Feb 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Strategic Leadership: Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer as the Data & AI Service Line Delivery Head, spearheading the design and execution of analytics strategies that align seamlessly with the organization’s overarching business goals.
• Global Delivery Excellence: Overseeing end-to-end global delivery of Data & Analytics programs spanning India, Manila, and the US, ensuring consistent quality and measurable outcomes.
• Innovation in Data & Analytics Including Generative AI: Driving transformative strategic initiatives significantly enhancing the organization’s competitive edge and positioning in a dynamic market landscape.
• Practice Leadership: Established and scaled the organization’s Data Practice/Service Line, embedding industry-leading best practices and operational standards across functions to drive excellence.
• Team & Budget Management: Directed a high-performing team of Data Architects while managing substantial budgets, delivering cutting-edge Data & Analytics solutions through strategic technical leadership.
• Partnership & Innovation: Cultivated strategic alliances with technology partners, ensuring seamless integration of cutting-edge innovations and advancements within the practice.
• Talent Strategy: Led efforts in attracting, hiring, and retaining top-tier talent, fostering a high-performing, innovation-driven team culture that supports the practice's long-term success.

Aug 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

• Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer in the capacity of Cloud Data Engineering Head, tasked with devising tactical and strategic solutions that aligns with the organization's overarching business objectives.
• Championing the development and delivery of large-scale Data & Analytics platforms and applications, harnessing contemporary cloud-native tools and technologies, coupled with advanced engineering expertise.
• Driving key strategic initiatives in Generative AI, contributing significantly to the organization's advancement and competitive positioning in the market.
• Providing decisive guidance to global leaders spanning diverse industries, empowering them to enhance their business outcomes through the effective utilization of Data & Analytics, thereby facilitating informed decision-making.
• Established and refined the Cloud Practice within the organization, implementing industry best practices and standards across various departments.
• Oversaw a proficient team of Cloud Architects and managed substantial budgets, offering them strategic technical direction to develop and deliver world-class Data & Analytics applications.
• Cultivated and nurtured relationships with technology partners, ensuring seamless integration of the latest innovations and advancements within the practice.
• Leading efforts in talent acquisition, attracting and hiring top-tier professionals, and spearheaded initiatives for talent retention within the practice, thereby ensuring a high-performing team.
• Managing budgetary allocations and conducted comprehensive discussions related to rewards and recognition, collaborating closely with the HR department to align these efforts with organizational goals.
• Providing strategic guidance to the Learning & Development department, facilitating the cross-skilling and upskilling of talent, thus enabling a judicious balance between significant 'Build Vs Buy' decisions.

Jun 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Lead Data & Analytics unit within Blazeclan which delivers cutting edge analytics solutions on cloud to various markets globally
• Develop & Manage relationship with new & existing clients and stakeholders across the Globe
• Guiding clients in modernizing their existing on-prem Data warehousing to Cloud
• Partnering clients in enabling AI/ML use cases within their data organization
• Bring the strategic leadership to find the avenues to monetize the Data within organization
• Support CTO office on the organization Analytics Strategy & execute the strategy to instrument Analytics within group
• Manage teams of highly motivated Cloud engineers to deliver analytics solutions to the clients
• Mentoring and nurturing staff to support systematic development of next generation of leaders
• Incubating and building competencies capability around ML, AI and Data Engineering across cloud ecosystems
• Extensive experience with the Data Lake architecture, governance, design and development
• Responsible to deliver the Data and Analytics programs with value outcomes for the clients
• Support the Sales and Presales functions with artifacts around technology and application of same to close the required commercial deals
• Research and Development initiatives for technical solutions and accelerators
• Created various assets - Point of Views, Frameworks, Solutions in the Data and Analytics space – for establishing thought leadership, improving time to market, reducing cost to quality and improving productivity

Nov 2015 – Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Big Data Consulting, Prototyping & Architecture
• Hadoop, Analytics, IOT, Data Discovery, Machine Learning, Cloud, NoSQL

Jul 2008 – Jun 2019 · 10 yrs 11 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Big Data/Teradata / Ab Initio /Informatica/ Data warehousing

Mar 2015 – Oct 2015 · 7 mos

Jan 2008 – Feb 2015 · 7 yrs 1 mo

• Datawarehousing Solution Architect

Aug 2006 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Informatica /Teradata ETL Solution Designer
• Data Modeler

Mar 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• BODI , Informatica , Oracle

Dec 2002 – Mar 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Oracle PL/SQL
• HRMS
• Payroll

Sep 2002 – Nov 2002 · 2 mos

• Oracle
• Asp
• Payroll Solutions
• HR Solutions