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Pradeep Katta

Basking Ridge,NJ

Summary

Experienced IT professional with proven track record in leadership roles like HR Data Engineering portfolio head, Gen AI Initiatives leader, Head of Tooling and Platforms, Lead Data Architect, Technology Head of Data Governance, and Sr. App Dev. Manager. Successfully delivered impactful projects and transformative initiatives to enhance employee engagement and operational efficiency. Spearheaded development of cutting-edge global HR portal and content/data management platform benefiting over 210,000 employees and 40,000 managers and HR professionals worldwide. Skilled in creating comprehensive application architectural solutions from strategy to implementation, collaborating with external vendors and business entities across various organizational verticals. Tech-savvy innovator with hands-on approach to emerging technologies, continuously seeking opportunities for technological enhancements and implementing effective solutions to drive productivity. Adaptable to fast-paced environments, excelling in driving technological advancements forward while serving as technical advisor to executive leadership on data governance strategy and investment assessments in related tooling. Deep understanding of metadata management, data lineage tracking, data cataloging, and data classification frameworks with experience in policy inception and implementation discussions. Demonstrated success leading cross-functional data initiatives across engineering, legal, security, analytics, and business units with strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills — capable of translating complex technical governance concepts for non-technical audiences.

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2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Head of Data Governance Representing Technology || Head of Data Engineering Tooling and Platform || Cloud Solutions Data Architect

