Alex John Bush

Employment History

• MAS Medical Assurance Society From September 2024 to now

  • Solutions Architect
• Professional Services, Qrious Limited (NZ) From November 2022 to September 2024

  Led delivery of many modern data platforms and data products across a range of technologies and government and private sector clients. Involved with significant amount of pre-sales activities, from solution architecture design, to project scoping, costing and proposal writing. Managed a team of data consultants, from junior to senior consultants. Drove automation and repeatable infrastructure-as-code initiatives to bring innovation to project delivery, ensure platform implementation consistency and capture reusable assets.

  • Principal Consultant

    Led the architecture design and platform delivery of Microsoft Fabric-based modern data platform for multiple large organisations. Led the architecture design and platform delivery of Azure Databricks for analyst workloads in a large NZ government organisation. Delivered multiple modern data platform implementations across Fivetran, Azure, Snowflake, Azure Databricks, Coalesce and DBT using Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Digital Lighthouse, KPMG New Zealand (NZ) From August 2019 to November 2022

  Led and delivered Data and Analytics projects for public and private sector clients. Drove internal innovation to increase delivery capability and technical maturity. Fostered a culture of learning and collaboration through mentoring.

  • Associate Director From April 2022 to November 2022

    Chapter Lead for Engineering. Led business development and engagement delivery, and identified and delivered strategic investments in technology and mentoring to ensure delivery capability and capacity. Managed relationships with senior client stakeholders to ensure effective delivery of complex engagements.

  • Senior Manager From April 2021 to March 2022

    Solution design and delivery of end-to-end analytics platforms for public-sector clients. Delivered zero-trust platform architectures of PaaS and IaaS infrastructure. Developed large-scale data processing pipelines in Apache Spark to support client data modelling.

  • Manager From August 2019 to March 2021

    Led client project delivery, from Azure Cloud architecture and infrastructure automation, to back-end application development and data reporting. Increased the technical maturity of the team, running workshops and designing best practices for delivery.

• Cox Automotive (UK) From November 2016 to August 2019

  Data Engineering team lead, supporting Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Science (DS) teams with data and platforms to enable effective business analytics. Enabled principle of self-service analytics and ETL development for BI and DS teams (summarised in a talk given at the Spark Summit 2019 (youtu.be/1WUIua-xjJA)).

  • Lead Data Engineer From April 2018 to August 2019

    Delivered and supported data-driven platforms, pipelines, and products across BI and DS teams. Performed zero-downtime platform migration from Cloudera (IaaS) to Azure Databricks (PaaS). Was a core contributor to Waimak, an open-source Apache Spark library (github.com/​CoxAutomotiveDataSolutions/​waimak).

  • Hadoop DevOps Engineer From November 2016 to March 2018

    Automated deployment of Cloudera platform, and migrated platform onto a secure platform (Kerberos, SSL, RBAC). Responsible for all automation of project and environment builds and deployment.

• Hortonworks (UK) From December 2015 to November 2016

  Professional services consultant providing Hadoop implementation, administration and developer services to banking-sector clients.

  • Senior Consultant
• British Gas (UK) From September 2013 to November 2015

  Developer and Platform Engineer delivering ETL pipeline development, and infrastructure and platform automation to support large on-premises Hadoop clusters.

  • Hadoop Platform Engineer From January 2015 to November 2015
  • Graduate Hadoop Software Developer From May 2014 to January 2015
  • Graduate SAP Developer From September 2013 to May 2014