Going From Data Engineer To Head Of Data - How To Run A Data Team Successfully
You join a 1000 person company as the head of data. What should you do?
I would invest a a lot of time up front to understand the business(especially if you haven't worked in the industry).
I was just talking to someone at the Snowflake Summit who told me they made the mistake of recently being put in charge of a data team and their first response was "Great, what tools can I use".
If you can't answer the following questions within the first month or two, you're probably going in the wrong direction.
What are the main drivers of the business?
What are the main pain points of the customers?
What does the business flow look like?
Who is our customer?
(What other questions would you add)
More than likely, if you're a Head Of Data, you've hopefully got the technical chops to excel in the role.
But if you don't have a strong understanding of the business, you'll either end up becoming a task taker who struggles to get out of ad-hoc requests or you'll build a bunch of fancy infrastructure that delivers nothing for the business.
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