Citigroup
01.2013 - Current
  • Worked with the AI Council to come up with use cases for AI implementation across the portfolio. These included design and development of Executive Management Team dashboards like Attrition, Human Capital (to name few of them). These dashboards were designed and developed by using Google Vertex LLM’s.
  • Extensive knowledge in design and development of reporting products by integrating data into analytics platforms for projects such as machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • Focus on ROI, benefits in all AI Implementations. Articulated and discussed strategies for broader usage of AI tools across the portfolio, AI tools such as Github CoPilot, Stylus, Workspaces etc. Articulated ROI, business impact
  • Deep working of knowledge in usage of R2D2 platform for using external AI Models such Meta LLaMa, Google Vertex, Anthropy Claude.
  • Responsible for leading, designing and implementation of scalable, secure, and policy-compliant data governance data products and associated tooling across the businesses while also aligning with enterprise architecture strategy. Ensured high-quality metadata management, data lineage, classification, and access control by integrating various HR tools with. Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams, architecture, legal, and product owners to deliver governance solutions that underpin enterprise data reliability, security, and compliance. Demonstrates leadership in executing IT plans successfully that enable technical or business capabilities and address technology or business priorities
  • Worked with various stakeholders including Treasury and Trade Services, Risk and Compliance, Enterprise Data Office, Enterprise Data Governance team, Data Management and various businesses to streamline, optimize and modernize Data Products and related infrastructure. This included working with multiple teams including Application Managers, Solution Architects, Vendors and leadership.
  • Help establish Data Governance frameworks across enterprise with daily Interactions with Federated Chief Data Office, Enterprise Chief Data Office and Senior Leaders to help seniors leaders to establish data standards and strategies
  • Data Architecture – Enabled through provisioning of single unified platform.
  • Data Quality – Enabled through defining product controls, process controls, defining Critical Data Elements and defining rules to determine the quality of these Critical Data Elements when they are run through the business processes.
  • Data Privacy and Security – Enabled through IAM and RBAC/ABAC frameworks.
  • Data Catalog, Data Lineage, Master Data Reference – Enabled through strategic selection of custom tooling and off the shelf products, like ICG Data Catalog, Collibra
  • Creation and implementation of processes to identify, monitor, and mitigate data risks, including protection, retention, and quality.
  • Establish and maintain collaborative partnerships with stakeholders to enhance data understanding and quality. Extensive knowledge in vendor technologies in data and AI / MI (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Cloud, data mesh architecture, data quality, data lineage, data catalog, data transport, document digitization, LLM models, etc)
  • Cloud Solutions Data Architect - Directing engagement in Strategic Planning, Project Planning, & Ongoing Operations to ensure IT alignment with business goals. Led integration efforts for key enterprise applications and platforms, ensuring seamless data exchange and functionality across systems
  • Led multiple teams to migrate data systems to the cloud (Snowflake), reducing infrastructure costs by 45% over a period of 4 years. Cloud platforms include AWS and GCP.
  • Worked with lead data architects and finalized a data lake solution for the organization, consolidating data from multiple sources, ensuring data quality and consistency with CI feeds into a single unified platform.
  • Mentoring a team of architects, working closely with other IT leaders, project managers, and business stakeholders to ensure successful solution implementation
  • Pipeline re-engineering involving Ab-Initio and SnowPipe ingestion pipelines.
  • Mentored and worked with extended team members to publish buy vs build decisions, and determining on-prem vs cloud tenancy for relevant functions.
  • Extensive hands on knowledge in metadata management, data governance, data lineage and data dictionary
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders and engineers to define data requirements and ensure the scalability and security of data pipelines.
  • Collaborated with data scientists to clean, validate, and preprocess data for machine learning algorithms, ensuring data readiness for predictive models.
  • Overseeing the design of scalable and secure enterprise architectures that meet business needs and adhere to industry standards and best practices.
  • Good overall understanding of various technology tools and emerging trends.
  • Some of the in-house custom tools architected, designed and developed within my organization are below
  • (1) Data Marketplace – A Custom Interface allowing different personas subscribe and consume “Data Products”
  • Designed Microservices based architecture and implemented Data Product Marketplace where consumers including regulatory users using reporting tools, legal, other domain users and applications could come and subscribe to Data Products based on their entitlements and / or data classification, all through using API’s.
  • This system integrated into multiple Governance tools like Enterprise Data Catalog hosting Metadata and Lineage Information, Workforce Data Controls hosting privacy information and Operating Facts Manager hosting Data Owner Information.
  • Starburst was the federated query engine which sourced data from multiple source systems and presented a unified view with combination of data in a single unified view. This unified was enriched with metadata information from Enterprise Data Catalog and presented on Custom built Data Marketplace User Interface.
  • Experience in working with IAM and RBAC/ABAC frameworks to enforce data access policies across diverse user roles.
  • (2) Global Workforce Data Controls and (3) Worker Data Lookup (Privacy Governance Tooling)
  • Regular interaction with Risk & Compliance teams, whiteboard session on implementation and adoption strategy. I interacted with audit and regulators as part of ongoing efforts to mitigate risk associated with data in motion
  • Incremental work in progress to enhance Global Workforce Data Control tool to include new tech features and requirements which would enable data governance requirements as prescribed by CDO. This includes implementing solutions for high volume data ingestions components and ETL solutions to import data from various internal sources.
  • In depth analysis of current data dictionaries, probable solutions for managing and keeping up with the data quality.
  • Have been partnering with data publishers and data consumers and working with them to document the Data Consumption process between systems of records or an authorized repository details from which data is published for the consumer.
  • Designed, developed and provisioned technical solutions for enabling end to end data consumption thus enabling data lineage and data cataloging. Ongoing efforts for continuous enhancement and enablement of features.
  • Involved in working with data owners and data custodians to come up with a reliable and repeatable process to manage an already existing centralized data element repository. Working to align with newly revised Citi Data Governance Policy, data processes and organizational changes relevant with data management and standards within Citi.
  • As part of broader work, we have been engaged and working on aligning with CDGP to facilitate Citi’s business strategy thus effectively managing risk associated with data.
  • I have been working with data owners and data consumers on implementing better governance strategies, especially around Data in Rest and Data in motion. This is ongoing work and will be aligned with overall data policies.

