Prabhu Gnana Sundar
Enterprise Data Architect
Chennai
Summary
Experienced data professional with strong ability to architect and manage complex enterprise data solutions. Skilled in data modeling, data integration, and database design, with proven track record of optimizing data systems for efficiency and reliability. Known for fostering team collaboration and delivering impactful results, adapting seamlessly to evolving business needs. Highly dependable and focused on driving data-driven insights and business success.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Enterprise Data Architect
Barclays Global Service Center
03.2021 - Current
- Migrated numerous legacy systems to newer technologies, reducing costs, and enhancing efficiency of computing tasks.
- Designed internal process improvements to automate repetitive tasks, shortening data delivery times.
- Developed the process of creating and managing data dictionaries and data models for private banking and wealth management.
- Built and managed the data engineering and data modeling team to handle customer lifecycle management.
- Complied with regulatory guidelines such as GDPR and PCI DSS in design architecture, ensuring adherence to strict privacy and security laws.
- Managed identification, protection and use of data assets across the domain.
- Championed privacy by design in CLM, PBWM.
- Architected and designed batch and real-time data platforms for merchant billing in Payments and Merchant Services, adhering to PCI DSS guidelines, and handled personal information as per PII standards.
- Developed a robust data quality management framework, increasing the accuracy and reliability of enterprise-wide information assets.
- Designed a framework that helps with compliance and regulations, such as GDPR, PII, and FATCA. Set up KPIs for data architects and data modelers, mentoring the data team on a regular basis. Handled multi-vendor engagement required to meet the talent needs of the PBWM domain.
Senior Data Engineer
The Data Team
07.2016 - 02.2021
- Designed and built a governed data lake framework initially for an on-premises setup, later improvised it as a cloud-native solution on AWS and Azure.
- Designed and built a customer profiling solution that is massively scalable and was deployed for a telecom company.
- Designed and built a cloud-native, scalable audience segmentation and audience discovery solution.
- Designed and built a real-time offering solution that could send out the most probable, right offer to the right person, at the right time, via the right channel.
- Built a highly scalable data platform on Azure to manage IoT data, customer data, retail transactions, and billing for a listed retail Maharatna company.
- Reengineered existing ETL workflows to improve performance by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing code accordingly.
- Optimized data pipelines by implementing advanced ETL processes and streamlining data flow.
- Mentored junior team members in best practices for software development, code optimization, and troubleshooting techniques.
- I consulted on data architecture and data engineering for various domains, and I provided multiple PoCs.
Technical Lead
Hinduja Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
06.2015 - 06.2016
- Built a data platform for fleet management and fleet analytics.
- Built a data platform for warehouse management on the Hadoop platform. The platform enabled predictive analytics to stack stocks in warehouses across the country.
- I did multiple PoCs on big data for various requirements related to IoT data from vehicles and warehouses.
- Developed scalable and maintainable code, ensuring long-term stability of the software.
Technical Lead
Alcatel Lucent (now Nokia)
03.2014 - 05.2015
- Built a standalone application to perform static code analysis on complex C++ codebases in the fixedline networks domain, by simulating the environment very close to the objeThis reduced the code analysis time from a few hours to less than 5 minutes.5minutes.
Software Engineer
Collabnet Software Pvt. Ltd.
08.2010 - 03.2014
- Partial committer to the Apache Subversion open-source project.
- Built the feature to verify the repository recursively and collate all the issues without breaking upon the first occurrence of an issue.
Education
B.E - Computer Science
Tagore Engineering College
03-2010
Skills
Master data management
Data quality management
Data governance
Real-time analytics
Data warehousing solutions
Data privacy compliance
Cloud architecture design
Cloud migration strategies
Open Source Contributions
Apache Subversion
I built the "verify keep-going" feature which helps to recursively identify all corruptions in a repository.
Timeline
Enterprise Data Architect
Barclays Global Service Center
03.2021 - Current
Senior Data Engineer
The Data Team
07.2016 - 02.2021
Technical Lead
Hinduja Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
06.2015 - 06.2016
Technical Lead
Alcatel Lucent (now Nokia)
03.2014 - 05.2015
Software Engineer
Collabnet Software Pvt. Ltd.
08.2010 - 03.2014
B.E - Computer Science
Tagore Engineering College