Tom B.

Experienced Software Engineer at NatWest

United Kingdom

About

Experienced Data and Analytics Professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Banking and Insurance industries. Vast experience of various Data Platforms including SAS in my early to mid career, ThoughtSpot, Teradata, AWS and Snowflake in my most recent career I have been a SAS administrator at Swinton Insurance and NatWest which has encompassed much on-site application progression and user engagement, in the ThoughtSpot application team I have been trusted specialist for the platform and its data sources. Recently I have progressed into the finops operations at the Bank, bringing my platform knowledge and colleagues engagement to enable the adding of value to project. I have worked in the Agile methodology for many years at both Swinton and Natwest and I would count myself as a specialist in the application of Agile on projects. Skilled in: Data Modelling and Preparation ThoughtSpot Snowflake SAS Platform Administration SAS Toolset ETL development using SAS DI Studio SAS Grid SAS Visual Analytics SAS Audit MI SQL Server Teradata Hadoop Tableau Gitlab Bastion Linux AGILE Project Management to Delivery.

Experience

  • NatWest Group (8 yrs 11 mos)
    • Software Engineer
      Nov 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    • Financial Crime Officer (8 month Secondment)
      Mar 2025 - Nov 2025 · 9 mos

    • Software Engineer
      Jan 2024 - Mar 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

      As part of NatWest Group's flagship data programme, I developed management-level Tableau dashboards, utilising data from Snowflake, that were instrumental in visualising the impact of our data systems simplification efforts. By tracking legacy platform reduction and modern tool adoption, these dashboards provided clear insights into cost savings and improvements in delivery efficiency, directly contributing to the program's success.

  • Swinton Insurance (5 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior SAS Suport Analyst and Platform Administrator
      Jul 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      SAS Certified Platform Administrator. Administering and monitoring all SAS 9.4 applications, Visual Analytics and supporting SAS users at Swinton. -Project Managed our environment modernisation project moving a proportion of our user licensing from a client model to a server model. -Managed Swinton's migration from SAS 9.3 to SAS 9.4 in 2015. -ETL creation and management using Data Integration Studio - Cross OS platform (Windows Server / Red Hat Linux) - proficient in fault finding and Shell scripting on both platforms. - SAS Environment Manager - monitoring and alerting to proactively aim to ensure excellent performance levels and to improve resilience. SAS software applications include -Management Console, -Enterprise Guide, -Customer Intelligence Studio 6.4, -Data Integration Studio, -Enterprise Miner, -Visual Analytics, -Environment Manager. Also involved in development using SQL Server - SS represents around 80% of Swinton' SAS source data.

    • SAS Support Analyst and Platform Administrator
      May 2014 - Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

      SAS Certified Platform Administrator. Administering all SAS 9.3 software and Users within Swinton. SAS software applications include Management Console, Enterprise Guide, BASE SAS (Foundation), Customer Intelligence Studio, Data Integration Studio, Enterprise Miner, Information Map Studio, Information Portal and BI Dashboards. Also involved in development working with SQL

    • Junior SAS Support Analyst and Platform Administrator
      Apr 2012 - May 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      SAS Certified Platform Administrator. Administering all SAS 9.3 software and Users within Swinton. SAS software applications include Management Console, Enterprise Guide, BASE SAS (Foundation), Customer Intelligence Studio, Data Integration Studio, Enterprise Miner, Information Map Studio, Information Portal and BI Dashboards. Also involved in development working with SQL

  • ICT Site Services Analyst at Kerry Group
    Oct 2010 - Apr 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Youth Development Worker at Stoke-on-Trent City Council
    Feb 2009 - Oct 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Web Development Worker at Stoke-on-Trent City Council
    Mar 2008 - Jun 2008 · 4 mos