Prasanta Tripathy
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
Results-driven product leader with 19+ years delivering enterprise data platforms for Banking & Payments. Proven track record in AI-powered data governance, metadata management, and data quality — bridging technology and business to drive compliance, trust, and scalable data ecosystems. Skilled at leading cross-functional teams, managing full product lifecycles, and translating complex data challenges into high-impact solutions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Product Owner (Enterprise Data Management & Governance)
Discover Financial Services
04.2021 - Current
- Spearheaded cloud data governance strategy across cross-functional teams, achieving 30% improvement in data quality and compliance within the banking sector.
- Pioneered AI/ML-powered metadata management — automating discovery, tagging, and enrichment across enterprise assets, cutting manual effort by 40%.
- Deployed AI-driven data cataloging (Alation) across 100+ sources with intelligent classification, glossary linking, and ML-powered lineage auto-mapping.
- Championed Anomalo's ML-based anomaly detection, reducing data incidents by 35% and MTTR by 50% through proactive quality monitoring.
- Productized AI-generated data quality scorecards and trust scores, giving data consumers confidence indicators for critical enterprise assets.
- Partnered with stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize by business value and risk, and drive MDM, lineage, retention, and cataloging programs end-to-end.
- Owned full product backlog and governance standards; evaluated and onboarded vendors across privacy, security, compliance, and AI-readiness within budget.
- Monitored governance KPIs; mentored POs, BAs, and team members on best practices and tooling.
Manager Data Products (Cornerstone Enterprise Data Platform)
Impetus Technologies, American Express
10.2015 - 04.2021
- Architected a scalable, metadata-driven data ingestion framework integrating 10+ diverse data systems, accelerating analytical data availability to market.
- Partnered with LOBs and use-case teams to translate business data needs into platform strategies, driving adoption of existing assets and onboarding new sources.
- Built Python/Unix automation frameworks for pre- and post-migration data validation, cutting anomaly detection time and improving data reliability across environments.
- Established enterprise data quality rules, thresholds, and metrics — resolving critical inconsistencies and ensuring data availability for key business processes.
- Drove release planning and cross-team coordination across engineering, design, and infra; managed backlog, Agile ceremonies, and stakeholder engagement.
- Spearheaded KPI and metric development to track platform performance and accelerate resolution of data quality issues across lines of business.
Lead Data Quality Analyst (Data & Analytics Platform)
Cognizant Technologies, eBay Inc
02.2015 - 10.2015
- Elevated data quality for eBay’s Global Brand Campaign by enforcing completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness standards across analytics pipelines.
- Built a Python/Unix automated Data Validation Framework, streamlining quality checks and reducing manual testing effort across data integrity workflows.
- Conducted root cause analysis on data quality failures; communicated corrective actions to stakeholders and closed defects within SLA.
Quality Assurance Project Lead (Visa Checkout)
RS Software Ltd, VSA Inc.
05.2011 - 01.2015
- Led ETL QA for Visa Checkout's digital wallet platform, ensuring data quality standards across functional, integration, regression, load, and UAT test cycles.
- Aligned business requirements with ETL/ELT architecture strategies, reducing rework and improving delivery predictability for payment data pipelines.
Lead Software Developer (Basel II Capital Reporting)
Tech Mahindra, Barclays Card
12.2006 - 04.2011
- Engineered a robust Ab Initio ETL framework to meet Basel II Capital Solution requirements, delivering accurate credit risk treatment and regulatory reporting.
- Designed data validation and publication jobs loading into Teradata staging layers; authored technical documentation to ensure long-term maintainability.
Education
Master’s in Computer Application -
Utkal University
07.2006
Skills
- Data-driven decision-making
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Proficient in Agile practices
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Performance Metrics & KPI Tracking
- Product Strategy & Roadmap Development
- Data Management & Governance
- AI-Powered Metadata Management
- Automated Data Cataloging (Alation)
- AI-Driven Data Quality (Anomalo)
- Enterprise Data Risk Management
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Data Analytics and Reporting
- ETL Data Integration, Kafka
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Snowflake, Teradata, Oracle
- Unix, Shell Scripting, Python
- SQL, NoSQL Databases
- Tableau, Business Intelligence
- Ab Initio, Informatica
- Alation, Anomalo, BIGID, Manta
- Jira and ServiceNow proficiency
- Release planning
- Business analysis
- Product backlog management
- Roadmap development
Certification
- Product Management Program – Cornell University
- Professional Scrum Product Owner – Scrum.org
- Technology Leadership Program – Cornell University
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – Amazon Web Services
- Certified Scaled Agilist – SAFe
Languages
English
Hindi
Odia
Timeline
Principal Product Owner (Enterprise Data Management & Governance)
Discover Financial Services
04.2021 - Current
Manager Data Products (Cornerstone Enterprise Data Platform)
Impetus Technologies, American Express
10.2015 - 04.2021
Lead Data Quality Analyst (Data & Analytics Platform)
Cognizant Technologies, eBay Inc
02.2015 - 10.2015
Quality Assurance Project Lead (Visa Checkout)
RS Software Ltd, VSA Inc.
05.2011 - 01.2015
Lead Software Developer (Basel II Capital Reporting)
Tech Mahindra, Barclays Card
12.2006 - 04.2011
Master’s in Computer Application -
Utkal University
Presidents Award 2025
President's Award 2025 (Discover's Highest Honor) — Recognized for excellence in enterprise data management framework design and governance, delivering transformative impact across Discover's data ecosystem.