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Vetrivel Raju

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Dynamic and solution-oriented Technical Architect with 19+ years of experience leading large-scale data integration, analytics, and cloud modernization programs. Proven expertise in customer-facing solution architecture, pre-sales support, and post-sales enablement across enterprise clients. Extensive background in data engineering, ELT/ETL pipelines, and cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS, and GCP. Adept in modern data stack tools and experienced in building scalable data architectures using Qlik-like tools, Talend, Snowflake, and BigQuery. Passionate about bridging business requirements with technical solutions to accelerate customer adoption and value realization.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Solution Architect

QlikTech India Pvt. Ltd
12.2024 - Current
  • Lead customer engagements and enterprise solutioning across cloud data integration projects.
  • Advised on ingestion pipelines and transformation architectures, resembling Qlik Sense and Qlik Talend use cases.
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams in pre-sales, POCs, and technical demonstrations.
  • Defined roadmap for hybrid cloud data solutions aligned to business KPIs.
  • Lead the architectural vision, design, and implementation of a wide variety of enterprise systems, including cloud-based solutions and on-premises integrations.
  • Spearheaded the architectural design for large-scale solutions for clients in financial services, improving time-to-market by 30%.
  • Collaborated with business leaders and IT teams to design and deliver highly available, scalable, and secure systems.
  • Provided technical leadership and mentorship to junior architects and engineers, driving best practices in solution design.
  • Established governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements across solutions.

Senior Principal Architect

LTIMindtree Limited
06.2021 - 07.2024
  • Experienced in designing, implementing, and managing complex cloud architectures and solutions.
  • Expertise in leading cloud transformations, driving technical strategies, and architecting scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructures using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Spearheaded AI and ML-driven data engineering projects for global enterprises under the Data Intelligent & AI Practice.
  • Architected intelligent systems for fraud detection, HR predictive analytics, AI lineage tracking, and supply chain optimizations using machine learning algorithms and big data platforms.
  • Led integration of advanced AI/ML models into enterprise systems, leveraging Azure Machine Learning, AWS SageMaker, Databricks MLflow.
  • Built scalable AI-based data pipelines for real-time predictive analytics using Spark, Azure Databricks, and Kafka.
  • Collaborated with C-suite stakeholders to define AI-driven transformation strategies aligned to business outcomes.
  • Oversaw ML model deployment and monitoring strategies to ensure explainability, fairness, and performance.
  • Enabled delivery managers and architects to adopt AI-first solution mindsets and methodologies.

Associate Director

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
01.2020 - 05.2021
  • Perform architecture design, data modeling, and implementation of Data Lake as a Big Data platform to drive Personalization, marketing and analytics applications.
  • Design, architect and build highly scalable and extensible Customer Data Lake to enable collection, storage, modeling, and analysis of massive Customer data comprising of tags, webserver logs, social media and related data elements in its raw format and make it accessible for data mining and analytics.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate highly technical concepts in business terms and articulate value of adopting Big Data technologies.
  • Hands-On Experience in architecture and implementation of large and highly complex projects.
  • Ensure alignment of the high-level architecture with the existing client need and business logic / review design prepared by architects.
  • Ensured technical integration ability, requirements compliance of the solution, especially in case of a multi group / multi-vendor program. Involved external partners / horizontals as appropriate.

Senior Solution Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
Bangalore
08.2017 - 01.2020
  • Solution Architecture, initial project planning, Development of project scope, defining project guidelines, Resource coordination (internal and contracted), Testing coordination.
  • Manage project plans and project resource requirements and budget.
  • Provide guidance to solution architect around usage of patterns/anti patterns in the solution.
  • Ensured CTS architecture principles and QA (Quality of Architecture) are maintained; Analyze tradeoffs and provide recommendations, if any, on the solution architecture.
  • Identify opportunities for efficiency improvements (e.g., automation), risk reduction in the transformation process.
  • Understand the various work streams and the technologies necessary to deliver large programs.
  • Resolved any issues based on industry expertise / partner’s leverage.
  • Proactively worked in identification & management of technical risks.
  • Support the development of business case for investments for approval from senior management.

Big Data Solution Architect / Project Manager

IBM India Private Limited
Bangalore
03.2016 - 08.2017
  • Handling IBM Architect and delivery team for Big Data services, strategy engagements with our existing and new customers in Big Data space.
  • RFP, Defense pitch, Big Data sales pitch and strategies, engage with customers and provide solution design, consulting and recommendations.
  • Provide consulting to customers in identifying Big Data use cases and then guiding them towards implementation of use cases.
  • Big Data strategic planning, technology roadmap, talent acquisitions and mentor team for cutting edge technology competitiveness such as Hadoop, BigInsight, Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM Datastage (IIS), IBM SPSS, IBM Bluemix, HIVE, IBM Soft layer, HBase, Cassandra, AWS, Azure, Platfora, Datameer, Zaloni Bedrock, Trifacta, Spark, big data analytics, data visualizations.
  • Developed and implemented platform architecture as per established standards.
  • Formulated architectural plans for mitigation purposes.
  • Supported integration of reference architectures and standards.
  • Utilized Big Data technologies for producing technical designs.
  • Prepared architectures and blueprints for Big Data implementation.

