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Dharmaraja Anbalagan

Peoria,AZ

Summary

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience driving product development and enterprise architecture for large-scale, massively parallel distributed systems and real-time processing platforms. Brings 10 years of deep American Express experience (2012–2022), delivering high-impact marketing, AI-driven conversational commerce, account intelligence, and risk assessment platforms at enterprise scale. Proven expert in cloud-native and big data ecosystems, with extensive hands-on leadership across Google Cloud Platform, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and BigQuery, enabling advanced analytics and AI/ML initiatives. Recognized for building high-performance Data Lake and Data Warehouse platforms from the ground up, delivering real-time insights, automated data pipelines, and resilient, scalable architectures aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Director

Jenius Bank (SMBC Group)
10.2022 - Current
  • Platform & Engineering Leadership: Led multiple engineering teams to build and scale digital banking, marketing, and enterprise data platforms on Google Cloud Platform, enabling analytics, AI/ML, and regulatory reporting.
  • Cloud Foundation & Governance: Established enterprise data platforms from the ground up on GCP, defining standards for secure ingestion, DLP, secret management, and compliant data pipelines.
  • Scalable Data Architecture: Architected and governed a BigQuery-based Data Warehouse (Medallion Architecture) supporting 40+ TB of data and 3,000+ attributes for enterprise analytics and decision-making.
  • High-Volume & Real-Time Data Processing: Delivered ingestion platforms supporting 500+ data feeds, 2,000+ production DAGs, 10+ TB of data, and real-time event processing using Pub/Sub and webhooks.
  • Marketing & Risk Data Enablement: Led platforms supporting customer marketing (including direct mail targeting and attribution) and credit fraud risk analytics, enabling personalization, risk mitigation, and data-driven decisioning.
  • Cloud-Native & Compliance-Driven Delivery: Drove adoption of managed GCP services (BigQuery, Dataproc, Airflow, Apache Beam, Vertex AI, KMS) while partnering with business, risk, and compliance leaders to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable solutions.

Computer Manager (Client: American Express)

Impetus Technologies
02.2012 - 10.2022
  • AI & Conversational Commerce (C3IP): Managed the development of an AI-powered platform leveraging NLP to orchestrate conversations across Alexa, mobile chat, and IOT devices.
  • Predictive Insights (Laser): Led the 'Laser' project, exploiting transaction and behavioral data to deliver predictive servicing content to Card Members.
  • Decision Science (CMPH): Calculated complex variables based on Card Member Positive History to derive trend analysis for enhanced risk assessment and credit profiling.
  • Big Data Research: Led 'Consumer Relevance' initiatives using Hadoop and Hive to create new merchant-to-bonus category mappings, optimizing rewards for customers.
  • Team Leadership: Managed large global teams (onsite/offshore), handled resource planning, work allocation, and performance appraisals while reporting to executive leadership.

Technical Lead

Wipro Technologies
07.2010 - 02.2012
  • Loyalty Systems: Managed the 'Reward Zone' loyalty program for Best Buy, calculating reward points and certificates via a TIBCO-based Loyalty Engine.
  • Rule Engine Development: Designed and developed a complete Rule Engine to address network issues using Java and Agile methodologies.

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2008 - 07.2010
  • Enterprise Integration: Coordinated onsite/offshore teams for secure data repository implementations and web-based decision support systems.
  • Training & Mentorship: Led and trained a group of 25 ELT members in Java and advanced technical stacks.

Consultant

HCL Technologies
07.2005 - 01.2008

Delivered onsite SOA integration initiatives across Singapore, Australia, the UK, and Sweden, leveraging TIBCO and enterprise middleware technologies.

Education

Masters - Software Science

Periyar University
Tamil Nadu
01.2005

Skills

    Cloud & Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, BigTable , Dataflow , Dataproc , Vertex AI , GKE , Cloud Functions , Cloud Run , Cloud IAM , Secret Manager , Cloud KMS , Terraform

    Big Data & Streaming: Apache Spark , Hadoop , Hive , Kafka , HBase , MapReduce , Apache Beam , Storm , Airflow

    Programming & Frameworks: Java , Python , SQL , ShellScript, Spring Boot , Spring MVC , Spring Batch , RESTful Web Services , JavaScript , HTML , CSS

    Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL , Oracle , SQL Server , Couchbase , HBase , Elasticsearch , Redis , RabbitMQ , Solace , TIBCO BusinessWorks , JMS , MQ

    Application or Web Server: Tomcat, JBoss, Apache Web Server, Oracle Weblogic

    AI / ML & NLP: Generative AI , Gemini LLM , Agentic AI , Vertex AI , Stanford NLP , Mahout

    DevOps & Engineering Tools: CI/CD , Azure DevOps , Git , Docker , Maven , Kubernetes , Splunk , Jupyter Notebooks

    Leadership & Professional Skills: Strategic Planning & Roadmapping , Project & Program Management , Engineering Design & Architecture , Coaching & Mentoring , Decision-Making & Problem Solving , Stakeholder & Executive Communication , Prioritization & Delivery Management

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Strategic Planning: Technology road-mapping, and alignment of technical strategy with business goals.
  • Quality & Compliance: Expert in UAT acceptance, quality audits, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Relationship Management: Proven ability to partner with executive leadership and cross-functional technical partners to push solutions forward.

Timeline

Engineering Director

Jenius Bank (SMBC Group)
10.2022 - Current

Computer Manager (Client: American Express)

Impetus Technologies
02.2012 - 10.2022

Technical Lead

Wipro Technologies
07.2010 - 02.2012

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2008 - 07.2010

Consultant

HCL Technologies
07.2005 - 01.2008

Masters - Software Science

Periyar University
Dharmaraja Anbalagan