Data Strategy · Data Governance · Data Management Services

Make your business more agile and data-driven

I help companies turn disparate data sets into actionable insights, optimize decision-making, create new revenue streams from data, and decrease the cost of data ownership — through a practical data strategy, working governance policies, and hands-on delivery.

Data strategy built around your business priorities Data governance policies, roles, and ownership that stick Data quality, metadata, and lineage you can trust One connected view across finance, sales, and operations Data products that open new revenue streams Lower cost of data ownership and less manual rework

English / Spanish: consulting and delivery for clients in Spain, Europe, North America, and remote teams. Estrategia de datos, gobierno de datos y gestión de datos para empresas.

Andrei Barannikov
Andrei Barannikov

Data Strategy Lead, DataArt
Valencia, Spain · Remote worldwide

Data Strategy Data Governance Data Management AI Readiness
13+ Years of experience
Weeks To first quick wins
EN · ES Bilingual delivery
13+ Years turning enterprise data into business outcomes
20+ Decision products delivered for executive and board-level decisions
Quick wins Delivered in the first weeks, alongside the long-term roadmap
Global Finance data strategy delivered end to end for a global organization

Business outcomes, not documents

Every engagement is measured against the same six outcomes. We agree which ones matter most for your business, then build the data strategy, governance, and delivery plan that gets you there.

A more agile, data-driven business

Teams stop waiting on manual reports and one-off requests. Governed, documented data becomes something people can use themselves, so the business reacts in days instead of quarters.

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Disparate data sets turned into actionable insights

Finance, sales, operations, and product data are mapped, reconciled, and connected into one trusted view that answers real business questions instead of raising new ones.

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Optimized decision-making

Agreed definitions, consistent KPIs, and reliable numbers give executives and teams one version of the truth, with lineage that shows exactly where each figure comes from.

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New revenue streams from data

Data products, sharper pricing and customer intelligence, and monetizable insights turn assets you already own into commercial opportunities.

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Lower cost of data ownership

Duplicated pipelines, overlapping reports, and unmanaged tooling get consolidated. Clear ownership and standards stop the rework and firefighting that quietly drain budgets.

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A data strategy and governance policies that work

A practical strategy, policies, decision rights, and an ownership model designed around how your organization actually works — adopted in daily practice, not filed away.

Data management and strategy services

Services can be combined into one programme or used individually, depending on where your organization is today and how quickly you need results.

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Data Strategy & Roadmap

A clear direction for data, tied to business priorities and backed by a plan you can fund and execute.

  • Current-state assessment and data maturity baseline
  • Target operating model and guiding principles
  • Quick wins plus a 12–24 month roadmap
  • Business case, success metrics, and investment narrative
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Data Governance & Policies

Governance designed as a working practice: policies, roles, decision rights, and accountable ownership.

  • Governance operating model, roles, and forums
  • Policies for ownership, access, retention, and privacy
  • Stewardship workflows and escalation paths
  • DAMA-aligned capability mapping and maturity targets
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Trusted, AI-Ready Data Foundations

The transparency and controls that make analytics, reporting, and AI use cases safe to rely on.

  • Data quality rules, validation, and monitoring
  • Metadata, business glossary, and KPI definitions
  • End-to-end lineage and source-to-target mapping
  • AI and automation readiness checks across sources
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Insights & Decision Support

Consolidate scattered sources into decision-ready insights for executives and operational teams.

  • Disparate sources connected into one reconciled view
  • Executive dashboards and board-level reporting
  • Decision products for finance, sales, and operations
  • Self-service enablement with clear guardrails
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Data Products & New Revenue Streams

Identify where your data can generate revenue, then build and launch the products that deliver it.

  • Monetizable data assets and use case discovery
  • Product vision, success metrics, and backlog
  • Delivery alongside your engineering and analytics teams
  • Adoption tracking and value measurement
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Cost of Data Ownership Reduction

Cut the hidden cost of running data: duplication, manual reconciliation, and unmanaged tooling.

  • Rationalize duplicated pipelines, reports, and tools
  • Reduce manual reconciliation and repeated rework
  • Prioritize spend by business value and risk
  • Sustainable ownership that keeps costs from creeping back

Ways to work together

Start small with a diagnostic, commission a full strategy and governance blueprint, or bring me in as an ongoing data strategy lead for your team.

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Data Maturity Assessment

Typically 2–4 weeks

A fast, focused diagnostic of where data is holding the business back and what to fix first.

