Arjun KV
Manjeri
Summary
Experienced BI & Analytics Platform Engineer with nearly 10 years managing enterprise analytics platforms on AWS. Skilled in SAP BO, Denodo, Tableau, SAS, Qlik Sense, and AWS-native services. Led cloud migrations, platform modernization, and security hardening initiatives. Oversaw production analytics systems, focusing on performance tuning, access control, disaster recovery, and cost optimisation.
Overview
4
4
Languages
1
1
Certification
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Data Platform Engineer
Empower
BENGALURU, Karnataka
02.2021 - Current
- Architected, implemented and managed AWS infrastructure for enterprise analytics platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience and operational excellence.
- Led enterprise BI platform modernization initiatives including migrations across AWS accounts, SAP BusinessObjects upgrades and Tableau/Qlik Sense to Amazon QuickSight migration.
- Implemented CICD pipeline for QuickSight deployment and custom disaster recovery solution, enhancing deployment efficiency and system resilience.
- Designed cloud-native disaster recovery architecture using AWS Lambda, Step Functions and S3 to improve platform resilience.
- Designed and implemented automation solutions using AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, AWS CLI and Python to streamline platform operations.
- Configured highly available, multi-cluster architectures using Network Load Balancers (NLB) and Application Load Balancers (ALB).
- Led the full-stack implementation of Denodo Data Virtualization and migrated SAS 9.4 workloads to SAS Viya on Kubernetes.
- Reduced AWS infrastructure costs by approximately 33% through optimization initiatives while maintaining service availability.
- Established governance standards for analytics platforms, ensuring robust access management, effective deployment strategy, and comprehensive operational readiness.
- Partnered with enterprise architects, infrastructure, security and business stakeholders to deliver scalable analytics solutions and drive modernization initiatives.
- Provided technical leadership to BI administration team, mentoring engineers and coordinating production support and platform upgrades to streamline enterprise change management.
- Led production incident management, root cause analysis and platform reliability improvements across mission-critical analytics systems.
- Owned enterprise analytics platforms (SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Data Services, Tableau, Denodo, SAS 9.4, SAS Viya and Amazon QuickSight) supporting global business users.
BI Developer and Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services
Bangalore
10.2017 - 02.2021
- Developed and administered applications such as SAP BO and SAP Crystal Reports.
- Administered Tableau server environment, ensuring optimal performance and user access.
- Migrated SAP BO from version 4.1 to 4.2 and migrated the application from on-premises to AWS cloud.
- Conducted fresh installations for cloud migration, enhancing understanding of cloud concepts.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement cloud solutions, improving integration and functionality.
- Implemented SAML authentication for Tableau with an external site leveraging embedded Tableau dashboards.
- Automated many functions using AWS Lambda and CloudFormation templates.
- Implemented AWS CLI for managing and automating tasks on all servers.
- Set up Network Load Balancers (NLB) and Application Load Balancers (ALB) for all multi-clustered applications.
- Ensured security, reliability, and performance of cloud infrastructure.
- Assumed additional application admin responsibilities, reflecting trust and reliability in performance.
- Created GST invoices, reports, and dashboards to enhance client service and decision-making.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Calicut University
Kuttipuram06-2017
PG Diploma - Data Science
University of Austin Texas
Texas04-2022
Skills
AWS architecture
Amazon QuickSight architecture
Tableau migration
Enterprise migration
BI platform engineering
Data virtualisation
SAP modernization
Analytics modernization
Cloud strategies
CI/CD
Governance compliance
Certification
- Tableau
- Data Science
- Business Analysis
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Malayalam
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Intermediate
B1
Tamil
Intermediate
B1
Timeline
Lead Data Platform Engineer
Empower
02.2021 - Current
BI Developer and Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services
10.2017 - 02.2021
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Calicut University
PG Diploma - Data Science
University of Austin Texas