Navin Harilal Email & Phone Number

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Lead the data strategy to enable insightful data driven decisions to deliver improved performance• Align the technical landscape to global standard to governance requirements• Drive digital transformation (Analytics tools/ CRM/ Cloud based Database)• Define & lead data integration• Design Master Data Management processes to support data integrity• Lead and manage external technical resources and data vendors against budgets, SLAs and KPIs• Wing to wing co-ordination… Show more • Lead the data strategy to enable insightful data driven decisions to deliver improved performance• Align the technical landscape to global standard to governance requirements• Drive digital transformation (Analytics tools/ CRM/ Cloud based Database)• Define & lead data integration• Design Master Data Management processes to support data integrity• Lead and manage external technical resources and data vendors against budgets, SLAs and KPIs• Wing to wing co-ordination and leadership of local and global resources contributing to the overall data strategy, strengthened by deep technical understanding• Bridge the gap between Business and IT to enable seamless & insightful data driven decisions• Drive process simplification and automation. Show less

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Built and led the local data team through a global digital transformation.• Partnered with global/ local technical and leadership teams to facilitate the implementation of numerous global analytics solutions, becoming the local SME• Owned reporting integration and delivery of digital transformation KPIs• Navigated a cross functional team through the highly complex technical environment within Unilever to implement thorough technical validation processes, addressing gaps and… Show more • Built and led the local data team through a global digital transformation.• Partnered with global/ local technical and leadership teams to facilitate the implementation of numerous global analytics solutions, becoming the local SME• Owned reporting integration and delivery of digital transformation KPIs• Navigated a cross functional team through the highly complex technical environment within Unilever to implement thorough technical validation processes, addressing gaps and threats to data accuracy Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Unilever: Data & Analytics Lead: iOPS South AfricaStandard Bank: Data Migration SME (5.5 years)

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Consulted to a Tier 1 bank in various capacities all in the Data Migration space. He was a data migration controller for the SAP core banking transformation programme. He also performed Impact analysis on data and system interfaces as a result of the planned SAP implementation.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Worked on a SAP data migration project as a Senior Migration Analyst for an asset leasing company. Developed mapping specifications and ETL code. Initiated data cleansing activities. Performed data loads into SAP

Johannesburg

He then joined an IT consulting company on a data migration project as Senior Migration Analyst in the banking sector where he facilitated mapping workshops to produce mapping specifications, performed data profiling and initiated and tracked data cleansing activities

Durban

Navin was again head-hunted to re-join the data migration project for the same municipality. As the Senior Technical Lead he developed and implemented data migration and test strategies, was Team Lead for the ETL developers / Testers / BA’s, performed data and impact analysis, developed mapping specifications

Johannesburg

Moved to an IT consulting company as a Business Intelligence Consultant, where he provided technical data warehousing and ETL support in the mining industry

Durban

Navin was then head-hunted, due to his experience in the DataStage ETL tool, to work as a data migration specialist on a large data migration project for a South African municipality. He performed multiple roles on the project including team lead to the ETL developers, Data Analyst/Profiler, ETL Mapping Specifications Analyst

London, Uk

Joined a large IT consulting company based in London as an Analyst in the Business Intelligence team. He worked on a project for a large online store Argos in Milton Keynes (UK) in the integration team, developing mapping specifications for the ETL’s from various source systems to a common reporting database model

Johannesburg

Navin started his career as a consultant for a Business Intelligence company that did work for many of the top JSE companies. It is here that he started working with data and gained experience with ETL tools and SQL in various environments and industries including Mining, Financial, and Automotive. In this role Navin was exposed to BI cube & report building, data warehousing, technical support and providing BI training

Bcomm Honours, Information Systems & Technology

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science & Information Technology