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Leonardo Alves Francisco

Senior Data Governance & Quality Consultant | Azur

€350/day
Valencia, ES
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Leonardo

I help organisations build reliable, governed, and audit-ready data platforms — combining hands-on technical implementation with strategic data governance across regulated industries.

With 6+ years of experience in pharma, finance, and enterprise data environments, I specialise in:

- Data Governance: Unity Catalog RBAC, workspace isolation, metadata management, access auditing, and policy enforcement across Azure Databricks environments
- Data Quality: Automated DQ framework design, pipeline validation across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers, defect lifecycle management, schema enforcement, and observability
- Data Engineering: Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, ADF, Medallion Architecture, and IDMP/EMA-compliant pipelines
- Access Control: Role-based and attribute-based access models, Microsoft Entra integration, UC Permissions API, and cross-workspace governance

Track record across engagements:
500+ tables validated across multi-layer pipelines
80+ pipelines monitored with automated quality gates
4,500+ defects identified and triaged
12 audits supported with traceable, evidence-grade controls

I work as a senior freelance consultant, available for remote projects across Europe. If you are building or scaling a data platform and need governance, quality, or Databricks expertise — let's talk.
  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

  • English

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • European Medical Agency (EMA)
    Data Quality Specialist
    January 2026 - Today (6 months)
    My work includes: → Pipeline Validation: Designing automated and manual DQ control layers across Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion layers — validating schema enforcement, referential integrity, and business rule compliance. → Defect Lifecycle Management: Operationalizing structured defect creation, triage, ownership assignment, and SLA tracking to ensure full traceability from source to report. → Standards Compliance: Implementing data quality standards aligned to IDMP/PMS and EMA regulatory requirements across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers. → Pipeline Development: Building ULCM (EMA Union List of Critical Medicines) ingestion pipelines with ATC hierarchy integration and Gold layer design for Power BI consumption. → Observability: Using metrics and feedback loops to reduce recurring issues and improve data trust over time.
    Azure Databricks PySpark Delta Lake Data Quality Microsoft Power BI
  • Skyworks
    Data Governance Specialist
    August 2025 - Today (11 months)
    My work includes: → RBAC Architecture: Designing and operationalizing role-based access control models aligned with Azure AD / Microsoft Entra — workspace binding strategy, catalog isolation, and UC Permissions API governance across 7 production catalogs. → Metadata Management: Supporting metadata discovery, documentation, and stewardship to improve transparency and traceability across all data assets in Unity Catalog.
    → Access Governance: Auditing cross-workspace access via system.access.audit and building catalog/object/workload inventories with Delta tables for full traceability. → Identity Integration: Leveraging Microsoft Graph API to integrate group and membership information into access governance workflows. → Policy Enforcement: Automating governance workflows and enforcing standards across dev, QA, and production environments.
    Unity Catalog Azure Databricks Python Python (Programming Language) Data Governance
  • BMW USA
    Data Quality Assurance Lead
    August 2024 - December 2025 (1 year and 4 months)
    My work includes: → DQ Framework: Built an end-to-end data quality framework with automated defense layers — blocking and warning pipelines, defect creation workflows, and quality scorecards. → Rule Versioning: Introduced versioning for DQ rules and configurations using Redis and JSON-based structures, enabling controlled rollouts, full traceability, and consistent execution across dev/staging/prod. → Testing Strategy: Designed and executed comprehensive manual and automated test plans across reporting and ETL pipelines to validate complex scenarios and edge cases. → Defect Management: Established a structured defect lifecycle (creation, prioritization, triage, and follow-up) to accelerate resolution and reduce data trust incidents. → Stakeholder Alignment: Coordinated with cross-functional teams to align data quality standards and streamline ozperations end-to-end.
    Data Quality Data architecture Python (Programming Language) Azure Databricks Microsoft Power BI

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Education

  • Getting Started with Data Analytics on AWS Global Data Protection Inteligência Artificial Fundamentos Total Data Quality Big Data Specialization
    Getting Started with Data Analytics on AWS Global Data Protection Inteligência Artificial Fundamentos Total Data Quality Big Data Specialization
  • Specialization, Total Data Quality
    University of Michigan
    2023
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