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Steve Riffe
Executive Profile · Highlights
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Steve Riffe .

Analytics Delivery Leader · Solutions Architect · Product Strategist

Pacific Time Zone (Remote) · linkedin.com/in/steveriffe · github.com/steveriffe
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Executive Overview

Hands-on Analytics Delivery Leader, Solutions Architect, and Product Strategist with 10+ years bridging executive strategy and complex technical execution. Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary teams, architecting modern data stacks (Snowflake, BigQuery, Sigma, Tableau), and directing the deployment of over 90 analytics products at Workforce Benefits Division (WBD) in the last two years alone, serving enterprise insurance, benefits, and consulting organizations.

Pioneer in adopting agentic AI workflows and modern analytics engineering to drive rapid product delivery and scalable cloud architecture across executive, actuarial, and operational domains. Applies an architectural systems mindset (Data Urbanism) and flight-deck operational discipline to ensure enterprise solutions achieve sustained user adoption and quantifiable ROI.

10+ Years
Enterprise Delivery
90+ Products
Deployed at WBD ('24-'26)
Zero Downtime
Cloud Data Migrations
150+ Developers
CoE Community Scaled
Core Technical & Architectural Proficiencies
Production-Proven
MODERN DATA CLOUD
  • • Snowflake Data Cloud
  • • Google BigQuery
  • • AWS Redshift & S3
  • • Dimensional Data Modeling
  • • Star Schema & SQL Marts
ENTERPRISE BI & UX
  • • Sigma Computing
  • • Tableau Desktop & Server
  • • Figma Prototyping
  • • Power BI
  • • Streamlit Applications
DELIVERY & GOVERNANCE
  • • Center of Enablement (CoE)
  • • Agile / SAFe / PI Planning
  • • Product Lifecycle Strategy
  • • Data Governance & Quality
  • • Executive Stakeholder Alignment
AGENTIC AI & AUTOMATION
  • • VS Code AI Agent Harnesses
  • • Agentic AI Workflows
  • • Snowflake Cortex
  • • Google Cloud Run Serverless
  • • Python / Docker Containers
Professional Leadership Timeline

Lead Data Visualization Engineer

Jan 2024 – Present
Pacific Life · Workforce Benefits (WBD)

Direct product strategy and technical execution for the startup Workforce Benefits platform, owning the roadmap and user adoption for over 90 analytics products deployed in the last two years alone across Executive, Underwriting, Actuarial, and Sales teams.

▶ Actuarial & Underwriting Risk Modeling: Architected mission-critical loss ratio, claims performance tracking, and pricing strategy analytics in Snowflake and Tableau, giving underwriters and actuaries real-time visibility into portfolio margin risk.
▶ Interactive Commentary & Reporting Workflows: Engineered embedded operational commentary systems directly within core analytics products, bridging quantitative KPI reporting with qualitative stakeholder context for executive leadership.

Data Visualization Engineer & CoE Lead

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Pacific Life · CMD Advanced Analytics

Orchestrated end-to-end analytics delivery while founding and scaling Pacific Life's Center of Enablement (PL COVE) across 150+ analytics developers.

▶ Enterprise Center of Enablement (PL COVE): Founded and scaled Pacific Life's Center of Enablement (PL COVE), building a thriving internal community of 150+ analytics developers. Created standardized style guides, governed dashboard templates, and delivered regular training cohorts, driving measurable improvements in report consistency and performance across business units.
▶ Redshift to Snowflake Migration: Migrated foundational reporting infrastructure from legacy AWS Redshift into Snowflake with zero reporting downtime.

Data & Analytics Consultant

May 2019 – Jan 2021
Slalom Consulting · Orange County

Delivered strategic cloud warehousing (Snowflake), spatial drive-time modeling (Alteryx & Google Maps API), and Tableau BI architectures for Fortune 500 financial and commercial real estate clients. Led the Orange County office hackathon team to 2nd place firm-wide for the satellite-driven wildfire path prediction project.

Strategic Project Coordinator

Oct 2013 – Jan 2018
AECOM · London Infrastructure

Directed procurement spend and supplier risk analytics across major European infrastructure initiatives, achieving a 25% reduction in Architectural Subconsultant Spending.

Academic Background
Graduate Certificate in Statistics
Birkbeck College, University of London (2010)

Rigorous quantitative grounding in probability distributions, multivariate regression, hypothesis testing, and statistical computing.

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Double Major
Community, Public Affairs & Policy Studies; Political Science
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2003)

Foundational training in institutional policy analysis, public stakeholder frameworks, and systemic governance.

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