Big Data Architect

Bitwise solution
Pune
06.2015 - 12.2015
  • Responsible designing, architecting, and implementing scalable and efficient data architectures for enterprise-level applications.
  • Expert in building and optimizing large-scale data platforms using Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and cloud technologies.
  • Proficient in leading teams, developing strategies for data-driven transformations, and creating robust data pipelines and architectures to support data analytics and business intelligence initiatives.
  • Information Technology Project Planning, Product Development Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Infrastructure Rollout Methodology.
  • Direct and manage projects from inception to completion applying methodologies listed above.
  • Estimate cost and schedule and deliver within the defined Project Delivery Performance targets.

Senior Hadoop Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
Bangalore
02.2014 - 06.2015
  • Responsible for performance designing and developing Big Data solutions.
  • Architected environments implementing and deploying the following technologies: (Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Tableau, Hadoop (Apache, Hive, Map Reduce, Java, Scala, Python, Pig); NoSQL Database solutions utilized within Big Data designs with data migration strategies developed for the following technologies (MongoDB, Casandra, HBase, Hadoop/Hive).
  • Lead the implementation of end-to-end Big Data solutions using the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Kafka) for large-scale clients.
  • Conduct assessments of existing data architecture and provide recommendations for Hadoop-based data processing strategies.
  • Implemented Spark for real-time analytics, processing streaming data from multiple sources (IoT, logs, social media).
  • Migrated legacy data systems to Hadoop, reducing processing time for batch jobs by 40%.

Software Engineer

Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
04.2006 - 02.2014
  • Part of performance designing and developing Big Data solutions.
  • Work with architected environments implementing and deploying the following technologies: (Apache Hadoop, Hive, Map Reduce, Sqoop, Oozie, Pig); NoSQL Database solutions utilized within Big Data designs with data migration strategies developed on HBase.
  • SQL Database is used to perform Big Data source data feeds into structured designs includes SQL Server 2012, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL DB.
  • FMX is a generic, simple, scalable, and consistent messaging system. FMX is designed to pump messages, generated on-the-fly from templates, Marketing, Service, Subscription (newsletters, price triggers, investors weekly, etc.), Internal (Corp Affairs, HR, Fidelity) and sends on average 4 million emails per day.
  • The data is replicated across 3 sites MMK, MRO and RTP through Oracle streams.
  • Hive tables designed with respect to their oracle tables.
  • MapReduce is used to implement complex business logic and usage of distributed cache.

Education

Master of Business Administration -

Bharathidasan University
Trichy
01.2008

B.Sc. - Information Technology

Bharathidasan University
Trichy
01.2004

Skills

  • Cloud architecture
  • Data integration
  • Machine learning
  • Enterprise systems
  • Big data platforms
  • Technical strategy
  • Solution design
  • Project management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Technical leadership
  • Problem solving
  • Effective communication
  • Team mentoring
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • IT governance
  • Big data technologies
  • Containerization technologies
  • DevOps practices
  • Application security
  • Business analysis
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Disaster recovery
  • Identity and Access management
  • Data modeling
  • Service level agreements
  • Continuous deployment
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Serverless architecture
  • Information security
  • Database design
  • Continuous integration
  • Performance tuning
  • Software development
  • Incident management
  • Network architecture
  • Stakeholder management
  • Storage solutions
  • Problem management
  • Scalability planning
  • Microservices architecture
  • Capacity planning
  • Business solutions prowess
  • Artificial intelligence implementation
  • Client relationship management
  • Systems design
  • Application modernization
  • Data integration strategies
  • Client engagement
  • Business solutions
  • Systems design analysis
  • Machine learning integration
  • Performance optimization
  • IT strategy development
  • Migration strategies
  • Customer implementation support
  • Delivery management processes
  • Enterprise architecture design
  • Cloud computing expertise
  • Requirements gathering
  • Process evaluation
  • Database upgrades
  • Commerce enterprise architectures
  • Software deployment support
  • Business process analysis
  • Technical project management
  • System integration planning
  • Web applications
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Collaboration framework
  • Big data solutions
  • Component integration
  • DevOps implementation

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Timeline

Principal Solution Architect

QlikTech India Pvt. Ltd
12.2024 - Current

Senior Principal Architect

LTIMindtree Limited
06.2021 - 07.2024

Associate Director

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
01.2020 - 05.2021

Senior Solution Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2017 - 01.2020

Big Data Solution Architect / Project Manager

IBM India Private Limited
03.2016 - 08.2017

Big Data Architect

Bitwise solution
06.2015 - 12.2015

Senior Hadoop Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
02.2014 - 06.2015

Software Engineer

Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd
04.2006 - 02.2014

Master of Business Administration -

Bharathidasan University

B.Sc. - Information Technology

Bharathidasan University

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