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Bala Govi

Jacksonville,FL

Summary

Experienced Certified Information Management Professional (CIMP) with a strong background in information technology and data management. Skilled in enterprise-level functions and hands-on technology development. Deep understanding of complex data management requirements in today's regulatory landscape, specializing in Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Security, and more. Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner with expertise in AWS and Google Cloud Computing, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and Data Ops. PMC-I Certified with a proven track record in management and leadership roles.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Information Architect – Data Governance

Elevance
12.2022 - Current
  • Conduct data analysis and profiling to identify data quality issues, determine their root causes, and recommend strategies for remediation.
  • Oversee, direct colleagues, and participate in delivery of data governance activities including creation of data inventories and adherence to data policies, controls, and audits.
  • Responsible for intake process, ensuring all requests or issues are handled in a timely manner and assigned to appropriate parties for review, resolution, and escalation.
  • Provide guidance and support to data stewards and data owners in their data management responsibilities.
  • Design and implement data governance processes, including data quality, data classification, data lineage, metadata management, data cataloging, business glossaries and data security.
  • Strategically driven professional with expertise in DG tool implementation. Passionate about optimizing processes and enhancing efficiency.
  • Proven track record of successfully leading and managing diverse teams (Data Analysts, Data Stewards, Data Quality, and MDM/Metadata Analysts) of 10+ resources, both onshore and offshore.
  • Have strong background in Data Governance, with experience in both On-Prem and Cloud environments.

Senior IT Application Architect – Data Governance

Florida Blue
01.2021 - 12.2022
  • Lead the Enterprise Data Services team for the technical design efforts and manage the implementation for various domains.
  • Experience in supporting the business and IT to deliver the ongoing data quality and data governance activities.
  • Experience in configuring/onboarding the Axon and EDC including Business Glossaries, Dashboards, Maps, Policies and Databases
  • Primarily engaged in identifying key data elements and worked on the end-to-end lineage and impact analysis.
  • Translated business requirements (BRS) into functional specifications.
  • Documented technical design document (TDD), Architecture Overview Design (AOD), EDC Playbook, EDC-Axon Runbook, Statement of Work (SOW)
  • Calibrate with PM on project parameters throughout the lifecycle with regards to scope, deliverables, and resourcing
  • Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks and technical constraints to optimize delivery of the solution based on the on the Technical Design Documentation
  • Collaborate with end users to define and assess application by understanding the current state of technology and propose an opportunity that create business value.
  • Act as a Subject Matter Expert in understanding the capabilities and limitations of the platform, and product (EDC, Axon and DEQ)
  • Leverage industry standard practices/solutions to implement the metadata system/architecture.
  • Develop and deliver effective presentations and other educational artifacts to communicate and promote the appropriate use of metadata.
  • Experience in extraction of data and metadata from various Heterogenous sources (Relational database, Flat Files, COBOL/VSAM Files, JSON/XML, MongoDB, Postgres, DB2 Sailfish).
  • Expertise in Data Quality dashboards for Data Quality monitoring.
  • Developed scalable, high-performance applications to support business growth and improve user experience.

Senior Information Architect - Metadata

CSX
03.2016 - 01.2021
  • Defined/Designed metadata management framework, which can be advantage at enterprise level to manage enterprise metadata of all the sources systems.
  • Maintained Enterprise Data Dictionary using ASG Rochade.
  • Collaborated with business partners to understand metadata needs.
  • Translated the business requirements to technical specifications for the development team.
  • Maintained and supported the interface between Rochdale Metadata Repository, Meta Glossary, and Becubic tools on development and production servers.
  • Responsible for the installation of upgrades/fixes and any new products, maintaining documentation for the installations, and general administration using Metability.
  • Load and analyze data into Becubic for Java and .NET related products and work with support on any errors that occur during that process.
  • Used the new Rochade Loader technique to federate the data from Becubic to Rochade.
  • Designed the development, implementation and support of many Compliance systems and effectively managed the CSX Business Glossaries.
  • Setup scanners to collect Metadata from Oracle (150+ DBs), DB2, Informatica, ER Studio, JAVA, COBOL, JCL, PL/SQL, Tableau and Business Objects.
  • Extensively used Rochade to perform end-to-end data lineage, CRUD and Impact analysis.
  • Administered application stacks and executed performance tuning to optimize session performance by eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Senior Information Architect - Data Quality

