James Dzidek, PhD

I'm focused on data platform architecture and pipeline orchestration at enterprise scale.

My background spans two decades across consulting, enterprise architecture, and data engineering. I spent nearly five years as a Digital Architect and Advisor at Microsoft Consulting Services, driving cloud transformations for some of Canada's largest organisations across financial services, manufacturing, and retail. Before that, I served as Lead Data Architect at the Ontario Cannabis Store, where I built their data analytics platform from the ground up on Azure. Earlier in my career I worked as an Enterprise Architect at DNB, Norway's largest financial institution, and as a consultant at IBM.

I hold a PhD in Empirical Software Engineering from the University of Oslo, with my main research published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the field's most prestigious journal.

Today my work centers on Dagster and Databricks implementations inside large enterprises, most recently with a global consumer goods company, running on Kubernetes with Unity Catalog and medallion architectures. Based in the EU, I'm available for engagements across Europe on data modernization, ETL/ELT pipelines, and AI/ML platform foundations.

If something here resonates with a problem you're working through, I'd be glad to talk. Get in touch.