I am a results-driven analytics professional with 13+ years of experience owning end-to-end data pipelines, dashboards, BI workflows, metric trees, and governance frameworks across cloud and on-prem platforms including Databricks and Azure. I excel at translating complex data into strategic business insights for product, marketing, and operations, and I thrive on delivering self-serve analytics that enable data-informed decision-making. I am a collaborative, hands-on leader who builds data-literate cultures through enablement, documentation, and stakeholder-ready reporting. My work emphasizes product-led growth analytics, funnel analysis, and experimentation frameworks that drive measurable outcomes and revenue growth.

Romal Subash Sabas

I am a results-driven analytics professional with 13+ years of experience owning end-to-end data pipelines, dashboards, BI workflows, metric trees, and governance frameworks across cloud and on-prem platforms including Databricks and Azure. I excel at translating complex data into strategic business insights for product, marketing, and operations, and I thrive on delivering self-serve analytics that enable data-informed decision-making. I am a collaborative, hands-on leader who builds data-literate cultures through enablement, documentation, and stakeholder-ready reporting. My work emphasizes product-led growth analytics, funnel analysis, and experimentation frameworks that drive measurable outcomes and revenue growth.

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I am a results-driven analytics professional with 13+ years of experience owning end-to-end data pipelines, dashboards, BI workflows, metric trees, and governance frameworks across cloud and on-prem platforms including Databricks and Azure. I excel at translating complex data into strategic business insights for product, marketing, and operations, and I thrive on delivering self-serve analytics that enable data-informed decision-making.

I am a collaborative, hands-on leader who builds data-literate cultures through enablement, documentation, and stakeholder-ready reporting. My work emphasizes product-led growth analytics, funnel analysis, and experimentation frameworks that drive measurable outcomes and revenue growth.

