    Missions:

    • Modeling and maintenance of the data architecture on the analytical platform.
    • Refactoring of Royalties data: analysis of the existing system, design and implementation of the new data architecture.
    • Participation in the Data convergence project of two entities: alignment of data models and coordination with the relevant teams.
    • Management of rights and access under Snowflake: definition of roles, control of permissions, and compliance with security rules.
    • Participation in the implementation of a Data Quality policy with reporting under Power BI.
    • Populating and structuring Data Galaxy: creation of physical and logical objects, description of transformations, and documentation of data lineage.
    • Quarterly audit of Data maturity following DAMA-DMBOK principles.
    Data Management Data Modeling Data Galaxy Snowflake Data Architecture
  • Accor
    Data Manager - Customer & Loyalty Data
    HOSPITALITY
    September 2022 - December 2025 (3 years and 3 months)
    Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

    Context:

    • Implementation and management of the feeding of an analytical data warehouse for BI & analytics uses.

    Missions:

    • Design and deployment of the data architecture under Snowflake for the Loyalty domain: modeling of business tables and alignment with BI & analytics needs.
    • Documentation of business rules, tables and data, as well as their transformations in the data warehouse.
    • Contribution to the data catalog and data lineage, improvement of quality, and support for product teams in adoption.
    • Supervision of the Data Management team to ensure consistency and homogeneity in practices, standards, and new compliance rules.

    Impact:

    • 32 tables modeled and documented, leading to the creation of 18 Loyalty business dashboards under Tableau.
    Snowflake Data Modeling Data Architecture Business Intelligence Data Catalog
  • HSBC
    Data Manager - Risk & Finance
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    April 2019 - August 2022 (3 years and 4 months)
    Paris, France

    Context:

    • Compliance of Risk & Finance data within the framework of BCBS 239 regulation.

    Missions:

    • Management of BCBS 239 workstreams: identification of critical data, data lineage (Visio), feeding the Group data catalog (Collibra), and quality controls (QlikSense).
    • Transversal contribution to Risk & Finance projects on governance and functional architecture aspects.
    • Key contact during ECB and internal audits to demonstrate traceability and governance of regulatory data.

    Impact:

    • Improved data governance and traceability, facilitating ECB audits and reducing the risks of BCBS 239 non-compliance.
    Data Catalog Data Governance BCBS 239 Collibra

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Education

  • Specialized Master's
    Ecole Centrale Paris
    2014
    Management des Systèmes d'Information
  • Engineer
    UniLaSalle Amiens
    2013
    Réseaux Informatiques et Télécommunications

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