Mothi Raju
Summary
A strategic and delivery-focused data professional with strong experience managing enterprise data assets, governance frameworks, and large-scale transformation programmes in complex and regulated environments. Skilled at connecting strategy, operations, and governance to ensure data is treated as a valuable business asset.
Experienced in leading cross-functional stakeholders across business, technology, and product teams to deliver high-quality, well-governed, and compliant datasets that support analytics, insight generation, and product development. Brings a solid background in data migration, data lifecycle management, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance , gained in large, high-volume consumer organisations.
Known for a practical and structured approach, with strong analytical skills and a collaborative working style. Anticipates data needs, prioritises work based on business value, and ensures transparency, reliability, and trust in core data domains.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Data Migrations Lead
Virgin Media O2
Reading
2025.02 - 2025.12
- Led enterprise-scale data migration programmes supporting ~8 million customers, achieving a 98.14% success rate across production releases.
- Executed domain-level data strategy for migrations in alignment with organisational transformation goals and data governance standards.
- Served as the primary escalation point for data and migration issues, resolving complex data quality and integrity challenges.
- Owned stakeholder engagement across business, product, and technology teams, ensuring alignment on priorities, risks, and delivery milestones.
- Worked closely with solution architects and platform architects to validate data flows, target-state designs, and migration approaches.
- Designed and embedded governance controls to ensure data completeness, auditability, and regulatory compliance throughout migration cycles.
- Built and led structured triage and remediation processes to manage defects, risks, and operational readiness.
Data specialist
Virgin Media O2
Slough
2019.01 - 2023.11
- Collaborated with technology teams to implement scalable data transformation and replication solutions, improving data flow and availability across systems.
- Assisted in designing and implementing data governance and quality frameworks to enhance consistency and regulatory compliance across platforms.
- Contributed to defining data quality metrics, validation rules, and remediation processes for customer and transactional data domains.
- Supported domain-level data initiatives for migration, transformation, archival, and quality improvement programmes, enhancing data integrity and accessibility.
- Facilitated data discovery, profiling, and impact analysis to aid in anticipating downstream analytics and product data needs.
- Aided in establishing enterprise data modelling and mapping standards to enhance interoperability and reporting accuracy.
- Acted as a point of contact for data-related changes, translating business requirements into actionable delivery plans.
- Provided updates on data risks, priorities, and delivery status in governance forums, ensuring alignment and transparency in data management processes.
Business data analyst
Sky
London
2018.06 - 2018.11
- Produced a strategic research paper outlining opportunities to improve data-led decision-making and process efficiency.
- Analysed end-to-end data flows within the content supply chain domain to support operational optimisation and analytics.
- Identified data quality gaps and recommended remediation strategies to improve reporting reliability.
- Conducted industry research on scheduling tools, data-driven optimisation, and machine learning models.
Solution Designer & BI Analyst
O2 Telefonica
Slough
2013.03 - 2016.05
- Designed and governed data replication processes between enterprise data warehouse and CRM platforms.
- Defined and enforced data quality rules and mapping standards across customer master and BI domains.
- Supported master data management and BI operational lifecycle processes.
- Partnered with internal and external teams to deliver accurate, governed data integrations.
- Improved stability and reliability of operational and analytical datasets through quality controls and remediation planning.
DWH/BI Analyst
EE
Bristol
2010.09 - 2013.02
- Conducted performance tuning and monitored enterprise data systems to optimise functionality and reliability.
- Ensured continuity, stability, and service quality of reporting and analytics platforms.
- Managed incidents, changes, and impact assessments to maintain core data services and minimise disruptions.
- Led BI platform user migrations and ensured operational readiness for seamless transitions.
Data Warehouse Support Analyst
Orange
Bristol
2007.07 - 2010.08
- Provided Level 2 support for enterprise data warehouse and ETL platforms, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
- Managed production incidents, resolving complex data quality and availability issues to maintain service integrity.
- Supported change implementation and ensured service continuity for core data services, minimising disruptions.
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Mother Teresa Women's University
Coimbatore, IndiaSkills
- Data strategy execution & roadmap delivery
- Data domain ownership
- Business value prioritisation
- Product & analytics enablement
- Data governance frameworks
- Data quality metrics & controls
- Regulatory compliance (GDPR)
- Risk & issue management
- Master, transactional & reference data
- Data lifecycle management
Strategic Data Management
Data Governance & Compliance
Data Asset Delivery & Operations
- Migration, transformation & archival
- Operational performance oversight
- Senior stakeholder engagement
- Cross-functional delivery leadership
- Global domain alignment
- Transparent governance & reporting
- Governed dataset delivery
- Data discovery & profiling
- Insight enablement
- Innovation support
Stakeholder Leadership
Analytics Enablement
Certification
- Salesforce Certified Administrator
- Data Scientist Certification
Timeline
Data Migrations Lead
Virgin Media O2
2025.02 - 2025.12
Data specialist
Virgin Media O2
2019.01 - 2023.11
Business data analyst
Sky
2018.06 - 2018.11
Solution Designer & BI Analyst
O2 Telefonica
2013.03 - 2016.05
DWH/BI Analyst
EE
2010.09 - 2013.02
Data Warehouse Support Analyst
Orange
2007.07 - 2010.08
Master of Computer Applications -
Mother Teresa Women's University