Brandon Hoeft

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DISC Type : C

Director, Data Engineering at The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Overview

Brandon is the Director of Data Engineering at OCC, where he enhances analytics platforms for financial risk management. His expertise spans building enterprise data warehouses and managing machine learning practices for financial regulators. He holds a Masters degree from Northwestern University and a Bachelors from Loyola University Chicago.

Outside of his core role, Brandon is committed to continuous professional development, recently earning a new certification in data engineering. He has a philosophical perspective on career growth, believing in the freedom of decoupling ones professional identity from specific technologies.

He considers dbt (data build tool) the most motivating, SQL-based technology he has learned in the data stack in the past couple of years.

Personality Overview

Critic

Objective Thinker

ROI Driven

They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.  They prefer to do logical analysis and value evidence over emotions. They enjoy working alone and do not rely on others very often.

Topics They Care About

Data Modeling
Believes business-embraced data models are more impactful than tech stacks for accelerating BI. He is hiring engineers to build a semantic layer for OCC's core business.
DataOps Practices
He has experience building DataOps practices from the ground up, implementing git, CI, unit testing, and data quality testing where they previously did not exist.
Risk & Fraud Detection
Previously developed machine learning models to predict fraud and non-compliance risk for brokers and hedge funds at a U. S. financial regulator.

Media Appearances

Brandon has no verified media appearances

Work History

9-2025
Director, Data Engineering at The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
3-2023 - 8-2025
Principal, Data Analytics Engineering at The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
5-2019 - 3-2023
Associate Principal, Data Analytics Engineering at The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
7-2018 - 5-2019
Manager, Data Science; Risk Management Group at National Futures Association
8-2014 - 6-2018
Data Scientist, Risk Management Group at National Futures Association

Education

2014 - 2018
Master of Science (M.S.) from Northwestern University
2006 - 2010
Bachelor’s Degree from Loyola University Chicago

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Insights For Selling To Brandon

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Be ready to answer many clarity-seeking questions and requests for information
  • Be ready for penetrating questions and critical examination of your pitch
  • Be formal and objective, they will appreciate it more

DONT's

  • Do not use very emotional or colorful language
  • Avoid phrases like ‘trust me’, ‘others just love’ etc.
  • Avoid pushing them too much to involve other stakeholders unless it is critical

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Brandon is

  • Strong evidence of ROI, effective pricing, and proven data points matter the most to them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Brandon

  • It is not very hard for them to say no if they are not convinced about the decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Brandon move?

  • They are neither the fastest nor the slowest decision makers, they are somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Brandon take some risk or not?

  • They can bear some risk if their analysis backs the decision.

You And Brandon

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