Application Architect || Lead Technical Engineer || IT and Business Strategy

Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications
01.2011 - 01.2013
  • Overall tech lead along with one more colleague for SharePoint platform architecture, portal structure, site content types, custom solutions involving SharePoint.
  • Introduced and came up with creative solutions using SharePoint security features involving claims-based authentication and enabling role based custom authorization using custom tags and user metadata, enabling different view modes for the same application based on custom enhanced user metadata.
  • Dev lead to front end development using Angular and other relevant tools.
  • Complex programming and creative solutions for addressing various challenges that come with customizing SharePoint cross lists and document repositories. Specific emphasis to site performance and availability was given.
  • Custom query syndication service was created and Implemented integration into third party tools like Omniture and Attivio Enterprise Search.
  • Extensive interaction with business users across different verticals and converting these requirements into technical solutions.
  • Extensive planning went into designing components for the portal to be used as Enterprise Content Management System including Site Collections, Sub Sites, Web Parts, Custom Scripts, Incoming Emails, Site Navigation, Managed Metadata, Content Types, Document Sets, Document ID’s , Enterprise Content Type Hubs.
  • Good knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, Jenkins, Harness, uDeploy, GitHub , DevSecOps tools like SonarQube, GitLab, Checkmarx, Black Duck, Logging, Monitoring tools ELK Stack, Splunk, AppDynamics.
  • The City of New York operates the largest E9-1-1 emergency communications system in the United States, handling more than 11 million calls per year. The City's E9-1-1 system is supported by various services, systems, and operations provided by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), which include Fire Dispatch and Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD). While there is coordination of call management services, these three operations historically have been managed independently, both geographically and technically. In early 2004, the City of New York began an initiative titled the Emergency Communications Transformation Program (ECTP) to consolidate its emergency communications services, specifically the Call Taking and Dispatch functions for the NYPD and FDNY public safety agencies, into cohabited facilities supported by integrated systems.
  • Responsibilities
  • Worked with business owners (NYPD, FDNY, Verizon, Lockheed and Northrop Grumman) to gather requirements and design solutions around those requirements from Data storage, processes, governance, risk, issues management and document management perspective. Point person for working with the business teams to consolidate and come up with solutions which could meet business challenges.
  • Introduced concepts of Information Architecture, Site Taxonomy, Site Quota templates, Data Lifecycle Management, Custom Navigation, Site Content Categorization, and Security while implementing easy to use solutions for the program.
  • Created and implemented extensive Architectural Artifacts related to Portal GOVERNANCE, POLICIES and PROCEDURES that direct, and control how the program’s various work streams, external agencies and vendors collaborate to achieve business goals.
  • Worked with DOT infrastructure leads, IT Security Team, Enterprise Content Management Team to design and develop IT solutions, which while considering the size for New York City is very big and challenging.
  • Developed detailed project plan, technology strategy for migrating multiple program teams to the new SharePoint 2010 FARM, mapped program requirements, and prepared estimates, analyzed Risks and Issues that might arise because of this migration. Implemented workflows to meet various business requirements.
  • Implemented solutions using SharePoint Best Practices, standards and frameworks. created custom Content Types, Managed Metadata for tagging and categorizing content within portal
  • Used business intelligence tools like Dashboard Designer (SP 2010), Excel Services, KPI’s and Scorecards
  • Continual process improvements around the automation wherever possible including Automation of Vendor Management; Risks and Issues Dashboard; User Activity Logging; Process Workflows; Document Retention Policies; integration of Web Portal
  • Confirmed that portal adhered to program Audit requirements, reviewing all the permissions and all other related material that may be needed for Audit
  • Implemented a ticketing system for reporting and escalating any SharePoint related exceptions and errors.
  • Extensive R&D on third party tools like which may be helpful for the program
  • Created training plans (including Lunch and Learn Sessions), trained end users including users from FDNY, NYPD and vendors on any new upcoming implementations and solutions
  • Extensive documentation for each solution being implemented and SharePoint Standards and best practices
  • Environment:
  • Business Intelligence tools: Dashboard Designer, KPIs and scorecards. Enterprise Content Management Systems, SharePoint 2013/2010/2007, SharePoint Designer 2007/2010, SharePoint Web Services, Workflows. Development tools: Visual Studio 2010/2012, ASP.NET 3.5/4.0, XML, HTML, XSLT, JavaScript, JSON, CSS, VBA, MS PROJECT.