  • Interviews and problem inventory across teams
  • Maturity baseline against DAMA capability areas
  • Prioritized gaps, risks, and quick wins
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Data Strategy & Governance Blueprint

Typically 6–10 weeks

The full picture: where you are, where you are going, how you will govern it, and what it is worth.

  • Data strategy tied to business priorities
  • Governance policies, ownership, and operating model
  • Roadmap, KPIs, and investment business case
Ongoing

Fractional Data Strategy Lead

Ongoing, part-time

Senior data leadership without a full-time hire — driving the roadmap and keeping delivery honest.

  • Hands-on delivery with your business and data teams
  • Governance rollout, adoption, and change support
  • Executive reporting and roadmap course correction

What this looks like in practice

Selected transformation work, focused on global finance data strategy, data quality, ownership, transparency, governance capability mapping, and trusted data for executive decisions.

Data Strategy

Global finance data strategy from scratch

The finance department of a global company had no data strategy — only scattered information about operational problems across teams and systems.

Result: Fragmented inputs became a clear strategy with quick wins and a long-term plan for data quality, ownership, transparency, and trusted data for executive management.
Governance

Operational pain turned into governance priorities

Disparate business and technical inputs were gathered and structured into governance capability areas, showing where quality, ownership, and transparency gaps mattered most.

Result: A shared language across teams and a structured basis for prioritising governance, quality, ownership, and roadmap investment.
Quick wins

Immediate improvements without losing the long game

A strategy path separated improvements that could land immediately from longer-term transformation, making the roadmap understandable for business, data, and executive stakeholders.

Result: A practical plan connecting urgent data quality and transparency fixes with long-term governance and data management capability building.
Decision-making

Board-level decisions on trusted numbers

Led integration of NetSuite as a financial source and extended board-level decision support on top of the wider finance data management direction.

Result: 20+ executive decision products supporting finance and board-level decision-making.

From first conversation to measurable value

Data work pays off when business priorities, ownership, governance, quality, and delivery are designed together. This is the sequence I use to get there without stalling the business.

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Start with the decisions, not the data

We define the decisions, risks, reporting needs, and AI or analytics ambitions the business wants to support, so every later step has a purpose you can point to.

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Map the disparate data and where it breaks

Needs and pain points are collected from business, finance, analytics, governance, and engineering teams, then organised into one coherent view of gaps, duplication, and dependencies.

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Design the strategy, policies, and ownership

Requirements are mapped across governance, quality, architecture, metadata, lineage, and ownership, then turned into a strategy, policies, standards, and accountable roles.

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Deliver quick wins alongside the roadmap

Improvements that can land in weeks run in parallel with the long-term plan, so stakeholders see value early and the programme keeps its mandate.

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Embed adoption and measure the value

I stay close to product, engineering, and analytics work on models, pipelines, documentation, and reporting, tracking adoption and cost so the strategy shows up in daily use.

Andrei Barannikov
Andrei Barannikov

Data Strategy Lead, DataArt
Valencia, Spain

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DataArt Data strategy, governance, and finance data transformation since 2018
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13+ Years Experience Data management, governance, product ownership, and strategy
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Specialist in Geophysics Voronezh State University, 2007–2012
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English · Russian · Spanish Advanced · Native · Working proficiency

Why clients bring me in

I work at the intersection of business strategy, governance, product thinking, and delivery. Companies bring me in when data is spread across systems and teams, reporting is contested, costs keep rising, and leadership needs numbers it can act on. My job is to turn that into a strategy people agree with and a plan the organization can actually execute.

My foundation is in requirements management, data modeling, and analytical problem-solving, which means strategy work does not stop at slides. I stay involved through governance rollout, data products, quality rules, documentation, and reporting until the change is visible in how teams work day to day.

Before DataArt, I spent nearly six years at OT-OIL leading delivery of planning and monitoring systems for major energy companies, including team leadership, client turnaround, and product replication across multiple sites.

Where I add most value

  • Data strategy for finance and enterprise functions
  • Governance, ownership, metadata, lineage, and quality
  • Stakeholder alignment and operating model design
  • AI-ready data foundations and change adoption

Methods & delivery context

DAMA-DMBOK Data Governance Metadata Management Data Quality Data Lineage Data Ownership AI Data Readiness Finance Data Strategy NetSuite Salesforce Canvas Agile Delivery Executive Reporting

I would love to hear from you

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