I leverage extensive Strategic Business acumen, technical expertise & excel in solution Engineering involving Data, AI, Security, Compliance, Risk, Legal & Privacy, Technology Engagement, customer relationship management at the C-suite level (CISO, DPO, CDO, & CIO). With USA, UK & Global experience, my skills drive Business growth through in-depth analysis of technical compliance aligning to business, & compliance. A Guinness World Record Holder for AI skills achievement, I bring proven innovation, cutting-edge AI application skills, & excel in combining business acumen with deep technology expertise in Cloud, Data Engineering, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, Governance, AI & Security, to engineer & deliver powerful solutions that deliver tangible business impact at scale.
Technical Expertise & Business Strategic Insight: Positioning comprehensive cloud data security, & compliance solutions, ensuring robust security & regulatory compliance. Drove adoption & optimized usage of Data governance & compliance assessment platforms, Privacy Management, Subject Rights Requests, Data Classification, Encryption, Access Controls, Data Security posture management for Agentic AI, End Point Security, & One trust Integration to streamline compliance assessments & reporting, securing new business.
Client Pain Points & Digital Transformation: Lead initiatives to address client pain points, proposing tailored solutions that align with their strategic goals & support their digital transformation journeys.
Innovative Solutions & Business Performance: Manage complex situations & recommend innovative solutions, turning data into actionable insights for business enablement, driving revenue growth.
Co-Selling AI-driven security tools: Leveraged AI/ML-powered insights to proactively identify and mitigate threats, presenting advanced security measures and demonstrating the value of innovative security platforms to enhance client trust and sales.
Co-Selling AI-driven productivity and collaboration and business process automation solutions: Optimized productivity and collaboration for organizations through AI model-integrated-powered tools and platforms, prompt engineering best practices, NLP, Document Intelligence, securing new multimillion sales opportunities.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive significant improvements in data security and compliance, supporting sales objectives.
Enhanced organizational reputation as a trusted advisor in cloud data security and compliance, delivering exceptional results and boosting client satisfaction and loyalty through strategic guidance and innovative solutions with Azure AI solutions involving NLP, Document Intelligence, Search, RAG as well as with hands-on experience.
Mentoring & Team Development: Mentoring junior specialists, fostering growth and development to build a knowledgeable and cohesive unit. Sharing sales strategies and best practices to drive team success.
Senior Manager, Data Governance, Quality & Privacy Expert & Technology & Business Specialist
INFORMATICA
07.2021 - 10.2023
Served as a Business - Technology Lead, adept at supporting & driving data quality initiatives across verticals for UK, EMEA.
Teamed up with key partners (Top GSI & boutique).
Provided in-depth knowledge of leading cloud data management, governance, Privacy & Data quality solutions to Prospects, Partners, & Customers, driving business growth.
Enhanced Cloud Data governance & quality solution market share, selling to new logos & existing customers. Evangelized extended teams & partners on the benefits of cutting-edge cloud data solutions involving Data Classification, tagging, masking & DPA.
Achieved & demonstrated success supporting Multi-million- Dollar Business growth while providing excellent Technology Business & Domain expert support in highly competitive markets as a dynamic Business & Technology Leader.
Communicated & presented effectively to C-level (CDO, CAIO, CDIO, DPO). Drove the value of Data Business into organizations by helping them identify their pain points & mapping state-of-the-art technologies to their business needs during their digital transformation journey.
Promoted & enhanced organizational reputation across all industry verticals as a trusted advisor for cloud data solutions & governance.
Managed customer situations & recommended creative solutions to attain financial & business objectives. Turned more accessible, valuable & trusted data into actionable information to drive insights & analytics, business enablement, & compliance with regulations.
Manager - Data Governance, Privacy, Regulatory Compliance, Big Data Engineering & Catalog (Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Barclays, British Telecom)
ACCENTURE
10.2018 - 06.2021
Led & managed Data Governance for a large Data & Technology Transformation Program for British Telecommunications & achieved increased NPS by 7.8 points compared to the prior year baseline.
Data Governance & Consulting for Regulatory Reporting, Global American Health Insurance Company: Architected Data governance workflows to govern data, implemented HIPAA-based privacy policies, & designed workflow processes for efficiency & privacy compliance for Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC.
Enhanced Modern Data Platform Architecture, Global UK Investment Bank: Managed project delivery in analytics, designed architecture, assessed tools, proposed enhanced solution architecture involving ELK, NoSQL, Big Data Stack & Data Lake Reconciliation framework, & achieved positive client outcomes.
Designed & implemented Data Governance for critical business requirements, engaged with stakeholders, & captured data requirements.
Contributed to the development of Data Strategy, Target Operating Model (TOM), & Governance community, & shared best practices.
Assessed & improved Data Quality practices led multi-disciplinary data teams.
Implemented Data Management Capabilities & processes. Facilitated workshops, advised on GDPR compliance, & promoted industry & ISO standards, improving data standardization by 20% & reducing costs.
Thought Leadership, Market Proposition & Business Lifecycle Contribution: Researched future technology trends, developed market propositions & capabilities, contributed to Business lifecycle, RFP response, & go to market content.
Senior Data Manager (Standard Chartered)
OPTIMUM INFOSYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
06.2018 - 09.2018
Data Governance & Data Management with respect to Regulatory reporting: Driven Master Data Management, Reference Data Management, & Metadata Management, captured Data standards, lineage, Data profiling results, Data Quality & identified issues for remediation & improved maturity with respect to adhering to IFRS reporting requirements.
