S2 - Episode #4: Jorrit Enzio Posor - Tech Lead - FINN
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About Jorrit:
Jorrit Enzio Posor is a seasoned technology professional, who currently works as the Tech Lead for the centralized data team at FINN, a fast-growing car subscription company. With his deep-seated passion for utilizing data to drive business growth, he leads a team responsible for defining and maintaining the tooling necessary for data analysts and other data teams to effectively access the data warehouse and gather key performance indicators, reports, and insights. Jorrit also has a deep understanding of data management and a commitment to excellence. He is poised to drive Safin's continued success through innovative and effective data solutions.
Synopsis:
In this episode of The Technology Leadership Podcast, Jorrit discusses the Data Mesh strategy that brings together both the technical and organisational components of data management. He discusses the bottlenecks caused by traditional centralised data team structures and explains how a Data Mesh approach solves this using additional decentralised teams assigned to each department. The centralised data team builds a platform for the decentralised teams to use and focuses on bringing engineering knowledge and capabilities closer to each department. Jorrit also explains using this structure for data analytics and management before getting into the business benefits of it.
Key Takeaways:
Learn about the Data Mesh concept, which is about aligning the technical and organisational components of data teams
Understand more about when a centralised data team become a bottleneck and how you can overcome the challenge using centralised infrastructure and decentralised teams
Get more insight into how central data teams can provide support to additional teams to support faster execution and delivery of insights
Hear more about using a combination tools including Fivetran, Google BigQuery, and DBT to manage data from multiple sources
Find out about the importance of a balance between centralised and decentralised skills and knowledge in building a data platform
Listen to discussion on the business benefit of using a decentralised data teams, not only to avoid bottlenecks in shipping but also in having data that accurately reflects changes in the business
Learn about determining whether a Data Mesh is the right strategy by understanding the trade-offs involved, evaluating your current problems and future growth plans
Episode Outline:
[00:37] Meet Jorrit
[01:48] How to scale a decentralised organisation
[03:12] How Data Mesh impacts data and other business teams
[07:03] The benefits of decentralised data teams in business
[08:55] How to implement decentralised data teams in your company and the bottlenecks surrounding centralised data teams
[16:37] How Jorrit implemented decentralised data teams in his company
[24:31] The things Jorrit could have told himself a year ago that would have helped him be more successful
[27:32] How a Technical Lead can communicate the benefits of a decentralised data team in his company
[30:18] One piece of advice Jorrit would like to offer
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