werk 08 · data engineering and governance

Data.

Data strategy, platforms and governance — the estate that makes a decision defensible, and the master data that keeps an order promise honest across channels.

FamilyRunCarried byAdvisoryCarried byInterimProven lines5 / 9Detailed mandates6SectorsFinance & Insurance, Retail & Luxury

Werk 08 — who carries it

arms and mandates

Data work earns its place when a number moves. This werk covers the strategy, the platform, the governance and the master data that a commercial promise depends on.

The offer

what is bought, and in what shape

A defensible data estate: one platform, one quality contract, one governed path from raw source to a number an executive committee can act on.

Data strategy and target platform

Use-case-led strategy, target architecture on a cloud warehouse or lakehouse, and the build sequence that gets there without a big bang.

Governance, catalogue and lineage

Ownership model, catalogue, glossary and end-to-end lineage so every figure can be traced back to its source.

Master data and data quality

Golden records for customer, product and supplier, plus quality contracts and observability that fail a pipeline before it reaches a decision.

Analytics and data products

Modelled layers, BI that people actually use, and data products with an owner, an SLA and a consumer.

Data diagnostic4 to 8 weeks

Estate assessment, target platform, governance model, roadmap.

AdvisoryFractional CDO counsel

Platform arbitration, governance chaired, team structure designed.

Interim seat6 to 18 months, Chief Data & AI Officer

The estate built, governed and handed over running.

SnowflakeDataikuSodaNeo4jdbtData meshData contracts

State of the proof

counted from the ledger below
9sub-capabilities
5proven · a published case carries a sourced figure
1held · carried by a named operator, no case published
3declared · in scope, no published proof today

Experiences that prove it

6 detailed mandates

Sub-capabilities and evidence

9 lines, each with its state
Data platformprovenAXABNP Paribas — FLOA
Governance and cataloguingprovenAdeoBNP Paribas — FLOA
Master data and data qualityprovenChantelle
BI and analyticsheldData strategy carried at executive-committee level at Celio.
Data engineering and ingestionprovenAXABNP Paribas — FLOA
Analytics engineeringdeclared
Streaming and real timedeclared
Data products and meshdeclared

Publishable figures

named, sourced, attributable
124 to 15Days · supplier referencing lead timeErwan Deschamps · CDIO Retail, Supply Chain & Finance, Adeo
+7,000Suppliers onboarded · NPS +50Erwan Deschamps · CDIO Central Purchasing & Stores, Adeo
85 to 98%OTIF through order and stock orchestrationErwan Deschamps · VP E-commerce, Retail & Technology, Chantelle

Questions

answered, in the open
What does a data mandate deliver first?
Usually governance, not a platform. At Adeo the supplier and referencing data model was rebuilt to run at marketplace scale, and that — not a new warehouse — is what cut referencing lead time from 124 days to 15 and let 7,000 suppliers on.
Is master data a data problem or a supply chain problem?
Both, which is why it sits here. At Chantelle, order orchestration and stock allocation were re-engineered across every sales channel, and on-time-in-full delivery moved from 85% to 98%. The data model was the mechanism; the promise to the customer was the outcome.
How does data connect to the AI werk?
It precedes it. A model on an ungoverned estate produces confident output from unverified input, which launders a data problem into a decision. AI mandates therefore start on the platform and the lineage — the group big-data estate at AXA was industrialized before the products that ran on it were built.
What is declared rather than proven?
Analytics engineering, streaming and data mesh. They are in scope and no published case carries them, so they are listed as declared. The proven ground is strategy, platform, governance and master data.

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