DataIQ Future Leaders
DataIQ Future Leaders recognises individuals working in data and analytics who are on an upward career trajectory to become the next cohort of senior data leaders. Already leading teams and reporting to a CDO or CDAO, they are data professionals who are shaping the future of this industry.
Categories and selection criteria explained here.
DataIQ Future Leaders
DataIQ Future Leaders recognises individuals working in data and analytics who are on an upward career trajectory to become the next cohort of senior data leaders. Already leading teams and reporting to a CDO or CDAO, they are data professionals who are shaping the future of this industry.
Categories and selection criteria explained here.
Steven Henson-Tyers, head of data visualisation, Sainsbury’s
Describe your career to date
With 15 years’ experience of using technology to drive processes and decision making, I have built a career in democratising technology and empowering colleagues to drive data into the heart of decision making.
At ASOS, I worked in multiple functions of the business: building social media contact management applications, working on the start of their journey into big data as part of the customer insights teams and gaining my first look into how cloud computing could drive technology to provide data-led answers.
At Tesco, I worked within the clothing commercial function, looking at its reporting ecosystems and providing the applications and BI platform to best serve its needs. This was my first experience at enterprise-wide scale solutions to data democratisation.
I moved to Sainsbury’s in 2018 and was tasked with delivering data-based applications and reporting for finance in analytics. In 2020, I moved to the technology function in the applied data analytics team, focused on driving data-led decision making, single version of the truth BI platform and democratising the data for the whole business. I am currently heading up a 70-strong data visualisation team, building a culture of destination reporting through personalised role-based dashboarding, measuring the right thing at the right time.
Tell us about the data and analytics resources you are responsible for
I manage a team of over 70 data visualisers who are split over eight squads. We focus on maintaining a back catalogue of 2,000 reports that are accessed over one million times a week by 15,000 colleagues, as well as building new strategic role-based dashboards tailored around the role and process. We also focus on measuring the right business metric which drives action orientated products. We package this up by offering a “destination reporting” ecosystem, simplifying access and content.
As advocates behind a single semantic layer, we mature the ability for the business to explore the same data in new ways. We democratise data, making it accessible with a single version of truth to anyone irrespective of their technical skills.
Tell us about any ambitions you have in terms of becoming a data leader
I was an early adopter of technology and have always had the “hacker” mindset with the technology that is around me. Progressing my career has opened more opportunities to get the most out of technology to benefit my peers and, most importantly, our customers. When used correctly, data is a brilliant non-biased way of understanding complex problems and a main driver behind improving the customer journey and the efficiency of the business.
I want to continue to drive the use of technology and data for everyone, irrespective of their role, technical skill or experience. Delivering a strategy that creates step changes in the business with innovative concepts, improving processes and repositioning manual effort that’s put into maintaining legacy processes into effective decision making.
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