Robin McKenzie - Data Management Lead, Royal London

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Royal LondonData Management Lead

Oct. 2023Glasgow, Scotland, United KingdomInformatica IDMC administration and implementation, resolving issues and blockers Informatica Data Governance Catalog (CDGC & MCC), Cloud Data Quality (CDQ) and Cloud Data Integration (CDI) Azure Databricks Capability Roadmap Collaboration with Data Governance to implement capabilities to policies Leading a small team of 3 Show and Tell sessions and Community of Practice lead Vendor engagement and relationship for Royal London Working on DAMA CDMP certification

NatWest GroupData Management Platform Lead

Feb. 2021 - Oct. 2023Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomRobin has taken on the role of Data Management Platform Lead within D&A Technology. The role covers constant change and operation of the platform ensuring ongoing stability and performance that provides an award winning robust service for his customers. With Robin’s experience working in this team over many years and with the platform's capabilities he possesses in-depth knowledge and experience. He has great relationships with his stakeholders across the bank from architecture to his key customers and senior leadership. Robin is driving the platform roadmap and strategy with a focus on cloud native solutions such as Informatica Data Management Cloud (IDMC), delivering next generation capabilities for cloud + data + AI. His target is to help customers deliver value faster at a competitive cost of ownership. Maintaining supplier relationships is a key aspect of Robin's role, and this has improved significantly over the past few years. Robin operates a platform of 20+ people across the UK and India consisting of 3 sub teams covering operations, change delivery and a specialist data archiving team. He is responsible for team recruitment and line manager duties. Robin’s role also covers the platform's work reception, providing estimate returns and resource allocation management, consultation on high level solution designs of new use cases via key representation on design forums.

NatWest GroupData Management Lead Engineer

Jan. 2018 - Feb. 2021Edinburgh, United KingdomRobin worked as a data management lead engineer, primarily focusing on Informatica products. This involves technology evaluations, participation in RFPs, use cases and patterns, producing and maintaining standards, setting up PoCs, adoption of new products into the bank (Informatica EDC, Informatica DEI, Neo4j, Informatica TDM), 3rd line technical expertise for support teams, implementing automation where possible, introducing more efficient ways for deployment. He is the technology product owner for Informatica at NatWest. The role involves vendor and stakeholder engagement and aligning to bank data strategic roadmap. Robin managed a team of 3 platform engineers.

Informesh LtdInformatica Upgrade Migration Consultant - RBS

Jun. 2017 - Dec. 2017Edinburgh, United KingdomRobin is technical lead of a bank wide upgrade programme for 40 applications that are using Informatica 9.1 to migrate and upgrade their platforms to Informatica 10.2. He has been involved in planning, design and implementation as well as stakeholder engagement for each of those applications and their respective business franchises.

Informesh LtdInformatica SME - Informatica Projects - RBS

Sep. 2013 - Jun. 2017Edinburgh, United KingdomRobin is an Informatica SME at RBS, currently providing a number of services including: Informatica infrastructure design & consultation, administration, informatica consultancy services for multiple bank projects at various stages of their lifecycle, Informatica version upgrade and migration, environment management, technical assistance for complex technical issues with Informatica products at infrastructure and application level and any other adhoc requests for consultancy. He works in a team that runs one of the largest Informatica Powercenter infrastructures in Europe. Robin advises on best practices and bank standards in all of these areas. He assists other Informatica consultants in the team who provide technical support for Informatica products and is personally requested for technical input during production incidents where the support team are not able to assist further. The main technologies exposed to at various levels during this assignment are as follows: Informatica Administator, Informatica Domain versions 9.1, 9.6.1, 10.1 on many flavours of Unix, Powercenter, Data Quality IDQ, Metadata Manager, Kerberos enabled domains.

Informesh LtdInformatica Consultant - FiRST - RBS

Apr. 2013 - Sep. 2013Edinburgh, United KingdomRobin was working onsite with an international bank in Edinburgh (RBS) assisting a project with data sanitisation (masking) of production data using Informatica Powercenter 9.1. Data Profiling using Informatica Data Quality IDQ 9.1 was also required. Some UNIX scripting was required to improve the existing code release and deployment process.

