Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Azureskills
Projectmanagement
Dataexpertise
Accomplishments
Timeline
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SOMANATH BEHERA

SOMANATH BEHERA

Associate Director
Bengaluru

Summary

Strategic and results-driven Data Engineering and Solution Architecture professional with over 14 years of experience in architecting and delivering scalable data platform solutions for global enterprises. Expertise includes designing metadata-driven data platforms, data modeling, and executing complex data integration and migration projects. Proven collaborator with CXOs and senior stakeholders, adept at aligning technical solutions with critical business objectives while leading cross-functional teams of data engineers, infrastructure specialists, modelers, and testers across multiple projects. Strong track record in pre-sales and client engagement, resulting in multi-million-dollar project wins, complemented by a commitment to mentoring teams and implementing best practices that enhance project delivery timelines.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Associate Director, Data Modernization

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
1 2020 - Current
  • Westpac – Delivery Lead & Lead Data Architect for Westpac’s Data Driven Experience Platform
  • Led teams of up to 14 personnel, supervising daily performance as well as training and improvement plans.
  • Mentored junior staff members, providing guidance on professional development opportunities and career progression paths within the company.
  • Reduced operational costs by identifying inefficiencies and implementing cost-saving measures in various departments.
  • Oversaw annual budget planning processes, ensuring financial goals were met while maintaining optimal resource allocation across departments.
  • Managed cross-functional teams for multiple large-scale projects, successfully completing each on time and within budget constraints.
  • Fostered a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging staff to share innovative ideas and providing resources for professional development.
  • Assisted senior leadership in managing all aspects of operations.
  • Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions.
  • Planned, created, tested and deployed system life cycle methodology to produce high quality systems to meet and exceed customer expectations.
  • Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.

Senior Data Engineer

ThoughtFocus
05.2018 - 01.2020
  • Niagara Bottling – Lead Data Engineer

Associate Projects

Cognizant
07.2014 - 05.2018
  • Carefirst – ETL Developer

Senior System Engineer

Infosys
08.2011 - 06.2014
  • Pepsico – ETL Developer

Education

B.Tech - Electronics & Telecommunication

Silicon Institute Of Technology
Odisha
04.2001 -

Skills

Team Collaboration and Leadership

Azureskills

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Synapse Analytics
  • ADLS
  • Purview
  • Azure Devops

Projectmanagement

Leading two PODs consisting of 14 members managing deliverables in two tracks in parallel, Proficiency in Stakeholder management with Strong communication skills, timely reporting of project status, effective backlog, RAID management and resource management. Expertise in Project roadmap preparation, Collaboration with different teams and business stakeholders, MVP build and showcase of deliverables. Identification of gaps and process improvement and technical improvement. Experience in both Agile and Waterfall model of delivery, Designed and built a Load Assurance Utility for automating data validation in different data hops in between layers. It has been adopted by 10+ data product teams across Westpac., Automated the Data wrangling and formatting process for Novartis SCOUT CRM Migration which has helped in data migration of 45+ countries in record time.

Dataexpertise

  • Design and building Data Platform
  • Decentralized Data Mesh/Data Product Architecture
  • Data Lakehouse/Data Lake/Data Warehouse
  • Data Governance focusing on Metadata Management, Master Data Management, Data Quality & Controls, Data Catalog, Data Dictionary
  • Strong Data Modeling using Erwin
  • Data Engineering using both ETL/ELT design

Accomplishments

  • Implemented automated Data Controls for data movement between different layers which got adopted by entire Data Platform teams.

Timeline

Senior Data Engineer

ThoughtFocus
05.2018 - 01.2020

Associate Projects

Cognizant
07.2014 - 05.2018

Senior System Engineer

Infosys
08.2011 - 06.2014

B.Tech - Electronics & Telecommunication

Silicon Institute Of Technology
04.2001 -

Associate Director, Data Modernization

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
1 2020 - Current
SOMANATH BEHERAAssociate Director