Sr. App Developer || Sr. Analyst

JP Morgan Chase
06.2009 - 09.2011
  • Involved in full lifecycle in architecting, planning and implementing large scale scalable enterprise solutions, information architecture and applications
  • Extensive involved in using systems analysis and design methodology and an excellent understanding of industry trends and tools
  • Worked closely in laying out the parameters for infrastructure, functional and technical requirements from SharePoint perspective. Involved in interaction with business teams and other relevant teams to understand the requirements and put in the technical solution likewise.
  • Extensively involved in designing the taxonomy of the SharePoint farm including deciding upon the hierarchy of the sites, number of site collections, web applications and farm topology
  • Operated and worked with global offshore teams, extensive experience in managing and handling offshore teams, comprehensive understanding on working models with offshore teams, weekly meetings, status updates, coordinating releases
  • Created project plans and implemented MOSS 2007 (SP1, SP2) Migration to SharePoint 2010 including customizations, web parts, SharePoint solutions
  • Complete end to end design and implementation as part of migration and upgrade including Web Layers, Application Layer, BI Layer and Database Layer for all the environments including Dev, QA, UAT and Production.
  • Pre-Production release testing and implementation details
  • Implemented Physical to Virtual server Migrations of the farm. Involved in implementing DR for the SharePoint farm, configuring backup and restore of SharePoint farm using PowerShell and Central Administration
  • Designed engagement workflow strategy, procedures and process documents for working with various teams.
  • Extensive work on capacity planning, designing, deployment planning, pre-production testing, installation, configuration and maintenance of the environments postproduction release.
  • Installed and configured various environments like the Development, QA and UAT and worked to resolve certain ports and firewall issues.
  • Set the standards for deployment and permissions provisioning and creating managed accounts
  • Extensive knowledge of Enterprise Content Types, Content Type Hub, Managed Metadata, and information architecture
  • Knowledge of Document and Record Management and implementing best practices
  • Strong understanding of applicable programming methodologies and good understanding of SharePoint Object Model
  • Developed and implemented SharePoint workflows, InfoPath forms for internal use
  • Created project plans and implemented application migrations from SQL Server Databases / SSAS / SSIS 2005 to SQL Server 2008
  • Generate reports as part of availability management, capacity management and take remedial actions if required
  • Extensive knowledge of SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search services, crawler configuration, and scopes
  • Good communication skills with the ability to communicate (verbally and written) to all levels of the business
  • Excellent team player with a proven background of individual contribution
  • Worked with “Vignette CMS”, working of various migration tools like DocAve, AvePoint, Vamosa, Jira for bug tracking, SubVersion for source control.
  • Environment:
  • SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer, VMware Esser Hosts, MOSS 2007,Workflows, InfoPath, XML, HTML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Reporting Services, SSIS, AJAX, WWF, WCF, DocAve, AvePoint, Jira

