Naga Gandham
Johns Creek,GA
Summary
17 years of IT experience as an architect/administrator of business intelligence tools- Cognos Analytics, Planning Analytics, Tableau, and the Data Governance tool Collibra DIP, Collibra DQ and cloud services. Proficient in platform administration tasks, including installation, configuration, upgrade, monitoring, tuning, security, and problem resolution. Proficient in technical architecture and provides platform support within the area(s) of functional responsibility across enterprise data governance platforms. Apply experience as a technical specialist / design to support and maintain stability across the enterprise validated data quality platforms. Implemented and managed collibra Data quality solution at Bank of America. Lead collibra data quality implementation for incentive compensation data. Collaborate with business, IT, and data governance teams to understand Data Quality requirements and standards. Provide technical expertise and support to business users and IT teams regarding Collibra Data Quality capabilities. Served as a liaison between business and IT to implement Collibra DQ solution according to the DGO requirement. Installed and configured Collibra DQ product on prem servers (DEV/UAT/PROD/CONT). Collaborate with business users to identify data governance requirements and implement corresponding business rules. Developed use case on profiling features of Collibra DQ to analyze the data findings. Conduct data profiling and data quality analysis to ensure data accuracy and reliability. Involved in Collibra road map includes Collibra functionality, technology, and enhancements. Experienced in integrating Collibra technical architecture across Collibra Data intelligence Cloud, Job servers, Lineage Harvester and Collibra Edge. Trained business on Collibra DQ tool features and new capabilities and prepare documentation. Created architecture diagrams to implement data quality rules as per the business specification. Understand and apply knowledge related to the various cloud computing (AWS) and deployment models and present options to solve various use-cases. Proficient in AWS services EC2, Route53, certificate manager, VPC, NLB, ALB, Cloud health, Cloud Formation Templates, Lambda, Cloud health etc. Experienced technical expertise, guiding and mentoring team for any technical issues. Energetic and self-motivated team player with proven ability to work in both independent and team environments. Excellent communication skills - presentation, verbal and written.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
System Engineer
Bank of America
Kennesaw, GA
07.2024 - 06.2025
- Data quality platform lead role at Bank of America and implemented Collibra DQ solution for Incentive compensation data.
- Measured data according to the Data Quality dimensions to ensure reliability of data for the attributes- completeness, accuracy, consistency, uniqueness, validity and integrity.
- Meet business stake holders to understand the requirement to develop Data Quality rules.
- Created architecture diagrams for the rule requirement to compare the data between source and target with tables and columns information.
- Developed custom rules as per the business specification and mapping document.
- Analyzed the mapping documentation to understand the transformations applied for the data attributes to develop the rules.
- Implemented Collibra DQ solution for the ICM project in Bank of America.
- Connected to different data sources to profile the data to perform data quality checks based on the DQ dimensions – Accuracy, completeness, consistency, uniqueness etc.
- Compared Collibra Data Quality product releases and upgraded the environment to leverage new features.
- Trained business to familiarize Collibra DQ tool to understand the tool features for data quality.
- Established connections to various data sources (Oracle, Hadoop, SQL server etc...) to source the data for profiling within Collibra DQ UI.
- Create Datasets to profile the data from various sources (Hadoop Hive, Impala, Oracle, SQL server).
- Configured external assignment connection to service now product to track the findings with an incident and thus resolve the findings.
- Write simple and complex SQLs using Dataset overview to understand the data and develop logic for business rules.
- Dispositioned the rules breaks and work through the resolution for assigned data anomalies.
- Used parallel JDBC technique to partition the data for large volume of Data sets to distribute the records as part of the optimization.
- Utilized secondary dataset feature to compare data between cross functional databases.
- Connected to Postgres meta store of Collibra DQ to fetch data related to the number of rules passing/breaking with Datasets.
- Deployed Datasets and rules using APIs from one environment to another as an automated approach.
- Installed and configured Collibra DQ product on prem servers (DEV/UAT/PROD/CONT).
- Defined security groups on AD and mapped the groups to the corresponding Collibra roles to manage the security for user community.
- Configured pingmetadata.xml file onto Collibra DQ web servers and enabled required properties for users SSO login to Collibra DQ application.
- Deployed the datasets and rules from source to target environment manually and using APIs.
- Configured different data source connections (Hadoop, Oracle) to fetch the data for profiling in Collibra DQ environment.
- Troubleshoot issues related to the Collibra DQ environment and provide timely solution as per the SLAs.
- Configured SMTP to send/receive emails from Collibra DQ application.
- Enabled parallel jdbc on a particular column to evenly partition the data workloads in spark cluster.
- Converted free form SQL to Native SQL to query the database to profile the data. This is implemented due to performance issues with the underlying views.
- Leveraged API functionality to create Datasets.
- Exported and imported Datasets and rules using APIs from one environment to another.
- Configured condition-based alerts to trigger an alert for the breaking rules status.
- Imported certs onto web and agent servers to enable https for secure connection.
- Created support guide (run book) book to support and troubleshoot issues related to the environment and the process to be followed.
- Scheduled DQ jobs to profile the data and run the rules as per the data refresh and resolved DQ job issues if they are in submitted state.
Architect V
Prime Therapeutics
Eagan, MN
04.2023 - 03.2024
- Business Architect responsible for managing DGC, Collibra console, on prem job servers and edge servers to meet the data governance office requirements.
- Implemented Collibra solution and setup on prem job servers and edge as per the DGO requirement.
- Added new schemas on DGC to ingest metadata from various data sources – Snowflake, Athena, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3.
- Installed, Configured, and upgraded Collibra on prem job servers to match the DGC version.
- Installed and configured dedicated Tableau and data job servers to ingest tableau metadata into Collibra DGC.
