# Significance Research: Swisscom — Staff Data, Analytics & AI Engineer

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> Never convert company scale, industry trends or likely benefits into Dennis's personal impact.

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### SW-1: AWS Migration — Field Context

**The problem:** Legacy enterprise data warehouses (Teradata, Oracle) are expensive to scale, inflexible for modern analytics workloads, and difficult to integrate with ML pipelines. The industry-wide shift to cloud-native data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) is driven by cost, elasticity, and the rise of the data lakehouse pattern.

**Architecture context:** Enterprise migrations may involve rehosting, re-platforming or re-architecture. Use this only to explain the technical choices in a verified job-specific context; do not assert a universal standard.

**Why this matters:** Fulfillment pipelines are business-critical. No personal data-volume, cost-saving or speed-improvement metric is currently verified.

**Candidate-specific evidence:** Dennis used Iceberg, AWS Glue/Athena and CloudFormation while migrating pipelines in his owned domains. Do not claim he selected these technologies for Swisscom or introduced them company-wide unless separately verified.

**Field overview: Data Lakehouse Architecture (2024–2026)**
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### SW-2: Component Ownership at Scale — Field Context

**The evidence:** At Swisscom, Dennis's Component Owner role covers production operation, data quality, governance, incidents and on-call obligations for Fulfillment ETL pipelines. Describe those verified responsibilities directly; do not use a generic title-equivalence claim.

**Why this matters:** Swisscom's Fulfillment domain carries business-critical operational data. Avoid claiming a quantified customer or revenue effect without evidence.

**Candidate-specific value:** Dennis combines implementation with production accountability for his components. That is the defensible distinction; broader market-demand claims require fresh sourcing.

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### SW-3: Kubernetes for Data Applications — Field Context

**The problem:** Data pipelines have traditionally been deployed on bare metal or VMs, leading to environment inconsistency, difficult scaling, and slow deployments. The shift to Kubernetes for data workloads (not just web services) reflects the maturation of the data platform discipline.

**Industry context:** Kubernetes and CI/CD are recognizable production-delivery signals. Do not claim a regional or industry standard without current sourcing.

**Differentiation:** Swisscom's use of Kubernetes for Python data applications confirms production-grade container orchestration for data workloads — not just a dev/test environment.

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### Field Overview: Modern Data Engineering (2024–2026)

The data engineering discipline has undergone a significant shift in the past 3 years:
1. **From batch to streaming:** Kafka-based event-driven architectures have replaced many nightly batch processes
2. **From proprietary DWH to open lakehouse:** Dennis has direct experience moving owned-domain pipelines from Teradata/Oracle processing to S3 + Athena/Iceberg within a wider programme
3. **From manual to automated infra:** CloudFormation, Terraform, and Pulumi have made IaC standard for data platform teams
4. **From separated to embedded ML:** Data engineers who can own the ML data layer (not just supply data to a separate ML team) are increasingly valuable

Dennis's current stack includes Kafka, PySpark, AWS S3/Glue/Athena/Iceberg, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD and CloudFormation. Use the named evidence; avoid generic claims that it maps "precisely" to every target platform.