Sr. Developer

Liberty Mutual
05.2005 - 04.2009
  • Liberty Mutual is an Insurance company which has its presence in different countries providing insurance for auto, home and life. Its top management and designated employees used reports which were created using BRIO. Initially our priority was to create a business case for switching over from BRIO to Microsoft reporting technologies and then create complex dashboards for the users. One of the main dashboards was the Underwriting Dashboard. One of the driving forces behind the development of the Underwriting Dashboard was a need to consolidate a fragmented, time consuming process into one that is both is streamlined and user friendly. With a dashboard we simply click on the business subject of interest, select in the appropriate parameters for the desired report and view report. This dashboard contained hundreds of reports classified as Dashboard/KPI’s reports, Highest Summary reports, Lowest Summary reports and Details/Listing reports containing information about brokers, broker summary, broker activity and detailed information reports. This dashboard was created to provide a reporting tool that allows Underwriters to analyze and manage their portfolios at a high level while at the same time maintaining the ability to access the detailed information required the day-day operations of an insurance department.
  • This dashboard was in response to feedback that the existing application currently cannot capture a comprehensive picture of Broker performance. The application’s modern technology allows for the transformation of raw data gathered and performs complex analysis on the data captured. Similarly on the same grounds submissions dashboard and claims dashboard were created. Business data catalogs were extensively used to fetch data from SAP servers and to present the data as metadata instances to third party tools and display it to the end users after processing and formatting it.
  • Responsibilities
  • Involved in interacting with business users, gathering business requirements. Worked with technical leads and project managers to gather and discuss strategies for implementation.
  • Worked with business analysts to define functional specifications, user interface and screen specifications including system interface requirements, reports, queries, data extracts.
  • Worked on all the aspects for development and production pertaining to installation and administration of Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Portal Server.
  • Involved in configuring the web parts gallery and configuration settings required for integrating the reports in the SharePoint portal server, creating the appropriate infrastructure for publishing environment in the SharePoint Portal.
  • Extensive usage of InfoPath forms and Excel Services Shared Services, involved in deployment and maintenance of these solutions.
  • Involved in creation of multidimensional cubes using Microsoft analysis services.
  • Involved in creation of reports and applications supporting these reports in .net technologies.
  • Sole person responsible for creation of user interface in C#.net and integrating report builder, web services into the application.
  • Complex queries including stored procedures, SSIS packages, functions and triggers were created.
  • Sole person responsible for maintaining and configuring the report manager.
  • Involved in improving performance of cubes using SQL profiler.
  • Involved in preparing, implementing and documenting SQL Server Security.
  • Maintained the report manager including security, subscriptions and other policies.
  • Involved in configuration settings for remote administration of the SharePoint Portal Server, creating the configuration settings and various accounts for various services, configuring the search settings including the crawl accounts, content access accounts
  • Worked extensively assigning various permissions to different users and managing user groups and cross site permissions.
  • Extensive work on deploying the SharePoint solutions including InfoPath solutions, features, custom application definition files for business data catalogs, integrating Report centers onto SharePoint Portal Server, integrating KPI and dashboards on Office SharePoint Server using excel services, Integrating report managers and reports servers with SharePoint servers.
  • Involved in moving the dashboards to Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007. Extensive work on configuring security settings for the portal server Special documents and list libraries for storing reports, lists and connections to external data sources including SQL Server and Oracle.
  • Web part templates containing dashboards and KPI were created.
  • Involved in giving training to other new team members in reporting services.
  • Involved in creating technical documentation.
  • Environment:
  • SharePoint 2007/2010, WSS 3.0 , Visual Studio, SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, SSIS, Web Services, C#.net, AJAX, ASP.net 2.0, WCF, WWF,XSLT, JavaScript, CSS Visual Source Safe

Web Developer

Tennessee Technological University
09.2003 - 05.2005
  • Also provided Independent Consulting Services as Technical SME
  • Microsoft and Web Technologies

Microsoft Technologies & SharePoint SME

Merck

SQL Server Reporting Services SME, SharePoint Developer

Berlitz Corporation

Education

Master’s - computer sciences

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN
05.2005

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

S.K.P Engineering College, Madras University
Madras, In
07.2003

Skills

  • Web technologies: Angularjs, jQuery, bootstrap
  • Data Governance: Data Quality, Master Data Reference and Metadata Management, Data Privacy and Security, Data Lineage, Data virtualization, Data Federation Technologies
  • API development
  • Business intelligence, Reporting Tools
  • Critical thinking, Organizational skills
  • Data integration
  • Critical thinking
  • Organizational skills
  • Excellent communication
  • Decision-making
  • Relationship building
  • Task prioritization
  • Goal setting
  • Continuous improvement
  • Project management

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist .Net Framework 3.5
  • ITIL V3 Foundation

Timeline

Head of Data Governance Representing Technology || Head of Data Engineering Tooling and Platform || Cloud Solutions Data Architect

Citigroup
01.2013 - Current

Application Architect || Lead Technical Engineer || IT and Business Strategy

Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications
01.2011 - 01.2013

Sr. App Developer || Sr. Analyst

JP Morgan Chase
06.2009 - 09.2011

Sr. Developer

Liberty Mutual
05.2005 - 04.2009

Web Developer

Tennessee Technological University
09.2003 - 05.2005

Microsoft Technologies & SharePoint SME

Merck

SQL Server Reporting Services SME, SharePoint Developer

Berlitz Corporation

Master’s - computer sciences

Tennessee Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

S.K.P Engineering College, Madras University

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