- Manage multiple regions AWS hosted Collibra on prem environments and the architecture to meet data governance requirement.
- Extract diagnostic files from the Collibra console to troubleshoot and resolve DGC related issues to poll the jobs as per the scheduled.
- Assigned roles and responsibilities for assets such as business terms, reports, policies, databases, and systems and collaborate with subject matter experts and data owners across the organization.
- Enabled Key pair authentication for snowflake data sources on Collibra job servers to encrypt the communication between on premise job servers and Collibra DIC.
Sr BI Administrator
Mercedes Benz Financial Services – USA LLC
02.2023 - 03.2023
- Collaborate with data stewards, business users, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain solutions within the Collibra platform to meet business requirements
- Design and implement data governance workflows, data models, and data stewardship processes using Collibra
- Customize and configure Collibra components to integrate with existing systems and tools
- Write and optimize code, scripts, and configurations to extend the functionality of the Collibra platform
- Keep up to date with Collibra platform updates, best practices, and industry trends to continuously improve solutions
- Contribute to the overall data governance strategy and roadmap by offering insights and recommendations on Collibra expertise
Sr. Consultant, IT
Baxter International Inc.
Guadalajara
04.2022 - 12.2022
- Implemented Collibra solution on AWS cloud platform as per the DGO requirement.
- Coordinated with Collibra vendor to setup on prem job servers for each AWS region.
- Manage data catalogs, lineage, and metadata within Collibra, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data assets across the organization.
- Establish a comprehensive data governance framework, including governance structures, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes, to promote data stewardship and accountability.
- Streamline and govern existing data management processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices to enhance data quality, integrity, and security.
- Setup Collibra data catalog to ingest Tableau dashboards.
- Lead the implementation and configuration of Collibra Data Governance platform.
Consultant, IT
Baxter International Inc
09.2018 - 04.2022
- Implemented Collibra solution on AWS cloud platform as per the DGO requirement.
- Coordinated with Collibra vendor to setup on prem job servers for each AWS region.
- Manage data catalogs, lineage, and metadata within Collibra, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data assets across the organization.
- Establish a comprehensive data governance framework, including governance structures, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes, to promote data stewardship and accountability.
- Streamline and govern existing data management processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices to enhance data quality, integrity, and security.
- Setup Collibra data catalog to ingest Tableau dashboards.
- Lead the implementation and configuration of Collibra Data Governance platform.
Associate Manager
Baxter Innovations & Business Solutions Ltd
Bangalore
04.2015 - 09.2018
- Played key role as Associate. Manager in (Baxter India Pvt Ltd) to manage enterprise platforms and Infra services as technical and operations manager.
- Cognos Administrator/Technical lead for Cognos environments platform activities.
- Point of contact for global platforms for any issues.
- Mentored team to improve technical efficiency to manage Cognos platform issues.
- Handled multiple portfolios for enterprise platforms (Cognos Admin, Remedy, Control-M, Data mirror, DataStage, WebSphere, MS- Exchange server.)
Data Engineer (Specialist)
HP Global Soft Private Limited
Chennai
01.2011 - 04.2015
- Production support – maintaining the Cognos Servers on Production, UAT and Dev environments and ensuring Cognos services availability.
- Responsible for creating User groups and roles to manage security via LDAP and providing access rights for the end users.
- Developed packages, folders, and Reports from a development environment to Testing and Production environment.
- Co-ordination with onsite team, DBAs, and other related teams to resolve issues in Cognos Reports and cubes, Tables, Access.
Analyst
Bank of America
08.2008 - 06.2011
- Designed & developed reports using various templates like List reports, crosstab reports using Report Studio.
- Setup Users/Roles and Hierarchies in Cognos Namespace - LDAP as per User requests.
- Handled server restarts and resolved issues related to the environment availability to business.
- Performed change code movement from one environment to another (DEV-UAT-PROD) daily as per the BP requirement on UNIX environment.
- Administered tasks such as Scheduling and Deployment using Autosys tool.
- Supported the Merrill lynch environment and thus having the hands-on experience in handling the multiple environments. Supported the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch business till the integration is completed.
- Applied patches to the servers as per the vendor recommendation to fix the outstanding issues.
Education
Graduated - Computer Science
Andhra University
06-2002
Skills
- Collibra Data Quality : 202505, 202406
- Collibra DGC : Collibra DGC 202411 and prior versions, Job server, Collibra DQ, Edge
- BI Tools : Cognos Analytics, Planning Analytics, Tableau
- Data Base : Oracle, SQL server, Snowflake, Amazon RDS, OCI, PostgreSQL
- OS : Windows, Linux
- Automation : Jenkins, PowerShell and Python
- Change management : Service now and Remedy
- Cloud : AWS, IBM Cloud
Certification
- Data governance learning path – Collibra university
- Collibra Integration Engineer – Collibra university
- Collibra platform administrator – Collibra university
- Collibra Solution Architect - Collibra university
- IBM Cognos Certified Administrator
- AWS certified cloud practitioner
Timeline
System Engineer
Bank of America
07.2024 - 06.2025
Architect V
Prime Therapeutics
04.2023 - 03.2024
Sr BI Administrator
Mercedes Benz Financial Services – USA LLC
02.2023 - 03.2023
Sr. Consultant, IT
Baxter International Inc.
04.2022 - 12.2022
Consultant, IT
Baxter International Inc
09.2018 - 04.2022
Associate Manager
Baxter Innovations & Business Solutions Ltd
04.2015 - 09.2018
Data Engineer (Specialist)
HP Global Soft Private Limited
01.2011 - 04.2015
Analyst
Bank of America
08.2008 - 06.2011
Graduated - Computer Science
Andhra University
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