CSX
06.2012 - 01.2021
  • Worked on Data Ops, Data Virtualization and Data Strategy efforts.
  • Performed Gartner research and evaluated the Data Quality tools for our CSX DQ initiative, successfully lead the Proof of Concept, and played a vital role on selecting Enterprise Data Quality tool for CSX.
  • Lead the data management processes implementation: conducted stakeholder interviews, obtained executive sponsorship, connected project deliverables to the KPIs; established data assessment and correction procedures, established issue management and resolution as well as reporting and score carding processes.
  • Ability to share and communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources in clear concise language in the vernacular of each group.
  • Drive a culture of data quality and contribute to enhanced operational efficiency by continually seeking ways of improving work processes.
  • Developed Data Quality Policies, Guidelines, Standards and Best Practices, define metrics to measure, and refine the success of the Data Governance Program.
  • Created reusable transformation processors, expert in Data Profiling, Cleansing, Standardization and Advance Features.
  • Actively monitor data input processes, tools, metrics, and outcomes to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness, and created user-friendly reports.
  • Implemented Executive Data Quality Dashboards and Master Data Management (MDM) Dashboards for CSX Senior Team using Tableau Enterprise.

Senior Information Architect - Data Design

CSX
06.2012 - 01.2021
  • Created conceptual, logical, and physical data models within the context of the Enterprise and Line of Business Information Architecture, used IDERA ER-Studio to create and maintain the models.
  • Collected, outlined, and refined requirements led design processes and oversee project progress.
  • Provides technical consulting to application development teams during application design, user journey and development for highly complex or critical projects.
  • Worked with Data Governance committee, recruit data stewards from the line of business and departments, and work with them to ensure data standards across the organization.
  • Knowledge of how to assess the performance of data solutions, how to diagnose performance problems, and tools used to monitor and tune performance.
  • Created DA common naming standards, best practices and improved visibility and understanding of enterprise data to business and development teams by initiating and creating DA home page on confluence; highly received and valued by teams.
  • Recognized by management for providing exceptional customer service.

Senior Business Intelligence Lead

CSX
06.2002 - 06.2020
  • Provide estimations for ETL deliverables and oversee the progress for quality ETL deliverables.
  • Designed and Developed Reusable Common Objects shared across various repositories.
  • Worked extensively on Informatica partitioning when dealing with large volumes of data and partitioned the tables in Oracle for optimal performance.
  • Identified bottlenecks with the mapping and improve the performance by using pushdown optimization.
  • Successfully implemented BI/Data Warehousing using Informatica applications/Oracle Hyperion cubes/Business Objects to meet needs of users.
  • Implemented Tableau Dashboards for Analytical reports including Executive Dashboard for senior team.
  • Coordinated between development and QA teams as well as assisted in testing and implementing various applications and related conversions as required.
  • Assisted in documenting overall data conversion process as well as prepared clear and concise status reports for management personnel as required.
  • Received Chairman's Award, Service Delivery Excellence Award, and 10+ Thanks Awards.

Education

Bachelor's in Computer - Information Technology

University of Madras
TamilNadu, India
05.1997

Skills

  • Data Quality – Oracle Enterprise Data Quality v12 (OEDQ), Informatica Data Engineering Quality (DEQ), Collibra DQ and DQ 360 Cloud Solution
  • Data Modeling - ER/Studio Data Architect 1803, Erwin
  • Database(s) - Oracle, MS-SQL Server, IBM DB2, Hive, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MySQL
  • NoSQL Databases - MongoDB, Dynamo DB
  • Data Analytics/Visualization - Tableau 2020, Looker, and Domo
  • Business Intelligence - Business Objects, Web Intelligence Reports, Crystal Reports, Informatica v9 (ETL), Data Stage (ETL)
  • Data Governance/Catalog – Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) and Axon – Business Glossary
  • Languages - HTML, SQL, PL/SQL, CSS, XML, XSLT, XPATH, CSS, JavaScript, Knowledge in JAVA, Python and R scripting
  • Big Data - Hadoop, Map Reduce, HDFS, Pig and Sqoop
  • Metadata Technologies - Data Intelligence v9x, ASG-Rochade, ASG-Becubic, Solr and Informatica EDC
  • Methodologies - TOGAF, Ralph Kimball’s Data Modeling, Star and Snowflake Schema Modeling, OOAD
  • Web/Application Servers - IBM Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat
  • CRM/ERP - Clarify, Siebel, Oracle EBS Financials and PeopleSoft

Certification

CIMP - Certified Information Management Professional

Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner a

PMC-I Certified

Certified AI Governance

Timeline

Senior Information Architect – Data Governance

Elevance
12.2022 - Current

Senior IT Application Architect – Data Governance

Florida Blue
01.2021 - 12.2022

Senior Information Architect - Metadata

CSX
03.2016 - 01.2021

Senior Information Architect - Data Quality

CSX
06.2012 - 01.2021

Senior Information Architect - Data Design

CSX
06.2012 - 01.2021

Senior Business Intelligence Lead

CSX
06.2002 - 06.2020

Bachelor's in Computer - Information Technology

University of Madras

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