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I’m Stephen Herron, a Lead Data Platform Consultant and founder of Pipeline Dynamics Ltd, with 15+ years’ experience building high-performance data solutions across insurance, energy, telecoms, and housing. I specialise in Modern Data Stack transformations, helping teams move from legacy bottlenecks to responsive, automated cloud-native pipelines. I lead cloud engineering delivery with an Agile mindset, and I’m especially focused on Snowflake, dbt, and AWS (including Terraform-based infrastructure as code). In recent roles, I’ve designed scalable data marts, automated ingestion for large numbers of source tables, and improved reporting performance dramatically—while also coaching teams on dbt standards, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.…I’m Stephen Herron, a Lead Data Platform Consultant and founder of Pipeline Dynamics Ltd, with 15+ years’ experience building high-performance data solutions across insurance, energy, telecoms, and housing. I specialise in Modern Data Stack transformations, helping teams move from legacy bottlenecks to responsive, automated cloud-native pipelines. I lead cloud engineering delivery with an Agile mindset, and I’m especially focused on Snowflake, dbt, and AWS (including Terraform-based infrastructure as code). In recent roles, I’ve designed scalable data marts, automated ingestion for large numbers of source tables, and improved reporting performance dramatically—while also coaching teams on dbt standards, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.

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I’m Stephen Herron, a Lead Data Platform Consultant and founder of Pipeline Dynamics Ltd, with 15+ years’ experience building high-performance data solutions across insurance, energy, telecoms, and housing. I specialise in Modern Data Stack transformations, helping teams move from legacy bottlenecks to responsive, automated cloud-native pipelines. I lead cloud engineering delivery with an Agile mindset, and I’m especially focused on Snowflake, dbt, and AWS (including Terraform-based infrastructure as code). In recent roles, I’ve designed scalable data marts, automated ingestion for large numbers of source tables, and improved reporting performance dramatically—while also coaching teams on dbt standards, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.…I’m Stephen Herron, a Lead Data Platform Consultant and founder of Pipeline Dynamics Ltd, with 15+ years’ experience building high-performance data solutions across insurance, energy, telecoms, and housing. I specialise in Modern Data Stack transformations, helping teams move from legacy bottlenecks to responsive, automated cloud-native pipelines. I lead cloud engineering delivery with an Agile mindset, and I’m especially focused on Snowflake, dbt, and AWS (including Terraform-based infrastructure as code). In recent roles, I’ve designed scalable data marts, automated ingestion for large numbers of source tables, and improved reporting performance dramatically—while also coaching teams on dbt standards, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.

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I’m Stephen Herron, a Lead Data Platform Consultant and founder of Pipeline Dynamics Ltd, with 15+ years’ experience building high-performance data solutions across insurance, energy, telecoms, and housing. I specialise in Modern Data Stack transformations, helping teams move from legacy bottlenecks to responsive, automated cloud-native pipelines.

I lead cloud engineering delivery with an Agile mindset, and I’m especially focused on Snowflake, dbt, and AWS (including Terraform-based infrastructure as code). In recent roles, I’ve designed scalable data marts, automated ingestion for large numbers of source tables, and improved reporting performance dramatically—while also coaching teams on dbt standards, testing, documentation, and operational excellence.

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Lead Data Engineer at Convex

April 1, 2021 - June 30, 2021

Architected a scalable Finance Data Mart in Snowflake to provide a single version of truth for global reporting. Reduced regulatory reporting cycles from days to minutes through a high-performance Snowflake implementation. Built a metadata-driven ingestion framework using Python and Prefect to automate delivery of 100+ source tables into the Bronze layer, and established dbt modelling standards, testing protocols, and coaching practices for team delivery, including documentation and lineage discoverability.

Lead Data Platform Consultant | Director at Pipeline Dynamics Ltd

March 1, 2021 - June 30, 2026

Fractional lead data engineering and architectural advisory focused on modernising legacy data estates. I help organisations design automated, cloud-native pipelines and accelerate time-to-value using Terraform and AWS to create repeatable “one-click” deployment environments. I’ve designed and maintained Snowflake infrastructure including databases, warehouses, external integrations, and RBAC across multi-environment analytics workloads.

Consultant Data Engineer at BJSS

June 1, 2018 - April 30, 2021

Delivered immediate performance benefits for clients undergoing cloud migrations from Oracle on-premise systems by applying Azure, Databricks, and Delta Lake patterns to improve throughput and reliability in the migrated data platforms.

Senior Data Engineer at Shell Energy

January 1, 2005 - April 30, 2018

Improved nightly processing by 3–5 hours by migrating to change data capture (CDC) pipelines. Designed AWS cloud migration architecture and implemented Snowflake and dbt capabilities to support ambitious growth plans.