Lead Data Governance, compliance, Data Management, Data Engineering, Data Privacy & Analytics
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS USA & INDIA
01.2011 - 05.2018
Data Governance & Management (BCBS, Fair Lending) JP Morgan Chase
Drove BCBS regulatory compliance for JPMC by identifying, defining, & mapping Critical Data Elements (CDEs) for the Credit Card LOB, directly contributing to risk management & data integrity.
Led Enterprise, Master, & Reference Data Management initiatives to ensure BCBS regulatory adherence. Improved the data certification process & end-to-end data management, enhancing data quality & governance, leading Data Warehouse, & analytical solutions using platforms such as Teradata.
Owned & delivered technical & functional data initiatives, including comprehensive data profiling, quality assessment, lineage, glossary development, & business rules definition. Achieved on-time, within-budget, high-quality project outcomes through rigorous leadership reporting & execution.
Techno-Functional Project Management & Delivery Data Engineering VOYA Financials Formerly ING
Spearheaded key project deliveries for an American financial company, proposing & executing a strategic roadmap to dismantle duplicate data silos, consolidate applications, & upgrade ETL tools. Re-hosted environments from IBM hosted on-premises servers, significantly reducing operational costs by several million dollars.
Engineered backend databases & optimised ETL processes, consistently delivering high-value projects on time, within budget, & with zero defects. Added substantial value to clients by leveraging a 20+56 team members & minimal budget.
Digital Technologies & Big Data Analytics Ameriprise Financials
Led Big Data Analytics initiatives, building a 360-degree Multi-Dimensional View Dashboard & real-time reports for enterprise applications, microservices & infrastructure. This directly improved customer experience, reduced complaints, & proactively prevented application downtime & latency issues with performance optimizations.
Enhanced application availability & response times through intelligent alerting & analytics, leading to increased business generation for the enterprise up by 0.7 billion dollars.
Leveraged Sumo Logic for cloud-based log management & analytics, providing real-time IT insights & actionable data stories that engaged appropriate teams to implement immediate corrective actions & improved preventative controls.
Recognized with three top management awards for successfully implementing data analysis, data engineering, and reporting enhancements. Commended for exceptional troubleshooting, rapid issue resolution, and preventing significant multi-million-dollar financial impact for clients.
Engineered, developed, & maintained applications & databases for US multinational retail operations, significantly enhancing functionality & ensuring data integrity.
Provided critical data analysis with OSS, manipulation, design, & reporting support, Data Ops, optimizing job processing & maintaining high client satisfaction.
Delivered high-quality EDI developments in C++, with full application life cycle design tools & methodologies under tight deadlines, earning direct client appreciation.
Recognized by management for on-time, zero-defect enhancements & exceptional aptitude for quick technology adoption & clear requirement gathering & for saving significant costs by avoiding manual rework.
Education
MS - Software Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology & Science
Pilani, India
11.2010
Skills
Extensive Technical Expertise & Strategic Business Acumen: Solution Engineering, Presales engagement, C Suite relationship management
Specialized Deep Technical Business Compliance : Azure, M365, Informatica, Collibra, Purview,
OEM Knowledge: Amazon, Google etc
Cybersecurity, Data security, Risk, Compliance
AI Agents & Analytics
Data Management, Data Governance, Data Catalogue, Data Quality
Information Protection, Insider Risk Management, Audit, Compliance Management
GDPR & Data Privacy Frameworks, Data Privacy Management, Subject Rights Request
Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI & Agents
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
eDiscovery & Information Governance
AI Development & Application, Prompt Engineering, Model Context Protocol, Auto Gen, Semantic Kernel, Lang Chain
Data Literacy, Data Culture
Speaking at key industry events
Thought leadership roundtables
Envision theatres
Customer-facing panels
Contributing to pipeline business growth & demonstrating expertise in data, AI & Security business
CDO roundtable
Woman in Data
Woman in Cyber
Risk Excel London
Info Security Europe
Ethical leadership
Strategic visioning
Adaptability and resilience
Data-driven decision making
Coaching and mentoring
Accomplishments
Guinness World Record Holder: Achieved recognition for outstanding performance & innovation in AI skills development including deep learning frameworks.
AI Hackathon Success: Actively contributed to AI-focused hackathons, demonstrating advanced problem-solving & practical AI application skills & proved successful outcome for D&I.
Developed Universal AI Agent: Architected & built a universal AI agent leveraging React, Python, JavaScript, & GPT 4.1 with Agile methodology & coding with automated development. Utilized Google Search for grounding via SERP API to enhance contextual understanding & responsiveness, showcasing advanced AI development, engineering & multi-language proficiency.
Certification
Microsoft Certified in Information Protection & Compliance Administration
Azure Security Engineering
Azure AI Engineering
Copilot for Security Achiever
Fabric Analytics Engineering
Informatica Certified Cloud Data Quality - Professional
Informatica Data Management Cloud
At Law certified by Lund University
Collibra Level 3 Data Governance Certified
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
R-Programming & The Data Scientist's Toolbox certified by Johns Hopkins University
Senior Manager, Data Governance, Quality & Privacy Expert & Technology & Business Specialist
INFORMATICA
07.2021 - 10.2023
Manager - Data Governance, Privacy, Regulatory Compliance, Big Data Engineering & Catalog (Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Barclays, British Telecom)
ACCENTURE
10.2018 - 06.2021
Senior Data Manager (Standard Chartered)
OPTIMUM INFOSYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
06.2018 - 09.2018
Lead Data Governance, compliance, Data Management, Data Engineering, Data Privacy & Analytics