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Chetan Bulla

Bangalore

Summary

Experienced Data and Cloud Professional with 10+ years in the BFSI banking sector, delivering end-to-end solutions across data analytics, engineering, and business analysis for clients including, Citibank, HSBC, Empower and Chicago Merchant Exchange. Adept at designing scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, building real-time data streaming solutions using Kafka, Spark, and Flink, and developing interactive dashboards with Tableau. Skilled in cloud migration, data remediation, KYC automation, and regulatory compliance. Proven ability to bridge technical and business teams, document technical solutions, ensure high data quality and governance across complex financial ecosystems.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Architect Lead Analyst

Citibank
Bangalore
11.2024 - Current
  • Led remediation under a regulatory consent order by analyzing end-to-end data flows and standardizing Unique ID generation across retail banking applications.
  • Designing solutions and achieving 95% closure rate of critical data concerns within regulatory timelines, aligned with Citi's enterprise data governance policies.
  • Supported the Data Framework team in resolving cross-project data issues and aligning with enterprise standards.
  • Designed and delivered the Tableau dashboard, integrating data from multiple systems to provide a unified view of applications, technology, business processes, and TCO.
  • Supported KYC automation initiative for USPB by contributing to workflow design and automating 70% of control testing, which reduced manual effort by 30 FTE hours/week and improved onboarding compliance timelines by 25%.
  • Participated in architectural governance activities including Permit-to-Design, Permit-to-Build, Application Attestation, and CEAM compliance.

Senior Engineer

Empower
Bangalore
05.2024 - 11.2024
  • Partnered with business and engineering teams to integrate customer data from Empower (PostgreSQL) and Personal Capital (MySQL) into a unified AWS-based PostgreSQL data warehouse.
  • Led requirements gathering and problem definition for customer ID conflict resolution, ensuring traceability and uniqueness through surrogate key generation and source tagging.
  • Documented use cases for system interactions and ID merge edge cases, collaborating with developers to translate business logic into automated data merge scripts.
  • Defined test cases for migration accuracy, referential integrity, and customer profile consolidation, coordinating UAT across cross-regional teams.
  • Ensured all deliverables adhered to internal data governance and regulatory guidelines, documenting control points and exception handling workflows.

Business Analyst

Synechron
Bangalore
02.2022 - 05.2024
  • Gathered business requirements and led workflow re-engineering for regulatory and KYC pipelines, identifying optimization points in legacy ETL processes.
  • Produced detailed BRDs, FRDs, and use cases, and collaborated with development teams to convert them into actionable specifications.
  • Conducted data analysis to support remediation of data quality issues affecting credit scoring, onboarding, and regulatory reporting.

Data Analyst

Capella-E-Systems
Bangalore
10.2017 - 01.2022
  • Performed detailed data analysis across fraud detection, loan delinquencies, and credit exposure to support pricing and policy decisions that reduced delinquency risk by ~12% and improved fraud flagging accuracy by 15%.
  • Created Tableau dashboards and led what-if analysis for customer segmentation and collections strategies, enabling business teams to improve recovery rates by ~8% and target 20K+ customer segments more effectively.
  • Mapped existing manual analysis workflows and automated them using SQL and Python to reduce turnaround time and improve traceability.
  • Defined test cases for KPI dashboards and participated in UAT efforts for regulatory and internal risk reports.
  • Developed scalable ETL workflows for ingesting and transforming banking data (retail, wealth, and credit risk) using Informatica and Spark, processing 10M+ records daily and reducing SLA breaches by 30%.
  • Collaborated with BAs to translate business needs into STTM documents and developed workflows that supported reporting SLAs and compliance metrics.
  • Participated in problem definition and technical solutioning of ingestion performance issues and schema integration conflicts.

Data Warehouse Test Engineer

FreeKyat
Bangalore
05.2015 - 10.2017
  • Designed end-to-end test strategies for ETL pipelines, regulatory dashboards, and BI reports across credit, fraud, and risk portfolios.
  • Performed validation of system logic, transformation rules, and output accuracy through automated SQL test scripts and reconciliation matrices.
  • Worked in regulated data environments, ensuring audit traceability and compliance with policy by verifying access controls, encryption, and field-level data masking.
  • Performed end-to-end validation for regulatory and compliance reports, ensuring accurate aggregation and transformation logic.
  • Built and shared daily execution reports, test coverage matrices, and defect leakage dashboards with QA leads and business owners.

Education

Master of Technology - Computer Science

Visveswaraya Technological University
Belagavi, Karnataka, India
05.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Visveswaraya Technological University
Belagavi, Karnataka, India
04.2007

Skills

  • Data Analytics
  • Business Analysis
  • Business Architecture
  • Solution Architecture
  • Detailed Technical Design
  • E2E Solutioning
  • Business Roadmaps
  • Simplification & Modernization
  • Problem Solving
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Quality
  • JIRA and Confluence
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Unix and Shell Script
  • Big Data ecosystem (Spark)& Spark)

Websites

Certification

  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect
  • Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification
  • GCP Professional Data Engineer

Awards

Employee of the Month - STAR Award in Synechron Pvt Ltd.

Languages

English
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Architect Lead Analyst

Citibank
11.2024 - Current

Senior Engineer

Empower
05.2024 - 11.2024

Business Analyst

Synechron
02.2022 - 05.2024

Data Analyst

Capella-E-Systems
10.2017 - 01.2022

Data Warehouse Test Engineer

FreeKyat
05.2015 - 10.2017

Master of Technology - Computer Science

Visveswaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Visveswaraya Technological University

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