A day in the life of a data architect

“A Day in the Life of a Data Architect” was a Globe Data Dialogues panel held over Zoom on Monday, April 13, 2026, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM. It was organized by the UP Data Science Society with Globe Telecom, and the three panelists all work in Globe’s data architecture team. The idea was to show students what a data architect does day to day: the platforms they build, the people they build them for, and how they got into the role.

Panelists

Alfred Gonzales is a Data Architecture Expert at Globe Telecom. He started as a Software Engineer and spent ten years building applications for various companies before moving to data. He now designs and builds enterprise data platforms, with Snowflake and the modern data stack at the core of his work, so that analysts and decision-makers have trusted, high-quality data to work with.

Chester Abulencia is Manager of Data Architecture at Globe Telecom. An IT alumnus of Mapua University, he has spent over a decade in data architecture and engineering roles. At Globe he designs and implements modern data warehousing solutions on cloud technologies, focused on getting data to analysts fast enough to act on.

Mica Lumain-Panganiban is Senior Manager of Data Architecture at Globe Telecom. She leads the design and scaling of the enterprise data systems behind Globe’s services and sets the data strategy that supports business decisions across the company.

About the series

The society and Globe followed the panel up in August 2026 with Beyond AI adoption, a session on responsible AI use in academe and the workplace.