Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

May 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Vijaya Kadiyala, Executive Director and India Head of Data/AI/Cloud Engineering at DBS, is a key leader driving technical excellence and talent development. Their strategic vision has transformed DBS's technology landscape.
• 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:
• 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗢𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Re-architected DBS's data ecosystem, scaling Airflow from 1.0 to 2.0. This transformed a system handling 12,000 daily jobs to one managing 48,000 by 2025, solving downtime and SLA breaches.
• 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀: Led the migration of over 8,000 data jobs and 750 TB of data to Google Cloud, reducing TCO by 30% and securing an estimated S$500,000 in annual savings.
• 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗨𝗽𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴: Orchestrated significant talent development initiatives at DBS Tech India (DTI):
• 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗨𝗣: Launched a monthly L&D program (July 2025) on Generative and Agentic AI with industry leaders.
• 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲: Upskilled 77% (2600 employees) of the DTI workforce in advanced prompting.
• 𝗚𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹: Engaged over 1500 participants in accelerated Generative and Agentic AI learning and hackathons.
• 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁: Co-sponsored a program engaging 10,000 students across 20 Indian universities to build a talent pipeline.
• 𝗨𝗽𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰): Mobilized internal experts to train over 900 DTI employees in "Data Engineer Journey," “Kubernetes,” and "Data Scientist Journey," earning the "Best Gurucool Team at DTI Level" award.
• 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 & 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: Successfully delivered the Cloud Data Platform Modernization program under budget in 8 months, involving 40 leaders and 520 minds, securing RBI approval.

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · India

• Thriving in Adversity: Master Your Influence
• Description: Learn targeted techniques to effectively lead peers, empower your team, and strategically engage upward management.
• The Next Title: Beyond the Promotion
• Description: Prepare for the unseen responsibilities and critical leadership shifts required to truly own your elevated role.
• Power to Purpose: Lead with Integrity
• Description: Wield influence responsibly, leveraging your title and support for meaningful impact, not personal gain.
• The Untapped Leader: Everyday Excellence
• Description: Discover how daily habits, from home to the road, forge the authentic behaviors of a respected leader.
• Navigating Leadership: From Contributor to Commander
• Description: Gain the essential tools and insights to confidently transition from individual contributor to effective team manager.

Mar 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Role(s) :
• Global Head - Digital Analytics Platform
• India Head - Digital Data Hub
• + Responsible for Digital Analytics Platform strategy, Architecture and High level Design.
• + Leading Self Healing and Self Service solutions to improve overall Production stability.
• + Responsible for Digital Data Hub Strategy, Architecture.
• + Responsible for Developing Accelerators to Drive Data Hub

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 · 2 mos

• Global Head - Data Consumption Architect
• Global Head - Test Automation Architect

Jan 2019 – Dec 2019 · 11 mos

• + Conceptualised, Presented, Created and executed First ever Crowdsourcing culture in India in Consumer & Community Banking Space.
• + Resulted in 20% of Employees participated and contributed to 100K Hours Of Development which is spread across POCs, Automation, Innovation and Book Of Work.

Sep 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Role(s):
• Global Head - Data Consumption Architect
• Global Head - Test Automation Architect
• + Provided Technical Leadership and Solutions to global teams of Architects, Designers and Engineers.
• + Responsible for Data Consumption and Test Automation strategies for Data Lake.
• + Defined Data Ingestion Patterns for Data Lake.
• + Proposed Cloud Migration strategy for Batch & Reporting Applications.

Jun 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Role(s):
• India Head - Data Solutions & Engineering
• + Led the Modernization of ETL and Data Model which improved overall end to end SLA.
• + Led the strategy of Data consumption and Data Usage across heterogeneous platforms which resulted in reduction of Total Cost of Ownership.

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Feb 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Role(s):
• India Head - Data Solutions Architect
• India Head - ETL Center of Excellence
• + Lead the Strategy, Architecture and Development of workload migration from Teradata to Hadoop.
• + Led Data Governance and Solution review board to improve overall Data Quality and consistent Data Solutions across Data Lake (Teradata, Hadoop and Oracle).
• + Led Software upgrades with nearly no imapct to customer.

Feb 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr

• Role(s):
• India Head - Chief Development Office
• India Head - Chase Data Services
• + Designed and Developed Operational Data Model to support ~75K batch Data Flows on daily basis.
• + Led the development of ETL Common Services in AB Initio for Data Ingestion, Data Transformation And Data Provisioning in Hadoop, Teradata and Oracle.
• + Designed the overall strategy for Automated deployments, Deployment Artefacts, Automated Code reviews and Dependency Deployment Management.

Aug 2014 – May 2020 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• + Expert Engineer (E2) is one of the prestigious Program. Every Year only 96 Engineers are selected across the bank after several rounds of interviews and discussions. The Population of Expert Engineers are only 1.67% across the bank.
• + Being first from Hyderabad and Bangalore, was responsible to mentor and groom the E2 Pipeline and increase footprint in Hyderabad.
• + Led the Expert Engineers Community and executed several ground breaking innovations to improve customer experience and employee experience.

May 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Apr 2014 – Dec 2019 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Jul 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Role(s) : Data Management Lead - Data Ecosystem
• + Architected, Deigned and Implemented Metadata Repository for Data Lake which enabled data lineage from to Source to Target.

Jun 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Apr 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Role(s) : Database Architect & Lead
• + Architected, Designed & Developed Database Hygiene Solutions.
• + Designed and Developed Data Retention Solutions across 40+ Applications.
• + Responsible for Reference Data Repository Architecture, Designed and Development.

Aug 2005 – Jul 2010 · 4 yrs 11 mos · New York, Columbus, Bangalore

• Role(s): Data Modeler
• + Responsible to design and develop Data Models for Data Centric applications.
• + Responsible to Tune application queries
• + Responsible to design partitioning strategies in Oracle Space.
• + Designed and Developed Data Services to support Data Migration from Production to Non Production to enable efficient testing.

Jul 2010 – Mar 2011 · 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Role(s) : Technical Architect and Delivery Lead
• + Responsible to design and deliver Solution in Master Data Management.
• + Guide the Database Group team locally and lead and delivered the Multi-million dollar project.

Aug 2005 – Jul 2010 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Database Designing, Application Design and Architecture, Performance Tuning.

Dec 2004 – Aug 2005 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Role(s): Production Support Engineer
• + L2 Production Support to Java, Struts and J2EE based Application

Aug 2001 – Dec 2004 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Role(s): Application Developer
• + Designed and developed UI screens using classic ASP and ASP.Net
• + Designed and Developed middleware services using VB and VB.Net
• + Designed Database Triggers in Oracle for Auditing.
• + Designed and Developed Data Migration Services from Andromeda to Oracle.