Arvind Babu
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic Engineering Leader with a proven track record at Lloyds Technology Center, specializing in data engineering and machine learning. Expert in building high-performing teams and delivering innovative data solutions. Skilled in Snowflake and technical leadership, driving impactful data strategies that align with business objectives and enhance operational efficiency.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Leader – Data & ML
Lloyds Technology Center
Hyderabad
11.2024 - Current
- Define the vision, strategy and roadmap for the organization’s data engineering, governance and ML platform to align with critical business goals
- Help design, build, and facilitate adoption of modern Data products, accelerators & ML platform
- Build a team of Data and ML Platform engineers from a small footprint
- Oversee the design and implementation of a platform containing data pipelines, feature stores and model deployment frameworks
- Technologies: Snowflake, Alteryx, Dataiku, Databricks, GCP, JIRA, Collibra, AWS, Azure, Python, H2O, Ataccama, DevOps, PowerBI
Head of Delivery & Operations (Regional Director)
Billigence
Bengaluru
06.2023 - 08.2024
- Assist and support data engineering, analytics, governance and data science initiatives, including gathering client’s requirements, budgeting and solution selling as required
- Provided technical leadership and guidance to clients on data architecture, engineering, and analytics, transforming their data strategy into actionable solutions
- Led pre-sales activities for Data services, including proposal development, presentations and technical discussions, creating compelling value propositions and business cases for data initiatives
- Technologies: Snowflake, Alteryx, Dataiku, Databricks, GCP, JIRA, Collibra, AWS, Azure, Python, H2O, Tableau, PowerBI
Senior Manager – Data and Analytics Technology
JCPenney
Bengaluru
12.2020 - 06.2023
- Led a diverse team of 100+ members in a fast-paced environment
- Conducted Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives)
- Maintained and supported e-commerce platforms, data platforms, data accelerators, data warehouses, and data lakes in AWS, Oracle, and Snowflake
- Planned, prioritized, and oversaw data warehouse projects, including migrations from Oracle to Snowflake
- Collaborated with technical leads and architects to implement data engineering practices for Loyalty, Supply Chain, and Finance teams
- Served as an escalation point for resolving roadblocks in BI and AI/ML project delivery by partnering with stakeholders
- Technologies: Spark,Hadoop,Sqoop, Hive, Kafka, Map Reduce, HBASE,Airflow,Tableau, AWS, Azure, Azure ML, Databricks, Snowflake, OBIEE,OWB, JIRA
Senior Manager – Data Engineering and Analytics
Harman, A Samsung Company
Bengaluru
02.2018 - 12.2020
- Worked in the product and services division within the data engineering team
- Monitored and managed project baseline to ensure scope, budget, and schedule alignment, addressing any variances
- Managed data strategy, data lifecycle, and governance
- Designed, developed, and supported data pipelines using AWS and Talend
- Provided data engineering solutions for a restaurant analytics client, focusing on pricing, guest analytics, and loyalty programs for US restaurants
- Technologies: Hadoop, Sqoop, Hive, Kafka, flume, Hbase, Spark, AWS, JIRA
Data Architect
Gale
Bengaluru
07.2017 - 01.2018
Tech Lead
Sonata Software
Bengaluru
10.2013 - 02.2017
Senior software Engineer
Hewlett Packard Globalsoft
Bengaluru
04.2011 - 09.2013
Software Engineer
Affiliated Computer Services
Bengaluru
07.2005 - 01.2011
Education
MBA - Technology Management
Anna University
Bangalore, Karnataka12.2020
Bachelors of Technology - Major in Electronics And Communication Engineering
Pondicherry University
Pondicherry12.2004
Skills
- Large-scale distributed systems
- Handling P&L and Operations
- Testing
- Monitoring
- SLA management
- Building and scaling software engineering teams
- Machine learning
- Distributed systems
- Multi-cloud environments
- Data and AI infrastructure
- Resource management infrastructure
- Technical leadership
- Architecture reviews
- Data Lakehouse platforms
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Sql
- Python
- Alteryx
- Dataiku
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GIT
- AWS Cloudformation
- HashiCorp Vault
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- PySpark
- Hadoop
- Kafka
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- Looker
- GenAI
- AI Agents
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- MLFlow
- Collibra
- Atlan
- Ataccama
- Data architecture
- Data governance
- Agile methodology
Certification
- Collibra Certified Solution Architect
- Collibra Certified Data Steward
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Dataiku core designer
- Snowflake Technical Sales Professional
Accomplishments
- Founding member of Billigence India delivery center, bootstrapped team from 0, and built products and practice from scratch.
- Optimised infrastructure cost in million's (USD) through various optimization initiatives.
- Lead India team in building the next generation AI product which helps clients to find the ‘next best action’.
Timeline
Engineering Leader – Data & ML
Lloyds Technology Center
11.2024 - Current
Head of Delivery & Operations (Regional Director)
Billigence
06.2023 - 08.2024
Senior Manager – Data and Analytics Technology
JCPenney
12.2020 - 06.2023
Senior Manager – Data Engineering and Analytics
Harman, A Samsung Company
02.2018 - 12.2020
Data Architect
Gale
07.2017 - 01.2018
Tech Lead
Sonata Software
10.2013 - 02.2017
Senior software Engineer
Hewlett Packard Globalsoft
04.2011 - 09.2013
Software Engineer
Affiliated Computer Services
07.2005 - 01.2011
MBA - Technology Management
Anna University
Bachelors of Technology - Major in Electronics And Communication Engineering
Pondicherry University
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