Professional Summary Enterprise Data & Platform Leader with 20+ years guiding large-scale data transformations across Mortgage, Finance, Insurance, Retail, and Public Sector. set the vision and roadmap for modern, secure, and cost-efficient data platforms, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver them. Core strengths span Snowflake, Hadoop, SQL Server EDW, Databricks, Apache Iceberg, Elasticsearch, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and Lakehouse architectures (Bronze–Silver–Gold), with deep expertise in dimensional and transactional data modeling, streaming, and hybrid- cloud integration. I partner with executives to align data strategy to business outcomes, institute governance (RBAC/masking/lineage), and operationalize platforms for resilience, scalability, and cost control. A builder-coach by mindset, I develop talent, mature operating models devOps/CI/CD/DataOps), and evolve legacy estates—including mainframe and batch workloads—into cloud-ready, real- time ecosystems. Leadership Highlights • Define North-Star architectures and multi-year roadmaps; drive modernization from legacy Hadoop to Iceberg-based Lakehouse and Snowflake platforms. • Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary teams (architects, engineers, analysts) across onshore/offshore; establish standards, guardrails, and review rituals. • Translate business goals into data products and SLAs/OKRs; steward platform reliability, security, and spend optimization. • Deliver mission-critical EDW, streaming, and real-time analytics using SQL Server EDW, Hadoop Data Lake, Lakehouse, and Snowflake Medallion patterns. • Institutionalize governance and compliance: role/attribute-based access, masking, lineage, quality controls, and auditability. • Orchestrate vendor and platform ecosystems; simplify toolchains (DBT, Snowpark, OpenFlow) and scale CI/CD for data. Leadership Core Competencies • Platform Strategy & Architecture Leadership • Enterprise Data Warehousing • Data Lake & Lakehouse Modernization • Modeling Governance • Data Governance • Data Engineering Enablement • BI & Decision Intelligence • Security & Compliance • Cloud & Platform Operations • Mainframe & Legacy Modernization • SDLC & Delivery Excellence • People Leadership • AI-Assisted Productivity
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