Example: Balanced approach

Here is an example illustrating the delicate balance achieved of offense and defense in my own capacity as a CDAIO. In a previous role, I spearheaded the modernization of our data strategy, data management processes, data platforms and services while concurrently enhancing the quality, reliability, and trust of the data housed within these platforms and mitigating data risks.

One notable project involved the migration of product logs and instrumentation from an expensive and limited on-premises Hadoop instance to a more flexible, scalable, and innovative cloud-based infrastructure. Rather than a simple lift-and-shift approach, we divided the initiative into three parallel tracks:

• People and processes: Understanding existing consumers/producers and their data use cases to identify opportunities to improve the data itself. This touched every organization in the company and included use cases like product debugging, customer security incident response...