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Roberto Torres

Data Architect · BI & Analytics Leader

I lead data teams and design the platforms they run on.

15+ years at IBM, Cargill, Pfizer and HP. Today I am lead architect on a Customer 360 / MDM migration from Oracle CDH to Google Cloud. Before that I ran a ~45-person software and BI organization at Cargill. Completing an MSc in Data Science & AI at the University of Liverpool.

Based in San José, Costa Rica Open to relocation to Western Europe English C1 (IELTS 7.5) · Spanish native
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130M+customer records in the Customer 360 platform I architect
8 → 22direct reports grown at Cargill, with 0% attrition
$3Min savings found with Power BI analyses
7 h → 47 minELT runtime after redesigning the reporting architecture

Experience

Mar 2026 – now

Data Architect · IBM

  • Lead architect for an Oracle CDH to GCP migration of a Customer 360 / MDM platform across 25 countries; lead a 5-person architecture sub-team.
  • Mapped end-to-end lineage of all 5 integration flows and found the root causes of ETL load failures.
  • Manage data masking and role-based access protecting personal data in Customer 360.
  • Use GenAI (Claude) with a 4-person team for CDH model analysis, source-to-target mapping, SQL and Airflow/dbt code, and documentation.
Sep 2025 – Feb 2026

Independent Data & AI Consultant · ThruIQ

  • Built end-to-end data platforms on Snowflake, dbt and AWS with a Medallion architecture and CI/CD on GitHub Actions.
  • Built predictive models with Snowflake ML and Python.
Dec 2021 – Sep 2025

Senior Software & BI Manager · Cargill

  • Led 22 direct reports and ~23 contractors across LATAM and North America; delivered 20+ solutions with 94% client satisfaction.
  • Hired 14 people and promoted 8, with 0% attrition over 3 years and a 96% engagement score.
  • Built a Power BI alert for time-entry gaps that prevented finance-close issues and recovered ~$60K a year in billable revenue.
Feb 2020 – Dec 2021

Senior Lead, Data Analytics · Cargill

  • Cut release time from 16 hours to about 1 hour as part of the reporting redesign.
  • Replaced spreadsheet reporting with 45+ self-service Tableau dashboards.
  • Set governance, QA and modeling standards that cut monthly support tickets from 4+ to 1.
Jul 2017 – Jan 2020

Data Analytics Specialist · Pfizer

  • Tech lead and product co-lead of governed data platforms for quality, audit and compliance, traceable to financial reporting.
  • Moved Excel processes into Oracle with Alteryx and SQL: loads went from 3 days to 10 minutes.
  • Spotfire dashboards that cut manual reporting effort by ~42%.
Jun 2010 – Jun 2017

BI Specialist, Account Delivery Lead, Technology Consultant · HP / DXC

  • Led 25 developers supporting 400+ applications for an oil & gas client in Canada; SLA compliance went from 58% to 89% and client satisfaction from 74% to 91%.
  • Built an SAP solution that cut vendor receipt reconciliation from 3 days to 1 hour. It is still in use.

Projects

Cargill · cost analytics

Savings in device usage and contractor billing

Power BI analyses of warehouse device usage and contractor billing found $3M in savings, $1M of it from stopping over-reported contractor hours.

Power BI, SQL

HP · conservation

HP Earth Insights, with Conservation International

Backend engineer in the 12-person team that built a big data system forecasting whether endangered species populations are rising or falling. Press coverage

Personal project

Measles Analytics

WHO measles data loaded with AWS Lambda and S3 into Snowflake, modeled with dbt, with a Snowflake ML model for country-level outbreak predictions.

Code on GitHub
Personal project

Urban Crime Analytics

Chicago crime records loaded into Snowflake and modeled with dbt by crime type and police district, with Snowsight dashboards.

Code on GitHub

Skills

Data engineering

Legacy-to-cloud migration, ETL/ELT, CDC, source-to-target mapping, lineage, SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, Informatica, Pub/Sub, CI/CD

Modeling and architecture

Kimball dimensional models, Medallion architecture, data products, MDM (match & merge, deduplication), BigQuery, Snowflake

Leadership

Hiring and promotions, teams up to 22 direct reports plus contractors, stakeholder and vendor management, Agile/Scrum

Governance and quality

Data quality, Collibra, data masking, role-based access, governance standards

BI and analytics

Power BI, Tableau, Spotfire, self-service analytics, Snowflake ML and Python predictive models

Cloud and tooling

GCP, Snowflake, AWS, Azure storage, Git, Docker, Terraform (hands-on lab), GenAI assistants for mapping, code and documentation

Education

  • MSc Data Science & Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Liverpool · expected Aug 2027
  • MBA, FinanceInstituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica · 2012
  • BSc Computer EngineeringInstituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica · 2007
  • SnowPro Core CertificationSnowflake · 2026
  • Postgraduate Program in Data Science & Business AnalyticsUniversity of Texas at Austin · 2025
  • Organizational LeadershipHarvard Business School Online · 2023
  • Certified Scrum Master and Product OwnerScrum Inc. · 2023

Contact

rob.torres1@outlook.com
LinkedIn CV (PDF)