Agile Solutions, UKInformatica Consultant (Developer)

Nov. 2012 - Apr. 2013GlasgowRobin was working for a shipping client in Glasgow as part of a team delivering a single model data source solution. This is being delivered using Agile methodologies that deliver iterations bimonthly. The main technologies in use include Informatica Powercenter 9.1, Oracle, SVN.

Agile Solutions, UKInformatica Bank Project and Infrastructure Support (Consultant)

Nov. 2010 - Oct. 2012Edinburgh, United KingdomRobin was onsite with an international bank in Edinburgh providing Informatica administration and infrastructure support for several bank projects during their lifecycle from proof of concept through to go live. He was involved with assisting multiple bank project teams with their problems and advice on best practices, bank standards for Informatica and related technologies. Also, Informatica server and services installation and configuration, hotfix installations, project setup on shared HUB domain concept and Informatica technology adoption. He was also involved with project resource micro management with project managers as well as coordination of planned service outages. The main technologies used or exposed to at various levels were Informatica Administator, Informatica Server (8.6.1, 9.x on Solaris, AIX and Redhat Linux), Powercenter, Powerexchange, Data Quality (Analyst), Metadata Manager, ILM, Data Exchange.

LogicaInformatica ETL Developer

Jun. 2009 - Nov. 2010Glasgow, United KingdomRobin worked closely with a client's stakeholders as part of a change development and support team and he was responsible for the design, development & testing of a phase of change requests for the client’s data quality management system (ETL). He also investigated and resolved defects with current applications. Main technologies used included Informatica PowerCenter 8.x, RDBMS (Oracle PLSQL, SQL, data analysis), batch scheduling and UNIX shell scripting.

LogicaTIBCO Middleware Developer

Jun. 2009 - Nov. 2009Glasgow, United KingdomRobin was responsible for developing & testing a middleware solution on client site for utility company in Glasgow. He was responsible for modification of existing middleware and development and testing of new middleware solutions. Main technologies being used included RDBMS (Oracle SQL), TIBCO Businessworks, TIBCO Administrator, XML, TIBCO RV messaging services and SOAP web services.

LogicaApplication Systems Analyst and Developer

Feb. 2008 - May. 2009Aberdeen, United KingdomRobin worked within a large support team for an international oil & gas client in Aberdeen. He was responsible for supporting the client’s bespoke hydrocarbon accounting systems. Support was provided to ITIL standards and included change requests, defect resolution, assist desk calls from client, exceeding SLA targets, gathering requirements, analysis of systems and testing. Main technologies used included various RDBMS tools (TOAD) for Oracle, SQL, PLSQL, C#, Oracle Forms (6i & 10g), Oracle Forms migration - 6i to 10g, OAS, Excel VBA, MS Access, UNIX shell scripting.

LogicaTIBCO Middleware Developer

Sep. 2007 - Feb. 2008Glasgow, United KingdomRobin was responsible for developing a new middleware solution on client site for utility company in Glasgow. He was involved with the development of new middleware solutions working with TIBCO Businessworks, RDBMS (Oracle based, SQL) and communication with an Openlink Endur application setup.

Hewlett-PackardSystems Integration Engineer

Jun. 2005 - Aug. 2006Robin worked in a personalised services team which provided customised hardware solutions on a range of HP products. He was responsible for integration testing and quality assurance for a large number of client solutions. Robin later developed a small web application using Perl to help factory workers record barcodes for rackmount server units.

Cumbernauld Computer CentreIT Technician and Sales

Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2005During Robin's time with the company he was involved in many aspects of the business. These included computer and component sales to the public and local businesses, technical assistance on a range of computer hardware and software issues with a vast range of computer and laptop brands, technical repairs to operating systems, software and hardware and several sales and marketing campaigns including promotional emails and sales materials. He designed promotional flyers, posters and displays using a number of graphics tools and was responsible for updating the businesses website with latest prices for computers, laptops and components.

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