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Work Experience

ERP Data Research at Napier City Council
January 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025
Designed & implemented ETL pipelines and data quality standards aligned to ISO governance practices, improving MAGIQ ERP data quality by 90% and strengthening reliability. Collaborated with business users and IT to standardize data definitions and remediation processes, enabling trusted and reusable Council datasets.
Senior Consultant at Next Technology
October 1, 2022 - July 1, 2024
Orchestrated and automated database migration with monitoring, logging, and failure handling, ensuring resilient, observable systems using complex T-SQL & shell scripting, reducing data refresh cycles from 5 days to 4 hours with 90% improvement. Cut manual deployment time by 60% by implementing DataOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps. Established and documented data engineering standards, deployment processes, and runbooks, improving delivery consistency. Applied best-practice data modelling techniques (Kimball, Data Vault and Lakehouse patterns) in Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric platforms supporting batch and near-real-time data ingestion patterns.
Senior Software Engineer – Data Analytics at Eyepax
December 1, 2019 - September 1, 2022
Built robust analytics platforms and semantic data models for Finance & HR using AWS, Power BI cloud, Tableau, and SSAS, impacting increased executive engagement and insights by 80%. Designed and delivered HR dashboards tracking workforce, hiring, attrition, performance, engagement, cost, and compliance KPIs, enabling data-driven workforce planning and leadership decision-making. Mentored 6+ team members in data modelling, row level security, and stakeholder engagement.
Software Engineer – Data warehousing at CAMMS Risk Connect Asia -Pacific
January 1, 2018 - December 1, 2019
Advanced SQL development for SQL Data Mart; designed and governed enterprise data warehouses supporting multiple domains, improving auditability and data integrity. Delivered data migrations for large enterprise clients (SQL 2008 → 2016), improving performance and reliability.
Systems Analyst – Data Management & Reporting at London Stock Exchange Group – Business Services
October 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Authored runbooks, reconciliation frameworks, process documentation, and automated Informatica operations reducing manual effort and risk. Maintained warehousing procedures and Informatica workflows to guarantee compliance reporting across millions of daily deals.
Business Intelligence Engineer/ Data Analyst at Axienta Private Limited
December 1, 2015 - October 1, 2016
Collaborated with marketing to interpret trends and validate customer behavior, enabling a 25% higher conversion campaign. Created enterprise reporting and self-service visualizations using Tableau/Power BI cloud, increasing report security and stakeholder adoption by 80%. Engaged with senior management for requirements and translated them into BI solutions.
IT Specialist – Management Information Systems at Hutchison Telecommunications PLC
December 1, 2014 - December 1, 2015
Built productive relationships across business units and external vendors to deliver trusted management information, reducing ad-hoc reporting by 80%. Facilitated workshops to translate business problems into KPIs, dashboards, and analytics roadmaps; created reusable frameworks and runbooks for scalable delivery and knowledge sharing.
Database Engineer at Netstartsarter
April 1, 2013 - December 1, 2014
Implemented SQL validation checks, reconciliations, and refresh monitoring, improving data accuracy by 90% and faster close cycles. Automated data migration and ETL scripts to reduce loading time by 80% for Magento-based e-commerce sites.
Business Intelligence Engineer / Acting Team Lead at Data matrix Consultancy Services
March 1, 2010 - February 1, 2013
Led end-to-end data strategy and enterprise BI initiatives; designed semantic models (Kimball star schema) and medallion-type pipelines; delivered executive/ client dashboards (SSRS, Power BI) with improved RBAC and 90% faster report turnaround. Acted as team lead, coaching BI developers and establishing standards for data modelling, reporting, and governance.
ERP Data Researcher at Napier City Council, New Zealand
January 1, 2025 - July 1, 2025
Designed automated validation pipelines using SSIS and governance frameworks to support audit-ready reporting, improving data accuracy by 40% and enterprise data integrity by 90% through end-to-end ELT workflows and data privacy controls.
Senior Consultant - Data & DevOps at NEXT Technology
October 1, 2022 - July 1, 2024
Re-engineered the modern data stack, reducing data pipeline runtimes from 5 days to 4 hours (90% improvement). Established data platform governance and streamlined CI/CD for Power BI, accelerating data product deployments by 60%.
Senior Software Engineer - Data Analytics at Eyepax
December 1, 2019 - September 1, 2022
Eliminated 60% of manual reporting across Finance and HR by building scalable Power BI semantic models with enterprise-grade security and access controls. Developed product metric trees and growth experiments to deliver actionable insights for leadership.
Software Engineer - Data Warehousing at CAMMS Risk Connect Asia Pacific
January 1, 2018 - December 1, 2019
Improved enterprise data integrity by 90% by designing ETL/ELT pipelines across HR, Finance, Risk, and Projects, embedding data quality management into the data platform.
Systems Analyst - Data Management & Reporting at London Stock Exchange Group – Business Services
October 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Maintained 100% regulatory compliance across high-volume datasets by automating data pipelines and metric frameworks with rigorous data compliance processes; reduced support effort by 40% through improved data governance and production support for regulatory reporting.
Data Analyst at Axienta Private Limited
December 1, 2015 - October 1, 2016
Grew marketing conversion rates by 25% by building product analytics models in R that revealed actionable customer insights and supported growth experimentation in a SaaS environment.
Data Specialist - Management Information Systems at Hutchison Telecommunications PLC
December 1, 2014 - December 1, 2015
Boosted self-service analytics adoption by 80% by designing interactive self-serve dashboards defining KPI frameworks and facilitating data literacy enablement workshops across business teams.
Database Engineer at Netstarter
April 1, 2013 - December 1, 2014
Cut data pipeline runtimes by 80% by re-engineering the ingestion, transformation, and validation architecture to support a large-scale e-commerce platform migration with full data integrity.
Business Intelligence Lead at Datamatrix Consultancy Services
March 1, 2010 - February 1, 2013
Reduced reporting turnaround by 99% by owning end-to-end data governance, establishing metric trees and single source of truth, and delivering automated product analytics.

Education

Masters in Information Technology (with Internship) at Eastern Institute of Technology
January 11, 2030 - January 20, 2026
Masters in Information Management (with Thesis) at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
January 11, 2030 - January 20, 2026
Master of Information Technology at Eastern Institute of Technology, New Zealand
January 11, 2030 - March 26, 2026

Qualifications

Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate
January 11, 2030 - January 20, 2026
Microsoft Certified Azure Data Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - January 20, 2026
Snowflake Data Warehouse Essentials (Hands-on)
January 11, 2030 - January 20, 2026
Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate
January 11, 2030 - March 26, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - March 26, 2026
Snowflake Data Warehouse Essentials
January 11, 2030 - March 26, 2026

Industry Experience

Government, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment