Today, we’re excited to continue our brand-new series of interviews with the leaders of TEAM International’s Studios, and we hope you’re ready to dive deeper with us. After two insightful discussions with Dmytro and Sergiy from Managed & Professional Services Studio and Information Security Studio, respectively, we sat down to chat with Andres S., Data Director and Head of Data Studio at TEAM.
Let’s peek behind the curtain of data bits to discover how TEAM’s Data Studio operates, beats DMaaS challenges, and celebrates victories.
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TEAM: Andres, hi, and thanks for joining us today. We usually start with the basics, so could you tell us all about your Studio? Don’t hold back on those details! What was the idea behind its creation?
Andres: Hey, thanks for having me! So, the basics… Well, our Data Studio helps TEAM’s partners and internal stakeholders get more from their data by transforming it into actionable business insights. We cover the analytical journey end-to-end, creating data assets that will serve for taking action, covering descriptive and advanced analytics and ML, and paving the way for AI with curated, governed data assets.
What was behind its creation? I’d say the necessity of centralized expertise, standardized practices, and accelerated value creation from data. Think of it as a cross-functional center of excellence that bridges IT, business, and innovation.
TEAM: Sounds ambitious, for sure! Can you also elaborate on the main mission and vision the Data Studio follows? Why are those important for TEAM’s high-quality delivery of data management services?
Andres: Of course. So, our mission is to design, build, and govern secure, scalable, and insightful data solutions that empower organizations to unlock the value of their information. We provide full-cycle data-related services, from ingestion and storage to analytics and AI, ensuring data compliance, quality, and accessibility for both technical and non-technical users.
As for the vision, we aim to be a global leader in data-driven transformation, where properly governed, AI-ready data powers every operational decision, workflow, and innovation. Our Studio creates a federated data ecosystem that democratizes access, accelerates research and business transformation, and establishes data as a strategic asset for every customer we serve.
In a nutshell:
Our mission guarantees operational excellence here and now (delivering the right service, in the right way, every time).
Our vision ensures continuous improvement tomorrow (services evolve to meet businesses’ future needs, not become obsolete).
Without them:
Delivery risks becoming inconsistent (mission unclear).
Solutions risk being short-sighted or misaligned with growth (vision missing).
TEAM: Okay, that clearly shows your serious approach to how we treat each customer’s success. And following that, what key principles do you use in your work? Like, how do you actually manage service delivery while meeting our partners’ needs?
Andres: The Data Studio delivers services with a customer-first mindset. We start by listening to each customer’s unique needs and challenges. Then, we design solutions that put business goals ahead of technology. And we work with trust and transparency, making sure our partners always know what to expect at every stage. Clear communication and reliable delivery are part of how we build long-term partnerships. Because every customer’s data landscape differs, we stay flexible and adaptable.
Whether it’s modernizing legacy systems, integrating cloud platforms, or setting up governance, we tailor our approach to fit the context. We also believe in synchronized teamwork. Our engineers, scientists, and designers collaborate closely with customers’ teams, celebrating success together when data insights create real impact. And finally, we act with social responsibility, embedding privacy, security, and compliance into everything we do, ensuring that data is handled responsibly and used to create value for organizations and their stakeholders.
TEAM: Got it! Well, wouldn’t expect anything less from you guys, as we know your team is one of the strongest advocates of excellence in everything you practice. If we were to name them, though, what would be the main stages of your project management/delivery cycle?
Andres: Oh, that’s a nice one. Let me put it like this. TEAM’s Data Studio follows these major stages of delivery during each project:
Discovery & Planning: Understand customers’ goals, challenges, and success metrics.
Data Integration: Collect and unify data from all required sources.
Processing & Governance: Cleanse, structure, and secure this data with the right controls.
Analytics & Insights: Build models, dashboards, and tools to generate insights.
Delivery & Adoption: Enable self-service data management portals for non-technical users and advanced workspaces for specialists.
Operations & Improvement: Monitor, measure outcomes, and continuously enhance the solution provided.
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TEAM: And what does your team management look like? Can you maybe share with our readers what you do to ensure every employee stays engaged and motivated?
Andres: Surely. In Data Studio, we believe people deliver their best when they’re technically challenged, continuously learning, and aligned with the project’s goals. So, we keep our teams engaged by assigning complex, real-world challenges that push their skills to new limits and create a sense of impact. Alongside delivery, we provide a clear learning path—through training, certifications, and mentorship—so every team member grows as technology and industry evolve.
For project alignment, we rely on agile practices such as Scrum and Kanban. These frameworks ensure transparency, regular feedback, and a steady delivery rhythm that keeps everyone focused and accountable for their results.
TEAM: Would you be willing to share insider insights about your internal team culture? It’d be cool to find out how you all celebrate your wins and work on fixing your mistakes.
Andres: Absolutely. So, our team culture is built on a flexible balance of remote work and in-office collaboration, giving people the autonomy to focus on while still enjoying the energy of working together. We invest in team-building activities that strengthen trust and connection across geographies. When it comes to recognition, we believe in celebrating wins publicly, so achievements are visible and appreciated by all.
At the same time, we address improvement points in private, focusing on constructive feedback and growth. This way, we foster accountability while maintaining respect and motivation. In short, our culture is one of collaboration, continuous learning, and shared success, where every team member feels valued and empowered to improve.
TEAM: Excellent, it’s great to know that your Studio cares about every TEAMer being determined to become their best selves. So, pretty much continuing this topic, can we discuss what is the most challenging part of what you do in the Data Studio?
Andres [smiles]: Ah, going in headfirst, I see. Well, truth be told, the most challenging part is maintaining a technology-agnostic approach while always thinking ahead with our partners and customers. We don’t just design data solutions for today’s needs; we focus on ensuring they can scale and adapt to future scenarios and emerging disruptions. Balancing immediate value with long-term flexibility is complex, but it’s also the most rewarding part of our work.
TEAM: Since we went into the area of technology-focused challenges, can you briefly disclose the core tech stack the Studio leverages for daily challenges? Your team definitely stays abreast of the latest emerging technologies—we’re eager to learn how you do this.
Andres: Internally, our core technology stack is built on Microsoft Azure and Fabric, which provide the backbone for our data storage and management services. We also work closely with Salesforce , both as a platform and as one of our major internal data sources. To accelerate delivery and empower business users, we leverage low-code/no-code platforms, including Nintex and the Microsoft Power Platform.
For our partners, we always remain technology-agnostic, meaning we can reuse and enrich your existing architecture, or propose the most suitable stack for your specific use case and long-term goals.
To keep up with emerging tech advancements, our teams follow a continuous learning path, combining certifications, research, and real-world project experience. We actively test and adopt new tools where they add value, ensuring our customers benefit from the latest innovations without unnecessary risk.
TEAM: Then, proceeding with versatility. There is a rising tide of popularity for advanced data-related trends like AI literacy and compliance, multi-cloud data processing, data integrity, and others. What is our capacity to provide solutions in those emerging domains?
Andres: Thankfully, our Data Studio is built for versatility, allowing us to deliver value across today’s needs and tomorrow’s trends. So, let’s take a closer look at what you mentioned already.
AI Literacy & Adoption: We work closely with our AI/Transformation Studio to deliver AI-powered solutions and automatic backup services, helping organizations build AI literacy through governed models, explainable insights, and user training.
Compliance & Privacy: Our every solution embeds governance, anonymization, and auditing aligned with HIPAA, GDPR, ISO, and other global standards.
Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Processing: While we build on Azure and Fabric internally, as I mentioned before, we remain tech-agnostic, able to reuse or extend AWS, GCP, and hybrid architectures.
Data Integrity & Trust: We apply cutting-edge data quality management solutions to ensure quality, lineage, and monitoring so insights are accurate, reproducible, and reliable.
Future-Proof Scalability: Our solutions are designed to scale and adapt along with business needs, balancing immediate value with long-term flexibility.
In short, the Data Studio, working in tandem with the AI/Transformation Studio, combines governance, scalability, and AI innovation to help customers stay compliant, future-ready, and competitive.
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TEAM: This is incredible, if you ask us! And how about any particular data-related projects that you’re proud of? It’d be super exciting to discover what interesting problems and solutions your team has recently tackled.
Andres [smiles]: Indeed, we have many of those. I’d like to think of us as one of the best big data analytics companies out there, so I say we’re proud of everything we deliver. But yes, let’s take this case we had for a famous ABM Platform that accelerates B2B sales and marketing as an example. This customer partnered with TEAM to build two data-driven solutions aimed at driving revenue with AI-powered advertising and scalable data solutions. The company’s main business challenge was establishing smarter, faster ad campaign execution and precise customer targeting. So, the goals we had to achieve included streamlining operations, improving campaign performance, and delivering better insights with less effort. As the company faced intense competition in the digital advertising space and needed to modernize its approach to customer targeting and campaign creation, TEAM was tasked to:
Identify high-potential users with greater precision
Reduce the complexity and time investment required to build campaigns
Enable faster decision-making with AI and automation
One of the projects focused on creating an advanced solution for intelligent targeting through behavioral data. And here, TEAM’s data experts built a robust data pipeline to extract and process user browsing behavior, leveraging Python, Scala, Spark, and Snowflake. This solution helped our customer generate enriched datasets, including cookies, IP addresses, and UUIDs, enabling more accurate real-time audience identification for personalized advertising.
And during the second project, we worked on a conversational ad campaign builder, using OpenAI and AWS Bedrock. Our team developed an AI-driven interface that enables users to create and launch advertising campaigns through natural voice and chat inputs. This significantly reduced friction in campaign setup, allowing for faster execution and iteration.
These two innovations, coupled with scalable infrastructure and secure cloud storage for the business’s future growth and expansion that we also delivered, empowered the platform to:
Improve targeting accuracy with behavioral data insights and smart segmentation.
Accelerate campaign creation and reduce the setup time from hours to minutes through conversational AI.
Enable more personalized and timely campaigns that drastically increased its revenue.
TEAM: By the way! We’ve briefly touched on this subject already in the context of applying AI, but let’s come back to it for a moment. Besides providing solutions directly related to data management and transformation, can you tell us more about how your team manages projects where there is a need to combine data services with something else for a customer, e.g., UI/UX design or cybersecurity implementation?
Andres: Yes, an interesting point, for sure. As I said, our Data Studio works hand in hand with all the other TEAM International’s Studios to deliver end-to-end IT solutions that go beyond data.
With the Design Studio, we ensure dashboards and portals are intuitive and user-friendly.
With the Digital Software Studio, we integrate data into full-stack applications.
With the Software Implementation Studio, we align data solutions with business processes.
With the Information Security Studio, we embed strong cybersecurity practices.
With the Salesforce Studio, we connect CRM data to a broader analytics ecosystem.
This cross-studio collaboration lets us deliver holistic solutions, combining data, design, software, and security, tailored to each customer’s needs.
TEAM: Our guess is that this flexibility and holistic service delivery are one reason, but can you expand further on what makes customers turn to TEAM’s Data Studio as their top choice? They opt for your services, so something must differentiate us from our competitors.
Andres: Our Studio is backed by decades of TEAM International’s proven experience across industries and strengthened by our Microsoft Gold Partnership in Data and AI. In just the last two years, we’ve built a strong record of delivering secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions that help customers unlock real business value. What sets us apart further is our adaptability: we can enrich your existing architecture or design future-ready digital tools that balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s opportunities. By combining modern solutions for data governance, compliance, and innovation, we give our clients a trusted partner for their data transformation journey.
TEAM: And what would be the key business problems/industry challenges that we solve for our customers?
Andres: Well, first and foremost, the Data Studio helps customers tackle data challenges across any industry and at any cadence. Whether it’s real-time decision-making, daily reporting, batch processing, or high-volume streaming and IoT data, we design applications that fit the pace and scale of each business. From enabling compliance and governance and unlocking advanced analytics and AI capabilities to empowering non-technical users with self-service insights, we make data a trusted, accessible, and strategic asset for every organization we work with.
TEAM: Another vital aspect we should discuss is how we ensure uninterrupted service delivery for our nearshore and offshore customers alike.
Andres: We do this by working closely with our Managed & Professional Services Studio, which provides dedicated post-production maintenance and support. With TEAM International’s global presence across four continents, we have a talent pool of professionals across numerous nearshore regions in LATAM, Europe, and Asia, ensuring coverage across all time zones. Plus, our strong focus on data lineage and literacy makes it easier to trace, identify, and resolve issues quickly, ensuring smooth, reliable service for both nearshore and offshore partners.
TEAM: Fantastic! Thank you for this insightful and honest conversation, mate. We’ll let you go now, as you definitely have many things to do, maybe some complex embedded BI for SaaS or innovative data storage solutions. Anyway, may all your projects be smooth and successful!
Andres [laughs]: May they be, indeed. See you, folks!
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