Matt Gill
Summary
Strategic data and analytics engineering leader with 15 years of experience developing data capabilities that drive business growth. Skilled in defining enterprise data strategies and leading engineering teams to deliver scalable data ecosystems. Notable achievements include transforming global reporting at Red Hat for over 1000 users and establishing enterprise analytics at Ably while managing a £1 million technology budget.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Data Engineering Manager
Avis Budget Group
01.2023 - Current
- Provided strategic leadership for enterprise data engineering and analytics capabilities, enabling informed global commercial, operational and financial decision-making across modern enterprise data ecosystem.
- Partner with Finance, Technology and Operational leaders to shape enterprise data strategy and delivery priorities.
- Led multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, analytics engineering, data science and analytics, fostering collaboration to achieve project goals.
- Defined engineering standards for architecture, governance, Agile delivery, CI/CD and operational reliability, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering and modernisation initiatives that improve engineering productivity and platform resilience.
Head of Data Analytics
Ably
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Built Ably's enterprise data capability from the ground up, defining the enterprise data strategy and delivering a modern analytics ecosystem that established trusted reporting, self-service analytics and the foundation for future data products.
- Crafted enterprise data strategy to support organisational growth and drive data-driven decision-making.
- Delivered a modern Snowflake and dbt ecosystem supporting trusted metrics and executive reporting.
- Developed engineering standards and governance framework to enhance self-service analytics capabilities and ensure data integrity.
- Oversaw £1 million annual technology investment and nurtured strategic vendor relationships to optimise resource allocation.
Senior Manager, Global Data & Analytics (Progressed through multiple leadership roles)
Red Hat
01.2016 - 01.2021
- Led one of Red Hat's largest global finance and analytics transformation programmes, redefining how Sales and Finance planned, forecast and reported business performance across multiple international regions.
- Delivered globally governed analytics platform for over 1,000 business users, enhancing data accessibility and decision-making capabilities.
- Established consistent KPI definitions and governance frameworks, ensuring trusted executive reporting across global teams.
- Reduced financial planning cycle times by 70% through redesigned planning and reporting processes.
- Reduced enterprise reporting effort by 30% through automation and engineering standardisation.
Education
MSc - Data Science
University of Colorado Boulder
07-2026
MSc - Computing with Software Engineering
The Open University
BSc - Mathematics
University of Chester
Skills
- Data engineering and architecture
- Cloud platforms: AWS and Oracle
- Snowflake and Redshift
- PostgreSQL and SQL Server
- DBT and SQL
- Python programming
- Airflow orchestration
- Kafka messaging
- ETL/ELT processes
- Data warehousing strategies
- Data governance practices
- Data management techniques
- Quality assurance in data
- Metadata management systems
- Data modeling methodologies
- Fivetran integration solutions
- Semantic layer development
- Business intelligence tools: Power BI and Tableau
- Technical leadership skills
- Engineering leadership capabilities
- Platform architecture design principles
- CI/CD implementation strategies
Timeline
Senior Data Engineering Manager
Avis Budget Group
01.2023 - Current
Head of Data Analytics
Ably
01.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Manager, Global Data & Analytics (Progressed through multiple leadership roles)
Red Hat
01.2016 - 01.2021
MSc - Data Science
University of Colorado Boulder
MSc - Computing with Software Engineering
The Open University
BSc - Mathematics
University of Chester